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    Section 1: Bridges


  1. BAILEY BRIDGES
    Bridging Normandy to Berlin. British Army of the Rhine, 1945
    Price: �120.00
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  2. CASTOR, A.
    Recueil d'appareils � vapeur employ�s aux travaux de navigation et de chemins de fer. Paris, Firmin Didot, 1860
    Price: �2,250.00
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  3. CHALEY, Joseph
    Pont suspendu de Fribourg (Suisse). Paris, Carilian-Goeury, 1835
    Price: �450.00
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  4. DOUGLAS, Howard
    An essay on the principles and construction of military bridges London, Murray, 1853. 3rd edition
    Price: �250.00
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  5. EMMERY, H.C.
    Pont d'Ivry en bois, sur piles en pierre, Paris, Carilian-Goery, 1832
    Price: �1,250.00
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  6. HUTTON, Charles
    Tracts on mathematical and philosophical subjects; London, for Rivington, Wilkie etc., 1812
    Price: �450.00
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  7. POPE, Thomas
    A treatise on bridge architecture New York, Alexander Niven (printer), 1811
    Price: �950.00
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  8. ROEBLING, John A.
    Long and short span railway bridges. New York, D.van Nostrand, 1869
    Price: �1,850.00
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  9. SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE ADVISORY BOARD
    Report on designs and tenders submitted New South Wales, 1903
    Price: �950.00
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  10. WARE, Samuel
    Tracts on vaults and bridges containing observations on the various forms of London, Printed for Thomas and William Boone, 1822
    Price: �450.00
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  11. YATES, Gideon & RENNIE, Sir John
    A view of Old London Bridge, in 1823, after the removal of the water works, London, R. Martin (lithograther), nd but c.1831
    Price: �1,250.00
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    Section 2: Building technology and architecture


  12. (ADAM BROTHERS) [SHARP, Granville]
    Remarks concerning the encroachments on the River Thames London, 1771
    Price: �650.00
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  13. ECKSTEIN, G.F.
    A practical treatise on chimneys; with a few remarks on stoves, London, Weale and the Author, 1852
    Price: �180.00
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  14. (FRANKENSTEIN GROUP & HANDLEY PAGE) F.H.P. (Structures) Ltd.
    F.H.P.110 Air-Portable Hangar. January, 1967
    Price: �150.00
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  15. GAS LIGHT & COKE CO.
    Minutes of evidence taken before the Committee London, 19th May, 1809
    Price: �450.00
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  16. GAS LIGHT ESTABLISHMENTS
    Observations on such parts of a report London, Printed for Rivingtons and Cochran, 1823
    Price: �150.00
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  17. [HARTLEY, David]
    An account of the method of securing buildings London, 1774
    Price: �950.00
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  18. HERRING, W.R.
    The Granton works of the Edinburgh & Leith Corporations� Gas Commissioners. London, Walter King, Office of �The Journal of Gas Lighting�, 1907
    Price: �350.00
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  19. (JEBB, Joshua)
    Report of the Surveyor-General of prisons on the construction, ventilation, and details, of Pentonville Prison, 1844. London, HMSO, 1844
    Price: �680.00
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  20. LANGLEY, Batty & Thomas
    The builder's jewel: London, Printed for R.Ware, 1746. 2nd edn.
    Price: �350.00
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  21. MANBY, WILSON et Cie.
    Statuts sociaux de la soci�t� en commandite Manby, Wilson et Cie., Paris, nd but 1821
    Price: �180.00
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  22. NATIONAL JUBILEE
    Account of the National Jubilee, in August, 1814; London, J. Briscoe (printer), 1814
    Price: �1,250.00
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  23. NEWLANDS, James
    The carpenter and joiner's assistant. Glasgow, Blackie, 1862. 2nd edn.
    Price: �150.00
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  24. PRICE, Francis
    The British carpenter or; a treatise on carpentry. London, printed by C. Ackers for C.Hitch and L.Hawes, 1759, 4th edition
    Price: �150.00
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  25. SAVOT, Louis
    L'architecture fran�oise des bastimens particuliers. Paris, Clouzier, 1685
    Price: �450.00
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  26. TEALE, T. Pridgin
    Economy of coal in house fires; London, Churchill, 1883
    Price: �250.00
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  27. TREDGOLD, Thomas
    Principles of warming and ventilating public buildings, dwelling-houses, manufactories, hospitals, London, Printed for Josiah Taylor, 1824. 2nd edn.
    Price: �550.00
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  28. WALMISLEY, Arthur T.
    Iron roofs. Examples of design. London, Spon, 1884
    Price: �950.00
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    29.

