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Period 19th century

Subject Terms Civil engineering.

1. This day are published, in three volumes, quarto, price £7:7s. boards, illustrated with 74 plates, printed chiefly from his manuscripts, under the direction of a select committee of civil engineers, Reports, estimates, and treatises, embracing the several subjects of canals, navigable rivers, harbours, piers, bridges, draining, embanking, lighthouses, machinery of various descriptions including fire engines, mills, &c. &c. with other miscellaneous papers drawn up in the course of his employment as a civil engineer, by the late Mr. John Smeaton, F.R.S.

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Date:: [1812]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Public works of Great Britain : consisting of railways, rails, chairs, blocks, cuttings, embankments, tunnels, oblique arches, viaducts, bridges, stations, locomotive engines &c : cast iron bridges, iron and gas works : canals, lock gates, centering, masonry and brick work for canal tunnels, canal boats, the London and Liverpool docks, plans and dimensions, dock gates, walls, quays and their masonry, mooring chains : plan of the harbour and port of London, and other important engineering works with descriptions and specifications : the whole rendered of the utmost utility to the civil engineer, to the nobility and gentry, as monuments of the useful arts in this country and as examples to the foreign engineer / edited by F.W. Simms, C.E. ; 153 plates.

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Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: [5], viii-xii, 72, 32, 24, 70 pages, [142] leaves of plates in various foliations : illustrations, maps, plans ; 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts