Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Subject Terms: Roofs. - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

<< YCBA Home << YCBA Home

Start Over

You searched for:

Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

Subject Terms Roofs.

1. Elementary principles of carpentry; a treatise on the pressure and equilibrium of timber framing, the resistance of timber, and the construction of floors, centres, bridges, roofs; uniting iron and stone with timber, etc. With practical rules and examples. To which is added an essay on the nature and properties of timber ... also numerous tables ... Illustrated by fifty-three engravings, a portrait of the author, and several wood cuts. By Thomas Tredgold ...

No cover image available

Creator:: Tredgold, Thomas, 1788–1829
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: xxiv, 334 p. front. (port.) illus. (incl. tables) 53 plates (part fold.) 29 x 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Rendle's Patent system of glazing : railway stations, winter gardens, exhibition buildings, skating rinks, railway sheds, markets, public buildings, workshops, weaving sheds, skylights, etc. : also conservatories, plant houses, orchard houses, etc.

No cover image available

Date:: [1877?]
Physical Description:: 16 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The open timber roofs of the middle ages. Illustrated by perspective and working drawings of some of the best varieties of church roofs; with descriptive letter-press. By Raphael and J. Arthur Brandon ...

No cover image available

Creator:: Brandon, Raphael, 1817–1877
Date:: 1849
Physical Description:: viii, 87 p. ill., 43 plates. 32 x 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts