No author. The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. CXLIII- from January to June 1927. London; 1927; 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 Royal mail twin-screw motor liner "Alcantara" (Harland and Wolff, builders and engineers), with ills.; the Cardington airship shed and mooring tower, with ills.; Girardot Railway, Colombia-Kitson-Meyer locomotive, with double page supplement with plans and figures; 20,000 kilowatt turbo alternator at the Schiehaven power station, Rotterdam (C.A. Parsons and Co., engineers), with double page supplement with plans and fig.; railway and urban improvements at Piccadilly Circus (Mr. H.H. Dalrymple-Hay, engineer), with plans; new switchgear works of the Oerlikon Company, with ills.; the manufacture of welded boiler drums at the works of Thyssen and Co., with ills.; the Reid-MacLeod steam turbine locomotive (the North British Locomotive Company), with ills.; steamships and steam marine engineering in 1926, with ills.; index; XVI, 700 pp. Former library copy. [26376]
No author. The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. XC- from July to December 1900. London; 1900; 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 Paris exhibition- express locomotive, Prussian Railways, with a folding, woodengraved, view of the locomotive; four-cylinder compound locomotive, Chemin de Fer du Nord (Mm. du Bosquet and de Glehn, engineers), with double page supplement with plans and fig.; plan of the Panama Canal, showing the mean-level dividing lock system; the Uganda Railway, with ills.; six-coupled goods locomotive, South-Eastern and Chatham Railway (Mr. Harry S. Wainwright, Ashford, engineer), with plans and ill.; Bradford water supply- new works (Mr. james Watson, Bradford, engineer), with double page supplement with ills.; Great Northern Railway- new line at Nottingham (Mr. A. Ross, King's Cross, engineer), with ills.; the Paris exhibition- compound express engine, Eastern Railway of France, with a folding, woodengraved, view of the engine; Lugansk locomotive works, South Russia, with ills.; index; XVI, 652 pp. Former library copy. [26196]
No author. Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. CXXV- from January to June 1928. London; 1929; 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 Danish motor train-ferry "Körsör", with ills.; the port of Boston, Tidewater terminal, with ills.; machinery of the twin-screw motorship "Greystoke Castle" (constructed by the North Eastern Marine Engineering Company, engineers, Wallsend-on-Tyne), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; extension of the Royal Edward dock at Avonmouth, with ills.; the Sydney Harbour Bridge (J.J.C. Bradfield, chief engineer), with fig.; 4-8-4 type locomotive for the Canadian National Railways (constructed by the Canadian locomotive company, KIngston, Ontario), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; the post office tube railway, London (Mr. A.M. Sillar, consulting engineer Westminster), with ills.; the Carquinez Strait Cantilever Bridge, California, with ills.; the Napier-Lion series VII B., aero-engine for the Schneider Trophy Race (constructed by Messrs. D. Napier and Son, engineers, London), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; the failure of the St. Francis dam, Los Angeles, California, with ills. and fig.; extensive index; complete with one page and two page enclosures; XXX, 822 pp. Former library copy. Leaves dampstained at lower parts, some of the double page enclosures stuck together. Cover slightly worn. [26129]
Maw, W.H. & Raworth, B. Alfred (ed.).
Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. C.- from July to December, 1915.
London; 1915; 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 St. Lawrence wire-rope works, Newcastle-on-Tyne (M.J. Mitchell, Moncrieff, engineers, Newcastle-on-Tyne), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; military rolling-stock on the South African railways, with ills.; locomotive (2-8-2) type fitted with the Austin trailing-truck (constructed by the Lima locomotive corporation, Lima, Ohio), with double page enclosure with ills.; the Highland and Agricultural Society's Trials, i.a. motor-plough and petrol-tractors, with ills.; wharf construction at Balboa, on the Panama Canal, with ills.; tender of goods locomotive for the Hull and Barnsley railway (constructed from the designs of Mr. M. Stirling & by Messrs. Kitson and Co., Leeds), with plans and fig.; extensive index; complete with one-page and two-page enclosures; XX, 684 pp.
Former library copy. Leaves somewhat dampstained, enclosures uncut. Binding a trifle worn.
