bridges theory practice architecture section von hann james (2 Ergebnisse)

Collection of 61 of 66 plates including: Westminster Timber Bridge 'June 22nd 1738 This is the Drawing and design of the Superstructure of the Bridge agreed to be built Cross the Thames from the Woolstaple in the the Parish of St Margt. Westminster to the oppsite Shore in the County of Surry as Mention and referd to in and by the Contract this day Signd by us. James King. Jos: Ayloffe J Barnarde Nat. Blackerby.'; Plans for Hutcheson Brudge and its Toll House, Details of the Bridge at Market Street Philadelphia; Plans of Wellesley Bridge, Limerick; Newcastle and Carlisle Railway. Bridge over the River Tyne at Scotswood; London and Croydon Railway. Bridge on Road from Norwood to Bromley; . . Quarter black leather over brown cloth covered boards. , 26 x 17 cms Boards and spine detached, missing plates 28 - 30 and plates 51 - 52, toning at some folds, other plates still clean, approximately six plates torn with a complete split of one section of folding plate 60, many edges ragged, plate 64a loose from binding, poor condition/disbound.

London, John Weale, 1839. Royal8vo. 2 Contemp. modest hcalf. With the orig. printed frontwrappers pasted on frontboards. Stamp on title-pages. 2 engraved title-pages. VIII,80,88,72140 pp., 1 engraved plate. Platevolume with 59 engraved plates as belonging to vol. I (numbered between 1-103), mostly large and multiple-folded. Plates with scattered brownspots.