Practical Tunneling; Explaining in Detail the Setting Out of the Works; Shaft Sinking and Heading Driving; Ranging the Lines and Levelling Under Ground; Sub-Excavating, Timbering, and the Construction of the Brickwork of Tunnels; with the Amount of Labour Required for, and the Cost of the Various Portions of the Work: As Exemplified by the Particulars of Blechingley and Saltwood Tunnels, Second Edition

SIMMS, FREDERICK WALTER & HASKOLL, W. DAVIS (revision, plates)

Published by Lockwood & Co. 1860

About this Item

SECOND REVISED EDITION, quarto, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering + blind-stamped decorative rule to spine, blind-stamped decoration + decorative rule to front & rear boards, frontispiece, 189pp + numerous folding plates to rear, illus/diagrams, VG- (moderate bruising to spine + extrems w/ 1 cm of surface loss to rear board, boards lightly bent at extrems, light tanning to page edges, light-moderate foxing throughout [heavier to folding plates], light-moderate creasing + occasional chipping to folding plates.

Seller Inventory # 1y68c/13

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Practical Tunneling; Explaining in Detail the Setting Out of the Works; Shaft Sinking and Heading Driving; Ranging the Lines and Levelling Under Ground; Sub-Excavating, Timbering, and the Construction of the Brickwork of Tunnels; with the Amount of Labour Required for, and the Cost of the Various Portions of the Work: As Exemplified by the Particulars of Blechingley and Saltwood Tunnels, Second Edition
• Publisher: Lockwood & Co. 1860
• Binding: Hardcover