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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback, nette staat, 253 pagina's.

(X) 287 p. Paperback (Mooi exemplaar.).

Condizione: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 2 vols: Pp. (1) xv, 520; (2) xv, 582. Illustrated. Bound in cloth covers with calf spines. Spines scuffed and worn and spine of first vol. is split at both edges. Internally very good. Good overall.

Unframed Print. Condizione: Very Good. A single sheet print, image area approx. 18 x 29 cms. The illustrations found in leading architectural journals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as The Builder, Building News, and The Architect are masterpieces of visual craftsmanship. These illustrations capture the elegance, intricacy, and stylistic flair of the period's architecture. Rich in ornamental detail and atmospheric depth, they reflect not only the buildings themselves but the artistic sensibilities and design discourse of their age. THIS IS AN ORIGINAL PAGE FROM THE JOURNAL, PRINTED AT THE DATE SHOWN IN THE TITLE, NOT A REPRINT OR COPY. Category: Builder & Building News; PRINTS : Buildings & Places; Unframed Prints : Old. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. …

Paperback. Condizione: New. Print on Demand. This book offers a detailed account of the design, construction, and operation of London's Metropolitan District Railway. This was one of the earliest underground railways in the world and its evolution is placed in the wider context of urban development in Victorian London. The author provides extensive and well-illustrated technical information on the original construction as well as subsequent extensions and modifications to the line and its stations. The role of the Metropolitan District Railway in the growth of London's suburbs and the challenges of working and maintaining a busy underground railway in a densely populated urban setting are also examined. This book provides a valuable record of the engineering achievements involved in the construction of a pioneering and iconic piece of Victorian infrastructure. It will be of interest to urban historians, railway enthusiasts, and anyone interested in the impact of railways on urban growth in the 19th century. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Quarter leather and paper-covered marbled boards. Folio. 868 pp. 1" tear along one spine edge at foot of spine, edge wear, cracked inside front cover but tight, crease on front free endpaper, internals very nice except for one bracket in red ink, Good Plus. Content includes articles, photographs, and drawings of ships, locomotives, mining machinery, engines, bridges, canals, and the like. Much about the Dusseldorf Exhibition.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. XXXvi pp + 854 pages with full page and double page engravings and smaller illustrations n the text, plus photo plates of factories and architectural buildings, lots on steam trains and cotton machinery, other industrial machines, contents excellent later rebound in a crimson cloth with embossed label on the spine, large heavy folio. 1894.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. XXXii pp + 848 pages with full page and double page engravings and smaller illustrations n the text, plus photo plates of factories & the machinery, maritime/naval, electric lighting stations, etc, lots on steam trains and cotton machinery, other industrial machines, contents excellent later rebound in a crimson cloth with embossed label on the spine, large heavy folio. 1895.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. XXXii pp + 862 pages with full page and double page engravings and smaller illustrations n the text, plus photo plates of factories & the machinery, maritime/naval, electric lighting stations, etc, lots on steam trains and cotton machinery, other industrial machines, contents excellent later rebound in a crimson cloth with embossed label on the spine, large heavy folio. 1895.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Prelims and 636 pages, this copy has the supplementary 14 page index for the year beginning 1883 bound in before contents. The volume is newly rebound in crimson cloth with a gilt embossed label on the spine, contents very good with astounding quality engravings of engines, bridges, mechanical devices to almost every page AND with 20 fold out engraved plates. Heavy folio.*Subjects included in this volume 6 months issues are; Lots on Electrics & the latest invented machinery with patent details, etc, The Port of Calcutta various aspects of its construction, Apparatus for Colliery machinery, Torpedo Boat boilers and other shipping engines, inc the Yonkers 8th Avenue Ferry and Bridge (fold-out plate also) with the engineers names, ventilation machines and industrial cold fridges, fold out plate of the side elevation of a Gondola car on the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, Paddle Steamer "Midlothian" Granton and Burntisland Ferry North British Railway with a large folding diagram of the side elevations, lots of news reports of incidents and world wide news extracts or brief reports of weekly occurrences, etc, etc.…

