Search Results: ENGINEERING ARCHITECTURE CRAFTSMANSHIP from Fortuna Books

London: Hutchinson, 1963 minor small areas of surface insect damage to cloth, DW unclipped with tears to ends of joints, a few short edge tears but little if any loss, 199pp with b&w illustrations, internationally significant Greek architect. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

New York: Scribners, 1929 plum cloth with very tidt paper labels to spine and upper board, unclipped DW has minor browning to spine, short tears to head of spine with archival tape to the verso, xvi 160pp + frontis and plates, ' A manual for the student in the school of architecture and the draftsman in the office the novice and the experienced man', new Student's Edition contains the complete text and illustrations of the original larger volume. reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Sheffield: Arthur Balfour & Co Ltd quarter cloth with decorative papered boards with a raised relief design of a cutting wheel, light rubbing to edges, parts catalogue, nicely produced on glazed paper stock with monotone illustrations of the parts etc, 162pp. First Thus. Decorative Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Linotype And Machinery Ltd, 1948 (500 gram rate) 56pp + blanks at rear. buff card covers with minor wear short edge tear, inscription to fep, errata slip intact, included with this is the supplement to the handbook No 1 being 8pp staple bound, and an original photographic print of a press with the stamp of a german photographer on the back, I have no idea if it is the same machine as the handbook but assume so. Very scarce manual for now vintage machinery. Second Edition. Printer Wrapper. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Pitman, 1921 324pp + adverts, some photos and many diagrams, some pencil doodling to half title and verso of frontis. one page noted with small pen scribble. covers are soiled uniformly. top corner of lower board water stained, internally G+ or better.. Fifth. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Wiley, 1992 fifth edition 868pp VG used copy heavy extra postage will be needed (2kg rate). Fifth. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall.

London: Heinemann, 1970 library cancel, slips and stamps etc to endpapers, tape stain to paste down, DW under plastic sleeve, acquisition marks to imprint, otherwise near VG copy. technical aspects of industrial and commercial bricklaying includes retaining walls, chimneys, load bearing structures etc. . reprint. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. Ex-Library.

Karl Robert Langewiesche Verlag, 1959 "Dies blaue buch gibt in ausgesucht schonen bildern einen Uberblick uber die stadtischen Fachwerkbauten in Deutschland und in den einfuhrenden und die bilder begleitenden Texten einen Einblick in die Entwicklung der verschiedenen Bauweisen" 112pp Goethe Society Prize Plate to fep. Soft Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall.

London: George Allen, 1944 cloth a bit tired, war era paper stock, DW worn with some chipping to corners and spine ends, 285pp + plates, overview of slum clearance and rehousing in Britain and on the continent, originally published in 1938 it covers activity prior to the 1930s and includes Fascist Italy and National Socialist Germany. Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Glasgow: Fleming Brothers, 1955 near fine, owner stamps to feps and top and bottom closed edges, card in pocket at rear, maroon limp cloth with gilt titling and monogram, rounded corners to covers and rounded edges to pages, marker ribbon, xiv 647pp + 24 black and white plates of constructions etc at rear, nice clean tidy handbook of structural tables and equations etc for engineering, assumed first issue, 1955. Facsimile. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

New York: Horizon Press, 1977 (1500 gram rate) very tidy, unclipped dust jacket, shows minor handling, 620pp + plates. some light dust soiling to closed edges etc . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

England: Turret blue papered boards with black and red printing. 60pp on art paper with black and white photos of the wares as well as ink drawings, diagrams and charts. a purchasing catalogue for the engineering trade. covers a little soiled, ink name head of title page otherwise tidy (500 gram rate) . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Koln: Taschen, 1998 (2kg rate) near fine, DW small split at tail of front fore edge fold taped, 237pp well illustrated in colour photography, part of the Taschen's World Architechture series, HEAVY WILL INCUR EXCESS POSTAGE CHARGE. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Auckland: Todd-Forbes, 1987 some minor sun fade to jacket spine, 'Dynamo design and construction wth ceramic magnets an original modular design based on practical experience...a picture diary of a step-by-step construction of a low speed generator and how it has been put to use.' with over 300 illustrations, photographs, working drawings, schematics of electrical systems and tables of test results. 182pp large 4to (12" tall) printed on gloss sized paper. Dynamo can be produced in any well equipped home workshop and yeilds 12v-36v at 1000watts-28 amps and 36v at 740 RPM. No soldering or welding is required, no foundry work or brushes to wear out. Amazingly enough the designer built all gear shown in the book with hand tools or hand powered machines as he had no power tools available!. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall.

Philips Technical Library, 1964 navy cloth, gilt titled, VG boards, owners name end paper, light tape residue to paste downs. 308pp circuit diagrams and photographs. priciples and properties of electron tubes, circuits and transistors. electronic relays, counting circuits etc.. third edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1940 (200 gram rate) aged paper stock, light edge chipping and minor dust soiling to the unclipped dust jacket, 126pp +2pp adverts + plates also includes slipped in 4pp booklet 'The Writer's News' Pelican first edition A61. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/Very Good. 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall.

New York: Sterling, 1985 (500 gram rate) selection, care and use of Japanese woodworking tools, 160pp B&W photos. VG copy with rubbing to the spine edges. excellent clear photographs.. reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall.

London: Batsford sixth edition revised and enlarged, post 1925 but undated, red cloth with rubbing wear to spine ends, handling soiled, name to paste down and fep, 290pp, one leaf detached, rear hinge opened, well illustrated, includes methods of ventilating the home, plumbing waste pipe maps, tin / lead roofing, many useful techniques. Revised and Enlarged. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Philip Allan undated assumed first edition, pale cream buckram with slight discolouration, engravings by Arthur Beckett, browned feps, 245pp + photographic plates, British water and wind mills, circa 1930s. First Edition. Buckram. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Arthur Beckett. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall.

New York: Edward Lyman Bill, 1925 (500 grams) two tone cloth boards, slightly rubbed to joints, some foxing, otherise tidy copy of scarce title, 240pp with diagrams throughout, fore edge of lower board discoloured, "Being a treatise on the design and construction of the pneumatic action of the player-piano and of the reproducing piano" 52 illustrations. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.