No author. Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. 148. July to December, 1939. London; 1939; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth; 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 Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, with double page enclosure with ills., plans and fig.; the reconstruction of Aldgate East Station, London, passenger transport board, with double page enclosure with plans, ills. and fig.; the Luton works of Messrs. Commer cars, Ltd., with ills.; the Albert Canal, Belgium, connecting the rivers Scheldt and Meuse, with double page enclosure with ills.; the New Wandsworth Bridge, London (Mr. T. Peirson Frank, chief engineer, London County Council), with double page enclosure with ills.; war-service vehicle manufacture, with ills.; machine shops at Wilton-Fijenoord ship repairing yard, Rotterdam, with ills.; the Tottenham works of Messrs. Keith Blackman, Ltd., with ills.; H.M. cruiser "Belfast" (constructed by Messrs. Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Belfast), with a view of the ship; air-raid shelters, New Southgate works, with ill.; extensive index; complete with one page and two page enclosures; XXIII, 734 pp. Former library copy. Leaves dampstained at lower parts, some of the double page enclosures stuck together. Paper over boards lacking. [26138]
No author. The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. LXXXV- from January to June 1898. London; 1898; 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.: Portuguese cruiser "Adamastor" (Messrs. Orlando Brothers, Leghorn, builders and engineers), with a folding, woodengraved, view of the ship; folding map, showing the railways of Japan up to November, 1897; engines of Her Majesty's first-class battleship "Albion" (Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field, Lambeth, engineers), with, i.a., a folding plate with plans and fig.; the Liverpool motor car trials, with ills. and fig.; four cylinder compound passenger engine, London and North-Western Railway (Mr. F.W. Webb, Crewe, engineer), with a folding, woodengraved, plate with a view of the engine, plans and fig.; types of United States warships, with a double page plate with ills.; the Russian oil industry, with ills.; torpedo boats in the United States navy, with a folding plate with plans and fig.; the manufacture of needles- Messrs. H. Milward and Sons'Works, Washford Mills, Redditch, with ills.; s.s. "Bruce" (Messrs. A. and J. Inglis, Point House, Glasgow, engineers), with plans and fig.; Lagos Railway, with ills.; the Haskin Wood Vulcanising Works, Millwall, with ills.; wire wound ordnance- Messrs. Thomas Firth and Sons' Works, Sheffield, with ills.; index; XVI, 616 pp. Former library copy. [26192]
No author. The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. CVI- from July to December 1908. London; 1908; 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.: reconstruction of the Anderton boat lift (J.A. Saner, Weaver Navigation, Northwich, engineer), with, i.a., a double page supplement with plans and fig.; the Great Western Railway Works at Swindon, with ills.; the London and North-Western Railway and Crewe Works, with ills.; new water supply for Monterey, Mexico-South reservoir, with double page supplement with ills.; new waterworks at Selby, with ills.; construction work at the Panama Canal, with ills.; the Newark Engineering Works, Bath, with ills.; the Atlas Locomotive Works (Messrs. Peckett and Sons, Bristol, engineers), with ills.; Harland and Wolff's Works at Southampton, with ills.; South Indian Railway- Egmore Station, Madras, with ills.; index; XVI, 684 pp. Former library copy. Spine ends slightly damaged. [26232]
