Record Progress Engineering 1865 Comprising by Humber William (4 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Lacks frontis, however a sound copy of this substantial work on engineering projects of the mid 19th century. Blue cloth boards are heavily spotted but internally the volume is in very good condition with 2 page-spread technical ullustrations. Illustrated areas covered include London sewage and waterworks, Thames Embankment works relating to steamboat piers.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of William Humber's engineering annual for the year 1865, a fantastic study on developments of engineering in the nineteenth century, with many fantastic engineering illustrations. The first edition of this annual for the year 1865. The works were published from 1863 to 1866.Illustrated with a monochrome mounted portrait frontispiece, monochrome vignettes, and forty monochrome plates, including folding plates. Collated, complete.A fantastic annual publication by William Humber, documenting developments in engineering in the late nineteenth century, and other news in engineering. This volume of the annual discusses the constructions of harbours and ports, improved systems of fortifications, the history of drainage and sewerage in London and much more. The work is accompanied by many fantastic diagrams and illustrations.A scarce volume from this series of annual engineering publications.'Bradford' library copy with the usual stamps. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally very smart with minimal edge wear and marks to the boards. Library location to the tail of the spine. 'Bradford Library' stamps to the endpapers and to the odd page to the front. Internally firmly bound with minimal age toning and the odd minor handling mark and spot. Very Good. book.

pp. xii, 59, (i). Frontispiece real photograph of JOHN ROBINSON MCCLEAN with facsimile signature below, 40 lithographed plates [mostly double-page, 1 folding]. Contemporary half morocco, rubbed and worn, some foxing, library book-plate and call number on verso of title but no stamps. *The frontispiece of McClean is by the UNITED ASSOCIATION OF PHOTOGRAPHY LIMITED, 213 Regent Street, [London]. It is described as a WOTHLYTYPE. In this rare variant technique, arrow-root was used to size the paper. GERNSHEIM # 267 records the four volumes published in this annual series, 1863 to 1866. It is not common, COPAC only records the BL, NLS and Oxford as having the four volumes and Glasgow having three.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1866 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 239 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 239 Language: English.