Hardcover. Condizione: befriedigend. Hldr. der Zeit xlviii 910 Seiten, 4°. Construction photos and Diagrams of the "Olympic Class" Liners. White Star Line. Schwesterschiff der Titanic, Ecken, Kapitale und Gelenke bestoßen, Stempel auf Titelblatt, Titelblatt etwas fleckig.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. XXXii pp prelims and 676 pages. The volume is newly rebound in crimson cloth with a gilt embossed label on the spine, contents very good and binding clean and sturdy with astounding quality engravings of engines, bridges, mechanical devices to almost every page AND with 28 fold out engraved plates of Steam locomotives, Steam Ships engines and diagrams, The South African Goldfield's in a series of illustrated articles + The Statue of Liberty (its making, called The Bartholdi Statue).*Other Subjects included in this volume 6 months issues are; Lots on Electrics Steam and pumps & the latest invented machinery with patent details, etc. Colliery machinery, Torpedo Boat details and other shipping engines, etc, etc.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Issues bound in half leather. Book has some moderate wear and scuffing, half inch of scuffing with fraying at top of spine, some scuffs to spine, some dogeared pages in front. otherwise a nice copy, clean and presentable, with a solid binding and clean pages. Photos on request. Overseas shipping would be prohibitive.…

; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles/ reviews in this volume i.a. : 10,000-H.-P. compound three-crank tandem rolling-mill engine at the Liège exhibition (constructed by the Société Anonyme, John Cockerill, engineers, Seraing), with double paged enclosure with plans and fig.; Williamsburg Bridge over the east River, New York (Mr. L.L. Buck), with double paged enclosure with plans and fig.; erosive effect of discharge from the Assouan dam, with ill.; the steam-turbine department at the Hartlepool engine works of Messrs. Richardsons, Westgarth and Co., with double paged enclosure with ills.; the launch of H.M. armoured cruiser "Natal" (constructed by Messrs. Vickers, Sons and Maxim, Barrow-in Furness), with a view of the vessel; Royal train for the Prince of Wales's tour in India (constructed at the Lilloah Works of the East Indian Railway Company), with double paged enclosure with plans and fig.; the New Engineering Works at Huddersfield of Messrs. J. Hopkinson and Co., with double paged enclosure with ills.; the salvage of the dredger "walter Bibby", with ills.; the bridge over the river Zambesi, Rhodesia (designed by Mr. George A. Hobson, London), with ills.; extensive index; double paged enclosures included; XL, 884 pp. Former library copy, with ticket at frontcover and a few stamps on title page and pastedown. …

; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles/ reviews in this volume i.a. : 80-ton floating crane for the Santos harbour works (constructed by the Royal Dutch Forge Company, Leyden, Holland), with double paged enclosure; the New York subway, with double paged enclosure, plans and figures; the temporary inclines on the Kikuyu escarpment, Uganda railway, with double paged enclosure and ills.; the gun-mounting department of the naval construction works of Messrs. Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Barrow-in-Furness, with double paged enclosure and ills.; the turbine-propelled passenger steamer "King Edward" (constructed by Messrs. William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton), with ill.; suction hopper dredger, Seine navigation (constructed by the Société Anonyme des Anciens Etablissements Satre, Lyons and Arles), with ills.; Salford electricity works, with double paged enclosure and figures; compound goods locomotive for the Prussian State Railways, with double paged enclosure and plans; the Whitehead torpedo works at Fiume, with double paged enclosure; launch of the H.M. armoured cruiser "King Alfred", with double paged enclosure; extensive index; complete with 22 double page enclosures; XXXIX, 886 pp. Former library copy. Binding slightly loosening. …

; Office for Publication and Advertisements; cloth; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles/ reviews in this volume i.a. : windmills at the Royal Agricultural Society's ground, Ealing, with ills.; the Hotchkiss rifle-calibre automatic machine gun, with ills.; the works of the British Electric Car Co., Trafford Park, Manchester, with ills.; the Paris automobile exhibition, with figures; five-ton steam wagon for West Africa (constructed by Messrs. Simpson and Bibby, engineers, Manchester), with plans and ills.; chassis of the Beaufort motor car (constructed by the Beaufort Motor Company, engineers, London), with ills.; fast passenger locomotive for the New York Central and Hudson River railroad (constructed by the American Locomotive Company, Schenectady), with ills and fig.; the Dover harbour works, the admirality Pier extension (Messrs. Coode, Son and Matthews, London), with ills.; the Crystal Palace motor-car show, with plans and ills.; Yarrow boilers for the Chilian battleship "Constitucion" (constructed by Messrs. Yarrow & Co., engineers, London), with ills.; the Whitechapel and Bow railway, bridge over Campbell-Road, with ills.; extensive index; XXXVIII, 880 pp. Former library copy. 30 Double paged enclosures not included.…

; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles/ reviews in this volume i.a. : the Midland railway company's harbour at Heysham, Lancashire, details of monoliths for roundheads and their wing walls (with double paged enclosure, with ill. and fig.); express passenger locomotive for the London and South-Western railway (constructed at the company's works, Nine Elms), with double paged enclosure with plans and fig.; self-propelled chemical fire-engine (constructed by the Wolseley tool and motor-car company, Adderley Park, Birmingham), with view and fig.; corridor carriage for the Cambrian railways (constructed at the company's works, Oswestry, from the designs of Mr. Herbert E. Jones), with double paged enclosure with fig.; microscopic observations on naval accidents, with double paged enclosure with ills.; the German battleship "Deutschland" (constructed at the Germania works, Kiel, of Herr Fr. Krupp), with a view of the ship; locomotives at the St. Louis exhibition (constructed at the Rogers locomotive works, Paterson), with double paged enclosure with ills.; the Italian battleship "Regina Margherita" (constructed by Messrs. Gio. Ansaldo, Armstrong, and Co., engineers and shipbuilders, Sampierdarena), with double paged enclosure with ills.; superstructures on the Tokio metropolitan railway (constructed to the designs of Mr. F. Baltzer, Royal Railway Department, Stettin), with double paged enclosure with fig.; the hydraulic dredger "J. Israel Tarte" (constructed at the Polson Iron Works, Toronto), with ills.; Japanese armoured cruiser "Kasuga", with ills.; aerial wire ropeway for the Carlingford Granite Company, Ireland (Messrs. R. White and Sons, engineers, Widnes), with ills.; Messrs. Beardmore's new shipbuilding and engineering works at Dalmuir on the Clyde, 150-ton crane at the tidal dock (with double paged enclosure with fig.); the twin-screw steamer "Africa" for the Austrian Lloyd's steam navigation company's east African service (with double paged enclosure with ills.); six-coupled compound passenger locomotive for the Portuguese state railway (constructed by Mr. A. Borsig, Tegel), with double paged enclosure with plans); the Folkestone New Pier and Harbour Works (Messrs. Coode, Son and Matthews, London), with ills.; extensive index; 29 double paged enclosures included; XLII, 912 pp. Former library copy, with ticket and a few stamps (title page and pastedown). …

; Office for Publication and Advertisements; cloth; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles/ reviews in this volume i.a. : stamping machine for coke manufacture at Borsigwerk (constructed by the Maschinenfabrik Brinck and Hübner, Mannheim, with plans and fig.; ten-wheel express locomotive for the Glasgow and South-Western railway (constructed from the designs of Mr. James Manson, locomotive superintendent, by the North British Locomotive Co., engineers, Glasgow), with a view of the locomotive; American bridges on the Uganda railway, with ills.; steam lifeboat "Princess of Wales" for Mauritius (constructed by Messrs. John I. Thornycroft and Co., Chiswick), with plans and fig.; arrangement of machinery for T.S.S. "Turbinia", with plans and fig.; the North German Lloyd T.-S.S. "Kaiser Wilhelm II" (constructed by the Stettiner Maschinenbau Actien-Gesellschaft "Vulcan", Bredow, Stettin), with view, tables, fig.; the London, Brighton and Sout-Coast railway, with fig.; double-cylinder steam fire-engine for Newcastle-on-Tyne (constructed by Messrs. Merryweather and Sons, engineers, London), with a view of the steam engine; wire ropeway at Messrs. Willans and Robinson's new boiler works, Queensferry, Flint (constructed by Messrs. Bullivant and Co., London), with ills.; Borsig's Works in Germany, with ills.; Basset atmospheric engine at Denby Colliery, near Derby, with ills.; works of the Universal Tube Company, Chesterfield, with ills.; electric light plan for Dutch torpedo-boats (constructed by the electrotechnische industrie (formerly Willem Smit and Co, Likkerveer), with plans and fig.; extensive index; XL, 886 pp. Former library copy. 26 Double paged enclosures not included. Final pages with slight waterstaining in margins.…

