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$40.00
1t9a/6

Modern Tunnel Practice: Illustrated by Examples Taken From Actual Recent Work in the United States and in Foreign Countries


STAUFFER, DAVID MCNEELY

Super octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, blind rule to board edges, viii + 314pp, illus/diagrams, VG- (moderate to heavy bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate chafing & surface loss to spine & boards, moderate to heavy tanning/soiling to page edges, light tanning & soiling to eps, moderate cracking to gutters, moderate creasing & chipping to some page edges, sm ex-libris label to top edge of title page, occasional pencil annotation & tanning to pages)

PUBLISHER: The Engineering News Publishing Company 1911

KEYWORDS: geology tunnels construction design tunnelling engineering

$25.00
xxqbg194368

The Story of Telford: The Rise of Civil Engineering


GIBB, Sir ALEXANDER

LACKS D/W, super octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Alexander Maclehose & Co 1935

KEYWORDS: Thomas Telford history biographies memoir civil engineering

$25.00
xxqbk194378

The Eighth Wonder


N/A

Super octavo hardcover (VG-) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: B.F. Sturtevant Co. 1927

KEYWORDS: new york new jersey holland tunnel transport technology history engineering tunnels tunneling civil transportation public works infrastructure america american

$22.50
xxqbk194387

The Sylmar Tunnel Disaster


ZAVARETTO, JANETTE

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Everest House 1978

KEYWORDS: sylmar tunnel los angeles california californian america american explosion disaster engineering tunnel tunnels janette zavaretto wally lockheed

$15.00
xxqcc194395

An Irish Navvy: The Diary of an Exile


MACAMHLAIGH, DONALL & IREMONGER, VALENTIN

Super octavo softcover (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1966

KEYWORDS: donall macamhlaigh irish navvy valentin iremonger digging tunneling civil engineering technology memoir ireland

$40.00
1t17a/8

Lives of the Engineers; the Steam-Engine; Boulton and Watt


SMILES, SAMUEL

Octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt rule & black rule to front board, frontispiece, viii + 416pp, illus, VG (light bruising & moderate scuffing/chipping to extrems, moderate discolouration to spine, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, sm ex-libris plate to front pastedown, moderate foxing & water staining to prelims)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1874

KEYWORDS: history engineering Matthew Boulton James Watt steam engine biographies

$90.00
1t17a/9

Thomas Brassey: Railway Builder


WALKER, CHARLES

Octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, viii + 183pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light minor foxing to pages throughout) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping/scuffing to edges, light fading & chafing/surface loss to spine, light chafing & soiling/tanning)

PUBLISHER: Frederick Muller 1969

KEYWORDS: transport history rail railways trains Thomas Brassey civil engineering

$50.00
1t17a/11

Brindley at Wet Earth Colliery: An Engineering Study


BANKS, A G & SCHOFIELD, R B

Octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 156pp, illus/photos, VG+ (v sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1968

KEYWORDS: engineering James Brindley history water Manchester mine pumping operation Clifton Wet Earth Colliery 18th eighteenth century industrialisation industrialization

$40.00
1t17a/14

Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers


SMILES, SAMUEL

Sm octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, blind stamp decoration to boards, xiv + 342pp, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, light staining to boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, light foxing & soiling to prelims & terminals, prev. owner's name in ink to full title page- historical)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1863

KEYWORDS: Samuel Smiles history iron tools industrial industrialisation industrialization engineering

$45.00
1t17a/15

Shield and Compressed Air Tunneling


HEWETT, B H M & JOHANNESSON, S

Super octavo, dark blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, x + 465pp, illus/photos, folding diagrams- not counted presumed all present, VG (light scuffing to extrems, minor chipping to spine extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, numerous ownership ink stamps to eps & prelims, moderate cracking to rear gutter, minor creasing to some page edges)

PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1922

KEYWORDS: civil engineering industrial tunnels tunneling shield compressed air construction

