Titley arthur (8 Ergebnisse)

hardback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. hardback, octavo, red cloth lettered gilt to a faded spine. The binding remains tight, foxing to the edges and scattered to the text. Brief gift inscription to a previous onwer, the body of text unmarked. Illustrated, xvii + 290pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. The boards are shelf rubbed and edge worn with age related marks. There is a previous owner's inscription within the front board as well as the back board. Internally clean and tightly bound. The diagram after the last page is torn and creased. Complete with 284 pages. Reprint. This is a Memorial Volume.[B.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. …

Zustand: New. In English.

8vo., First Edition, with photographs; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Offprinted from the Transactions of the Newcomen Society Vol. XXVIII. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1934 1st edition 2nd impression. Red cloth bords with bumped corners and spine faded. No incsriptions or other markings. Text and diagrams clear and bright with large fold-out family tree intact and in very good condittion. Some foxing to prelims and edges.

Cloth. Zustand: VG-. 2nd Impression. Remains the best study of Richard Trevithick steam & mining engineer, looking at all aspects of his work including his time in South America. 280pp, illustrated. Contents VG, slight age toning to paper. Original red cloth boards, spine sunned, slight marking and fraying to edges.…

In-8 - perc. éd. XI, 290 pp., nomb. pl. h. t.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - To mark the centenary of Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) H. W Dickinson and Arthur Titley published a fascinating book on the engineer and his work. They succeed in producing a work which appeals to the scientist, the historian and the general reader, without feeling obliged to over-simplify the technical details. Today best remembered for his early railway locomotive, Trevithick worked on a wide range of projects, including mines, mills, dredging machinery, a tunnel under the Thames, military engineering, and prospecting in South America. The book and other centenary activities helped to restore Trevithick's rather neglected reputation as a pioneering engineer of the Industrial Revolution, although his difficult personality and financial failures caused him to be overshadowed by his contemporaries such as Robert Stephenson and James Watt. The book places his achievements in their historical context, and contains many illustrations of his inventions.…