; Office for Publication and Advertisements; cloth; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles/ reviews in this volume i.a. : the electric cable works of Messrs. W.T. Glover and Co., Trafford Park, Manchester (with double paged enclosure with ills.); offshore floating dock for the Reiherstieg Shiffswerfte und Maschinenfabrik, Hamburg (with double paged enclosure with plans and fig.); the cryogenic laboratory at Leiden, with ills.; eight-coupled locomotive for the Queensland Railways (with double paged enclosure with plans and fig.); locomotives at the St. Louis exhibition (constructed at the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia), with double paged enclosure with ills.; the Antwerp water works, with ills.; details of mounting of the 40-in. telescope at the Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, Wisconsin (constructed by Messrs. Warner and Swasey, Cleveland), with double paged enclosure with fig.; the Napier motor-car, with double paged enclosure with plans and fig.; H.M.S. "Bellerophon", floating workshop at Devonport, with ills. and plans; twin-screw cable-laying steamer "Stephan" (constructed by the Stettiner Maschinenbau Actien Gesellschaft "Vulcan", Bredow), with double paged enclosure with plans and fig.; extensive index; 28 double paged enclosures included; XXXVIII, 910 pp. Former library copy. Paper over board backcover occasionally rubbed.…

Hardcover. Condizione: FAIR. Very large bound volume, marbled covers, 556 pages. Ex library. Cover missing from spine, front and rear covers separated from textblock. Binding thread is weakening due to age, so should be used gently. Pages slightly brittle but in very nice condition. HEAVY/OVERSIZE. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Volume 62. Binding firm, interior pages foxed, clean and unmarked. Fold-outs in good shape. Oversize/Overweight: additional postage may apply.

; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfleather with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles/ reviews in this volume i.a. : third-class bogie carriage for the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, with figures and plans; windmills at the Royal Agricultural Society's Ground, Ealing, with ills.; the Dover harbour works, the admirality pier extension (Messrs. Coode, son, and Matthews, London, engineers); fast passenger locomotive for the New York central and Hudson River Railroad (constructed by the American Locomotive Company, Schenectady), with a view of the locomotive; the Britannia Steel Works of Messrs. Dorman, Long and Co., Middlesbrough, with a double page enclosure with ills.; erecting shop, Messrs. Richardsons, Westgarth, and Co.'s Works, Middlesbrough, with ills.; screw steamer for the King's Lynn conservancy board (constructed by Messrs. Allsup and Co., Preston), with ills. and plans; blooming mill at the Röchling Iron and Steel Works, Volklingen-on-the Saar (constructed by the Märkische Maschinenbau Anstalt, Wetter-on-the-Ruhr), with double page enclosure with design plans; the Crystal Palace motor-car show, with ills.; the Hotchkiss .472-in and 37-millimetre automatic machine guns, with ills.; Queen's Engineering Works, Bedford (Messrs. W.H. Allen, Son and Co.), with double page enclosure with ills.; the Russian first-class protective-deck cruiser "Bogatyr", with i.a. a double page enclosure with design plans; factory of the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company, with design plans; index; XXVIII, 880 pp. Former library copy. Spine restored. Leaves a trifle dampstained. …

Pas de couverture. Condizione: Très bon. Québec, Librairie Garneau, 1932, large carte dépliante d'environ 90 X 70 cm, illustrée en couleur, logée dans une pochette de papier imprimé du titre sur l'une des faces. Les textes sont en anglais. La carte est en excellent état, d'une belle fraicheur, avec seulement une déchirure de moins de 4 cm à la marge supérieur et qui a été recollé à la colle ainsi qu'une étrange ligne rougeâtre à la marge gauche. La pochette de papier cependant est en mauvais état montrant diverses traces d'usure, des déchirures, de petits éclats manquants et un certain jaunissement. Il ne s'agit pas d'une carte à l'échelle mais plutôt d'une carte destinée aux touristes.…

Hardcover. 4to. Ex-library, the odd scratch and a little rubbing to corners and covers, tear to one page, o/wise good (no markings to text). B/W photos & illus. Includes detailed illustrations of the salvage equipment used in raising the submarine F-4 of the USN, passenger locomotive (4-4-0) of the Caledonian Railway, a 9000-gallon tender of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the twin-screw motor-ship Abelia, third-class all-steel carrriages for the Egyptian State Railways, the East Asiatic Companys' twin-screw motor-ship Peru, details of locomotives classes K4S and L1S of the Pennsylvania Railroad, express passenger and goods locomotives for the French State Railway etc. 656pp.…