Peter cross rudkin (12 risultati)

paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 159 pages. 11.69x8.27x0.36 inches. In Stock.

Fine. First edition. Paperback: laminated colour photo-illustrated card wrappers (Happisburgh lighthouse to front). 168pp, quarto. With 180 b&w photos and illustrations in the text, and 5 maps at start of each county section (Cambs, Essex, Lincolmshire, Norfolk and Suffolk). Detailed text, including coastal infrastructure, navigation and drainage, canals, bridges, roads and railways. Fine clean copy.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. ' Engineer Of Many Splendid And Useful Works'. Pictorial boards.Well Illustrated and with maps.Fine.

Glazed Boards. Condizione: VG. 1st. Heavily illustrated account of the life and works of the first great Civil Engineer. 208pp. VG clean copy in glazed boards. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 208 pages with 112 illustrations including maps (some colour) : 28 cm. John Rennie was a leading civil engineer in Great Britain and Ireland for thirty years from the canal mania of the 1790s to his death in 1821. As well as canals, he designed bridges, drained extensive fenlands, planned ports and harbours, naval dockyards and sea defences, all the while continuing the millwrighting that was his original profession. Dedicated to his work, he reported on more than 200 separate projects, providing solutions that were both innovative and thorough. He built the longest cast-iron span in the world, and his Waterloo Bridge in London has been praised as the finest masonry arch bridge. The Bell Rock Lighthouse that he designed is now the oldest working, sea-swept lighthouse in the world. This biography of Rennie is the product of extensive research into the reports that his clerks copied into thirteen large bound volumes now held at the Institution of Civil Engineers, the masses of working documents that his descendants donated to the National Library of Scotland, the Boulton & Watt papers at the Library of Birmingham, and contemporary mentions of him by colleagues and in newspapers.…

Glazed Boards. Condizione: Fine. 1st. Papers presented at the 6th Early Railways Conference in 2015, this time covering mainline railways before 1840. 308pp, well illustrated. Fine copy in glazed boards. Rare.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. xxxii, 743pp. Unused book with no inscriptions or other markings. Only fault is a small feint mark on fore edge else fine. This is a heavy book 1.6Kg additional postage charges may be required depending on your location. I have all three volumes in this set the other two are also advertised individually. I will offer a 10% discount on the book prices if you want to buy the complete set. Please contact me for details.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. Presents biographical details of nearly 800 engineers of the Victorian era (1830-1890) - golden age of engineering. This book outlines the lives of these engineers and lists the works for which they were responsible, and provides indexes of names and places. It is suitable for architects with an interest in engineering history.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. Presents biographical details of nearly 800 engineers of the Victorian era (1830-1890) - golden age of engineering. This book outlines the lives of these engineers and lists the works for which they were responsible, and provides indexes of names and places. It is suitable for architects with an interest in engineering history.…

N.A. Condizione: New. ISBN:9780727735041.