Practical Tunnelling; Explainging 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 Bleechingley and Saltwood Tunnels

Simms, Frederick Walter. W. Davis Haskoll, rev

Published by London: Bradley Thomas, 1859, 1859

About this Item

Second, revised edition with additional plates. Quarto, vi 189 pp. 16 plates (14 of which are folding), several text illustrations. Frontispiece. Original blind embossed brown cloth, which has been nicely rebacked. Some minor bumping to extremities; some foxing throughout with a small old water stain in the upper inner margin of the plates. Overall, a very sound copy.

Seller Inventory # 975723

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Practical Tunnelling; Explainging 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 Bleechingley and Saltwood Tunnels
• Publisher: London: Bradley Thomas, 1859
• Publication Date: 1859
• Binding: unknown_binding
• Condition: Used-Very Good
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