    Section 3: Civil engineering


  29. BARRY, Sir John Wolfe, BAKER, Sir Benjamin & HURTZIG
    The Port of Bristol. Report upon the dockisation of the River Avon. London, 28th May, 1900
    Price: �280.00
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  30. BLACKWALL TUNNEL
    A description of the Blackwall Tunnel. Reprinted from 'London', May 13th, 1897
    Price: �150.00
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  31. CHANNEL TUNNEL
    Report from the joint select committee London, Hansard, 10 July, 1883
    Price: �400.00
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  32. CHANNEL TUNNEL
    Commercial. No.6 (1875). Correspondence respecting the proposed Channel Tunnel and railway. London, Houses of Parliament, 1875
    Price: �350.00
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  33. CRESY, Edward
    An encyclopaedia of civil engineering, London, Longman, Brown, Green etc., 1847
    Price: �350.00
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  34. LABELYE, Charles
    The result of a view of the Great Level of the Fens, London, George Woodfall (printer), 1745
    Price: �450.00
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  35. (PORT OF LONDON) [VAUGHAN, William]
    On wet docks, quays, and warehouses, for the Port of London; London, 1793, 1794
    Price: �550.00
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  36. SMEATON, John
    An historical report on Ramsgate Harbour: London, 1791
    Price: �250.00
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  37. THORNTON, George
    Port of Bristol. Design for the accommodation of the largest class of London, 1860
    Price: �450.00
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    38.

    Section 4: Mechanical & Marine Engineering, Mining


  38. (ARKWRIGHT, Richard)
    The trial of a cause, instituted by Richard Pepper Arden, Esq; his Majesty's Attorney General, London, 1785
    Price: �1,250.00
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  39. BODA, Nicolaus
    Berechnung der Luftmaschine, welche in der Niederungarischen Bergstade zu Schemnitz... Vienna, Kurzbock (printer), 1771
    Price: �850
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  40. COULTHARD, H.C.
    Blast engines. Containing plates to scale of large working drawings. With letterpress description. London, Atchley, 1867
    Price: �350.00
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  41. HALL, Samuel
    Hall's improvements on steam engines; Nottingham (1832)
    Price: �350.00
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  42. HALL, Samuel
    Extracts from Samuel Hall's specification of his patent Nottingham, R.Allen, (late S.Bennett,) Printer, 1837
    Price: �250.00
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  43. HALL, Samuel
    Samuel Hall's address to the British Association, Liverpool, 1837
    Price: �250.00
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  44. HUDDART, Sir Joseph
    Memoir of the late Captain Joseph Huddart, F.R.S. &c. London, W. Phillips, 1821
    Price: �280.00
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  45. (HUNTSMAN, Benjamin) FOURNESS & ASHWORTH
    Bref examen, des qualit�s de l'acier fondu, de Huntsman. 28th March, 1792
    Price: �420.00
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  46. LONGRIDGE, Robert B.
    Steam Boiler Assurance Company. Chief engineer�s report[s], 1859-1879. Manchester, 1860-1879 (first 4 reports reprinted 1873), 1874
    Price: �550.00
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  47. SCHELTER & GIESECKE
    F�nfundsiebzig Jahre des Hauses J.G.Schelter & Giesecke in Leipzig. (Leipzig, 1894)
    Price: �150.00
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  48. SEPPINGS, Robert
    On a new principle of constructing His Majesty's ships of war. London, 1814, 1818, 1820, 1822, 1816, 1816, 1816, 1817, 1814, 1818, 1820, 1822, 1816, 1816, 1816, 1817, 1825
    Price: �1,550.00
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  49. TRAILL, Thomas W.
    Experiments on steel. London, HMSO, (1878)
    Price: �350.00
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    Section 5: Railways, roads, inland navigation