No author. The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. XCVII- from January to June 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.: four wheels coupled express passenger engine Great Northern Railway (Mr. H.A. Ivatt, Doncaster, engineer), with a double page, woodengraved, view of the engine; four-coupled express locomotive Great Central Railway (Mr. J.G. Robinson, Manchester, engineer), with a double page, woodengraved, view of the locomotive; Elizabeth Bridge Budapest, with ills. and a double page plate; Darracq motor car (G. and J. Weir, Cathcart, engineers), with ill.; the Albula Railway, with ills.; motor racing boats, with ills.; Duff gas producers at William Beardmore and Co.'s Dalmuir Works, with ills.; the Irish Channel steamer "Antrim" (John Brown and Co., Clydebank, builders), with a view of the ship; first-class armoured cruiser "Argyle" on the stocks, with a view of the cruiser; the Troitsky Bridge at St. Petersburg, with plans and fig.; locomotive engine details Great Western Railway (Mr. G.J. Churchward, Swindon, engineer), with double page supplement with plans and fig.; the new works of Graham, Morton and Co., Limited, Leeds, with ills; the Crystal Palace motor car show, with ills.; Austrian battleship "Erzherzog Karl", with double page supplement with a view of the ship; some vehicles at the Paris motor car show, with ills.; index; XVI, 650, XVI pp. Former library copy. [26220]
No author. The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. LXVII- from January to June, 1889. London; 1889; 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.: passenger locomotive, London and South-Western Railway (Mr. W. Adams, engineer), with double page woodengraved view of the locomotive; twin-screw yacht "Ormea" (the Ardrossan shipbuilding company, builders), with folding plate with plans and fig.; Mogul engine, class S.L., Central Pacific Railway (Mr. Francis F. Brown, engineer), with folding plate with plans and fig.; Her Majesty's first-class battle-ship "Benbow", 10,600 tons (constructed by the Thames ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, Millwall), with folding, woodengraved, plate with a view of the ship; construction of the Eiffel Tower (M. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, Paris, engineer), with woodengraved illustrations; Mogul engine, class S.L., Central Pacific Railway, with folding plate with fig. and plans; the Chapin iron ore mine, Michigan, with ills.; triple expansion engines, steamship "Benmore" (the North-Eastern Company, Sunderland and Wallsend-on-Tyne), with double page, woodengraved, ills.; the Antofagasta railway, Bolivia- viaduct over the river Loa (Mr. Edward Woods, engineer, the Horseley Company, Tipton, builders), with a folding plate with a view of the viaduct; Her Majesty's first-class battle ship "Edinburgh", with a folding, woodengraved, plate with a view of the ship; Her Majesty's first-class battle ship "Victoria" (constructed by Armstrong, Mitchell and Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne), with a double page, woodengraved, view of the ship; index; VIII, 560 pp. Former library copy. Spine ends slightly damaged, a few leaves loose(ning). [26145]
No author. Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. CXXXII- from July to December, 1931. London; 1931; 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 mass production of lathes at the works of Messrs. Franz Braun A.-G., Zerbst, Anhalt, with double page enclosure with ills.; wind tunnels of the Royal Aircraft Establishment, with plans and fig.; elevated express highway in the city of New York, with ills.; exhibits at the commercial motor exhibition, with ills.; Vickers supermarine Rolls-Royce racing seaplane, with ill.; 35-knot torpedo boat destroyers for the Canadian government (constructed by Messrs. John I. Thornycroft and Company, engineers and shipbuilders, Southampton), with plans and fig.; the sand-spun pipe works of Messrs. the Staveley coal and iron company, near Chesterfield, with double page enclosure with ills.; the works of Messrs. Cambridge Instrument Company, Cambridge, with double page enclosure with ills.; extensive index; complete with one page and two page enclosures; XXIII, 804 pp. Former library copy. [26136]
N.n..
Twin-screw motor passenger liner "Kungsholm" of the Swedish American Line. Built by the Royal Company "De Schelde" Ltd., Flushing, The Netherlands.
Rotterdam; no year; Wyt; softcover; 24x32 cm.; edited by "Schip en Werf"; ills., figures, diagrams, occasionally folding; 79 pp.
Copy with some waterdamage, mostly at the upper parts.
[37700]N.n..
Gedenkboek 1813-1913. Nederlandsche Handel en Industrie in 1913. Jubileum-uitgave ter gelegenheid van het 100-jarig bestaan van Neêrlands onafhankelijkheid
Rotterdam; 1913; E.de Bont & Zoon. "Niet in den handel". Folio (38,5 x 29 cm); 374 p. Linnen band met vergulde belettering en wapen van Nederland op het voorplat. Met talrijke foto's van Nederlandse bedrijven in 1913.