$100.00
1t17a/16

Memoir of the Life of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel


BEAMISH, RICHARD

Super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, black rule & decoration to boards, frontispiece, xvi + 359pp, illus, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing & chipping/fraying to extrems, moderate to heavy soiling spine & boards, moderate to heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, heavy cracking to gutters- boards sl shaky, light to moderate staining to eps, sm ink numerals in ink to front pastedown, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, light to moderate foxing & soiling to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts 1862

KEYWORDS: civil engineering biographies memoir Sir Marc Isambard Brunel history engineers

$85.00
1t17a/17

Innovation and the Rise of the Tunnelling Industry


WEST, GRAHAM

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 355pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light creasing & chafing, light tanning to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1988

KEYWORDS: first editions history tunnelling civil engineering industry

$45.00
1t17a/20

Practical Tunnel Driving


RICHARDSON, HAROLD W & MAYO, ROBERT S

Super octavo, dark blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, printed rear eps, frontispiece, xviii + 436pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light chafing/scuffing to spine, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light crayon markings to half title page & verso of, light foxing to full title page & frontispiece)

PUBLISHER: MacGraw-Hill Book Company 1941

KEYWORDS: civil engineering tunnels tunnelling construction design surveying

$175.00
1t17a/22

Tunnelling History and My Own Involvement


HARDING, Sir HAROLD

SIGNED & INSCRIBED, WITH HOLOGRAPH LETTER FROM AUTHOR LOOSELY ENCLOSED, octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispice, xiv + 258pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl foxing & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Golder Associates 1981

KEYWORDS: signed tunnelling history tunnels tunnel building digging civil engineering geology Sir Harold Harding

$68.50
1t17a/24

Notes on Cylinder Bridge Piers and the Well System of Foundations


NEWMAN, JOHN

Octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp lettering & rule to front board, viii + 136pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light chafing to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: E & F N Spon 1893

KEYWORDS: civil engineering cylinder bridge piers well systems foundations construction concrete

$40.00
1t17a/25

James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography (Popular Edition)


SMILES, SAMUEL (Ed)

Sm octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine & front board, frontispiece, xx + 450pp, illus, VG (sl bruising to extrems, light to moderate fading & sioling to spine, light soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, heavy cracking to some gutters)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1897

KEYWORDS: engineering engineers James Nasmyth autobiography memoir history

$100.00
1t17a/26

Old London Bridge


HOME, GORDON

Super octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering & rule to spine, deckled page edges, frontispiece, xviii + 382pp, illus, VG (light scuffing to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, light cracking to some gutters, light foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w, G+ (heavy creasing & chipping to spine & edges with some loss- heavy adhesive repairs to internal sides, moderate soiling & chafing with some staining also)

PUBLISHER: John Lane / The Bodley Head 1931

KEYWORDS: London Bridge civil engineering history construction medieval

$40.00
1t17a/27

Tunneling in Rock


WAHLSTROM, ERNEST E

Super octavo, green cloth boards, white lettering to spine & front board, xiii + 250pp, illus/photos, vG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl fading to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light chafing & wrinkling)

PUBLISHER: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company 1973

KEYWORDS: geology rock tunnels tunnelling civil engineering construction geotechnical enginnering science

$40.00
1t17a/28

The History of Tunnelling: Underground Workings Through the Ages


SANDSTROM, GOSTA E

Octavo, brown/orange buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xii + 427pp, illus, VG+ (light scuffing & bruising to spine & extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning & chafing, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: Barrie and Rockliff 1963

KEYWORDS: history civil engineering tunnels tunnelling construction

$40.00
1t20a/2

Lives of the Engineers: The Steam Engine, Boulton and Watt


SMILES, SAMUEL

Octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt decoration & black rule/decoration to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, viii + 416pp, illus, VG (light bruising to extrems, light to moderate fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & moderate soiling to page edges, light foxing to prelims, occasional minor cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1874

KEYWORDS: civil engineering engineers Matthew Boulton James Watt biographies history construction design steam engines

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