[26025]Maw, W.H. & Raworth, B. Alfred (ed.). Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. CI- from January to June, 1916. London; 1916; 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. : Spanish torpedo-boat destroyers of the "Bustamante" class (constructed by the Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval, Cartagena), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; general arrangement of the geared-turbine propelling machinery of the federal liner "Northumberland" (constructed by the Wallsend slipway and engineering company, Wallsend-on-Tyne), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; cranes and gantries at the works of the Rotterdam Dockyard Company (constructed by the Haarlemsche Machinefabriek and Rotterdamsche Machinefabriek Braat, Rotterdam), with double page enclosure with ills., plans and fig.; the Paris motor-buses in war service , the Schneider chassis and engine, with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; quadruple-srew liner "Lafayette" of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (constructed by the Société Anonyme des Chantiers et Ateliers de Provence, Port de Bouc), with ills.; the Pivot Pier of Glebe Island Bridge, Port Jackson, New South Wales, with double page enclosure with ills.; the Brazilian diesel-engine propelled submarine dépôt ship "Ceara", with ills.; extensive index; complete with one-page and two-page enclosures; XIX, 636 pp. Former library copy. [26027]
Maw, W.H. & Raworth, B. Alfred (ed.). Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. CV- from January to June, 1918. London; 1918; 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 Sciotoville bridge over the Ohio river (Mr. Gustav Lindenthal, New York), with ills.; the Marshall chair for crippled workers; 180- H.P. Mercedes engine and Albatross scout biplane, with ills.; the world's largest shipyard at Hog Island on the Delaware River, with ills.; the Derwent dam, the Derwent Valley water-works (Mr. Edward Sandeman, London), with ills.; coal-handling plant at the Saltley gas works, Birmingham (constructed by Messrs. Babcock and Wilcox, London), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; the national physical laboratory, Teddington, with ills.; tractors on bad roads or land, with ills.; the Jurassic ironstones of the United Kingdom, with ills.; extensive index; complete with one page and two page enclosures; XX, 740 pp. Former library copy. [26106]
Maw, W.H. & Raworth, B. Alfred (ed.). Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. LXXXVII- from January to June, 1909. London; 1909; 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 Siamese revenue cruiser "Suriya Monthon" (constructed by Messrs. J.I. Thornycroft and Co., Southampton), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; the launch of His Majesty's battleship "Vanguard" (constructed by Messrs. Vickers, Sons and Maxim, Barrow-in-Furness), with ills.; the Brazilian battleship "São Paulo" (constructed by Messrs. Vickers, Sons and Maxim, Barrow-in-Furness", with ills.; the New Orient Australian mail T.-S.S. "Orsova" (constructed by Messrs. John Brown and Co., Sheffield and Clydebank), with ills. and double page enclosure; twelve wheeled duplex-tank locomotive, Nitrate Railways Company, Chili (constructed by the Yorkshire Engine Company, Sheffield), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; the manufacture of armour at Beardmore's Parkhead Steel Works, Glasgow, with ills.; 70-horse-power "pipe" 8-cylinder motor for aeroplanes (the London motor garage company, London), with fig.; the Italian submersible boat "Otaria", with a view of the ship; the New Graving-Docks at Malta (Colonel Sir Edward Raban, director of works & Messrs. S. Pearson and Son, Westminster, contractors), with double page enclosure with ills.; the Argentine gunboat "Parano"(constructed by Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Elswick) with a view of the ship; the Canadian ice-breaking and passenger steamer "Earl Grey" (constructed by Messrs. Vickers, Sons and Maxim, Barrow-in Furness) with a view of the vessel; extensive index; one page and two page enclosures included; XLII, 868 pp. Former library copy. [25996]
Maw, W.H. & Raworth, B. Alfred (ed.). Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. XCVIII- from July to December, 1914. London; 1914; 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. : four-cylinder compound (2-8-2 type) locomotive for the Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean railway at the Lyons exhibition (constructed by the Société Française de Constructions Mécaniques, Denain), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; the twin-screw geared-turbine-driven steamers "Ciudad de Buenos Aires" and "Ciudad de Monte Video", with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; ice-breaking railway-train ferry for Canada (constructed by Messrs. Cammell, Laird and Co., Birkenhead), with ills.; the Manhattan Bridge over the East River at New York, with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; the calcium carbide factory at Odda, Norway, with ills.; the Canadian customs cruiser "Margaret" (constructed by Messrs. John I. Thornycroft and Co., Southampton), with ills. and double page enclosure with plans and fig.; compound articulated 2-8-8-8-2 type locomotive for the Erie railroad (constructed by the Baldwin locomotive works, Philadelphia), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; extensive index; complete with one-page and two-page enclosures; XLVI, 774 pp. Former library copy. [26023]
Maw, W.H. & Dredge, J. (ed.).
Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. LXXX- from July to December, 1905.
London; 1905; 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.
[25969]Maw, W.H. & Dredge, J. (ed.).
Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. LXXVIII-from July to December, 1904.
London; 1904; 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).
[25967]Maw, W.H. & Dredge, J. (ed.).
Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. LXXVII- from January to June, 1904.
London; 1904; 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.
[25968]Maw, W.H. & Dredge, J. (ed.).
Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. LXXII- from July to December 1901.
London; 1901; 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.
[25937]Maw, W.H. & Dredge, J. (ed.). Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. LXXV- from January to June 1903. London; 1903; 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. [25965]
Maw, W.H. & Dredge, J. (ed.). Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. LXXVI-from July to December, 1903. London; 1903; 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. [25966]
Mann, L'Abbé.
Encyclopédie des enfans, ou abrégé de toutes les sciences, refondu, beaucoup augmenté et corrigé dans toutes ses parties, afin de le rendre propre à l'usage des Écoles des Pays Catholiques.
Bruxelles; 1807; B. Le Francq; leather with gilt lettered spine; 13th, revised, edition; woodengravings; 11x17 cm.; VIII, 160 pp.
Engraving and some words page 151 damaged, errasing with ball-point. Outer margins occasionally vaguely waterstained. Cover with slight wear, mainly along extremities. Name, in ink, on first endpaper.
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