  50. ANON
    An essay on the present state of our publick roads; London, for R.Baldwin, 1756
    Price: �320.00
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  51. BATEMAN, J.
    The general turnpike road act, 3 Geo.IV.Cap.126. London, Printed for the Associated Law Booksellers, 1822, 1823
    Price: �220.00
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  52. BEYER, PEACOCK & CO.
    'Leinster' and tender. Fine contemporary works photograph of one of the locomotives for the Ulster Railway. Manchester, Beyer, Peacock, 1863
    Price: �450.00
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  53. BEYER, PEACOCK & CO.
    Fine contemporary works photograph of a locomotive and tender made for the Smyrna & Cassaba Railway in Turkey. Manchester, Beyer, Peacock, 1864
    Price: �450.00
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  54. CHAMBERS, Abraham Henry
    Observations on the formation, state and condition of turnpike roads London, Printed for the Author, 1820
    Price: �220.00
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  55. CORDIER, J.
    Histoire de la navigation int�rieure, Paris, Firmin Didot, 1819,1820
    Price: �550.00
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  56. CRELLE, A.L.
    M�moire sur les diff�rentes mani�res de se servir de l'�lasticit� de l'air. Berlin, 1846
    Price: �350.00
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  57. DIPLOCK, Bramah Joseph
    A new system of heavy goods transport on common roads. London, Longmans Green, 1902
    Price: �110.00
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  58. EDGEWORTH, Richard Lovell
    An essay on the construction of roads and carriages. London, 1817. 2nd end.
    Price: �380.00
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  59. GORDON, Alexander
    The fitness of turnpike roads and highways London, Roake and Varty, 1835
    Price: �220.00
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  60. GRAY, Thomas
    Observations on a general iron rail-way, or land steam-conveyance; London, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1825. 5th edn.
    Price: �450.00
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  61. (GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY) BRITTON, John
    Lecture on the road-ways of England, Bristol, Oct. 19, 1833
    Price: �350.00
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  62. HIGHWAYS OF THE KINGDOM
    First [and second] report from the Committee on acts regarding the use London, the House of Commons, 13th June, 18th July 1806 (reprinted 8th March 1808); 11th May, 30th May, 17th June 1808
    Price: �450.00
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  63. LANDALE, Charles & DUNN, Matthias
    Report submitted to the subscribers for defraying the expence of a survey Dundee, 1825, 1825
    Price: �450.00
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  64. LEACH, Edmund
    A treatise of universal inland navigations, London, for Alex. Hamilton, 1791. 2nd edn.
    Price: �480.00
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  65. LOCOMOTIVES ON ROADS
    Report from the Select Committee on locomotives on roads; London, House of Commons, 18 July 1873
    Price: �150.00
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  66. LONDON UNDERGROUND RAILWAYS
    Report from the Joint Select Committee London, for HMSO, 23rd July 1901
    Price: �350.00
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  67. [LONGRIDGE, Michael]
    Remarks on the comparative merits of cast metal and malleable iron rail-ways; Newcastle, Edward Walker (printer), 1827
    Price: �450.00
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  68. MACERONI, Francis
    Expositions and illustrations, London, Effingham Wilson, 1835
    Price: �550.00
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  69. MANN, William
    A description of a new method of propelling locomotive machines, London, J.Taylor, 1830
    Price: �850.00
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  70. McADAM, John Loudon
    Remarks on the present system of road making; London, Longman, Hurst etc., 1823. 7th edn.
    Price: �120.00
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  71. (McADAM, J.L.) FLOWER, Edward Fordham
    The stones of London; or, Macadam v. Vestries. London, Cassell, Petter, Galpin, (1880)
    Price: �150.00
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  72. MEIK, C.S. & BEER, Walter
    Royal Commission on London Traffic. Proposed London main avenues, London, 1903-4.
    Price: �650.00
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  73. PARNELL, Sir Henry
    A treatise on roads; London, Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme etc., 1833
    Price: �330.00
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  74. PATERSON, James
    A practical treatise on the making and upholding of public roads. Montrose, Printed by James Watt, for Thomas Donaldson, Dundee; (etc)., 1819
    Price: �380.00
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  75. PENFOLD, Charles
    A practical treatise on the best mode of repairing roads. London, Robert Baldwin. Printed under the superintendence of the society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and forming part of the Farmer�s series., 1847. A new edition, enlarged.
    Price: �150.00
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  76. SMITH, J.Frederick
    Frederick Swanwick. A sketch. Printed for private circulation, 1888
    Price: �150.00
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  77. STEVENSON, Robert
    To His Grace the Duke of Atholl, the Right Honourable the Earl of Strathmore, Edinburgh, 1st July 1820. 2nd issue.
    Price: �650.00
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  78. STOREY, Thomas
    Report on the Great North of England railway connecting Leeds and York, with Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Darlington, 1836
    Price: �350.00
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  79. SUMMERSIDE, Thomas
    Anecdotes, reminiscences, and conversations, of and with the late George Stephenson, London, Bemrose and Sons (1878),
    Price: �130.00
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  80. [TELFORD, Thomas]
    [1st to 8th] Report of the Commissioners for making roads (London), 1804, 1805, 1807, 1809, 1811, 1813, 1815, 1817
    Price: �250.00
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  81. TRAIN, George Francis
    Street railways. London and Liverpool, 1860, 1860, 1861
    Price: �1,150.00
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  82. TRAIN, George Francis
    Observations on horse railways London, Sampson Low, 1860
    Price: �350.00
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  83. TRAIN, George Francis
    Observations on street railways. London, Sampson Low, 1860. 2nd edition, with appendix.
    Price: �450.00
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  84. (TRAIN, George Francis) NEWLANDS, James
    Report on horse railways Liverpool, 19th April, 1860
    Price: �280.00
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  85. (TRAIN, George Francis) BRUCE, George B.
    Street railways. Memorandum. Privately printed, (1860)
    Price: �220.00
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  86. TRAMWAYS
    Report from the select committee on tramways (use of mechanical power); London, House of Commons, 16 April 1877, 7th June 1878
    Price: �250.00
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  87. TRAMWAYS
    Report from the select committee on the House of Lords London, House of Commons, 25 April 1879
    Price: �350.00
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