Mist 4 bladzijden; marges hebben soms kleine scheurtjes / beschadigingen; of zijn iets ingekort; 2 blz. beschreven met inkt; achterste schutbladen beschadigd. Desondanks een schitterend, rijk geïllustreerd overzicht van het Nederlandse bedrijfsleven in al zijn facetten in het jaar 1913. Zeldzaam!
[38226]N.n..
Foto-album. Waterbouwkundige werkzaamheden In Nederland 1927-1940.
Foto-album (ca.35 x 24 cm) met 249 foto's. Gemaakt door een hoofduitvoerder van Rijkswaterstaat in de periode 1927-1940. Het betreft waterbouwkundige projecten in heel Nederland. Onder meer in Moordrecht, Rotterdam, Gouda, Zaltbommel, div. werken in Friesland, Kruiningen en Wieringermeer-polder. Geeft een mooi tijdsbeeld weer. Te zien is de overgang van handwerk naar machinaal werken. Gelardeerd met enkele privé-foto's. Met gedicht betreffende de werkzaamheden in de Noordoostpolder in 1938 "door een onbekende dekknecht".
Een uniek document!
[36466]N.n..
Foto-album. Verruiming monding "Nieuwe Waterweg". De operatie "Faustus".
Foto-album met 103 foto's. Waarschijnlijk gemaakt in opdracht van Rijkswaterstaat. Betreft de periode 4 maart-24 april 1963. Het boek bevat een verslag van dag tot dag met foto's en tekst betreffende het karwei om het gezonken schip "Faustus" verder te laten afzinken in de vaargeul zodat het geen gevaar vormt voor de steeds groter wordende schepen die deze vaargeul passeren. Met kaarten, krantenverslagen, schema's van stromingen en getijden, tabellen van gewerkte uren en naamlijsten van medewerkers van Bos en Kalis en Adiaan Volker die aan dit projecyt meegewerkt hebben.
[36464]N.n.. Verbetering Kanaal Gent- ter Neuzen, bedoeld bij de wetten van 29 januari 1897 Staatsblad no. 62 en van 14 juli 1903 Staatsblad no. 196. Situatie der werken. Schutsluis beoosten Sas van Gent- Beveiligingswerken wederzijds de sluishoofden- Brug voor gewoon en tramwegverkeer beoosten Sas van Gent- Beveilings- en geleidingswerken der brug- Gedeeltelijke onderbouw der brug over den nieuwe mond voor het zijkanaal naar de Passluis. S.l.; s.a.; halfleer; folio, 53x75 cm.; met 14 zeer gedetailleerde, dubbelbladige revisietekeningen. Goed exemplaar. [32531]
Mücke, H..
Die Retouche photographischer Negative und Abdrücke. Mit Abbildungen und anatomischen Zeichnungen.
Düsseldorf; 1891; Ed. Liesegang's Verlag; softcover; small 8vo; 2nd edition; ills.; register; 195 pp.
Cover soiled and worn along extremities. Lower corner backcover repaired. Spine rather damaged. Contents fine.
[29314]Montillot, C.-J. & L..
La maison électrique, applications de l'électricité a la ville et la campagne. Prix offert par le préfet de la Seine au nom du Conseil Général.
Paris; no year (ca. 1890); A. Grelot; gilt printed halfleather; 8vo; all edges gilted; raised bands; with 250 wood engraved illustrations; II, 486 pp.
Portion of frontcover with faint dampstaining. Otherwise a very fine copy.
[31306]Mellet, F.N..
Traité des machines à vapeur et de leur application à la navigation, aux mines, aux manufactures, etc. 2 volumes.
Paris / Bruxelles; 1828 / 1838; Bachelier / Meline. Traduit de l'anglais de Th. Tredgold. Both bindings: half calf with marbled boards; XXX, 558 pp. Atlas: 35 pp. and 25 (folded) plates.
Rare complete edition with the atlas. Last plate with rust stains; otherwise in good condition.
[35053]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. 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. 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. 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]