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London: Lockwood & Co, 1870. First Thus. Fifth edition, "corrected and considerably enlarged." Quarto (29cm). Rebound in modern brown half calf, with marbled paper-covered boards, titled in gold on spine; plain endpapers; xxii, 336pp; with portrait frontispiece, 64 plates (some folding), and numerous in-text wood engravings, complete. Plates 1-53 are line engravings; 54-64 are lithographs. A sturdy copy, with faint moisture spotting to leather corners, some dirt to top edge, occasionally affecting top margins; some minor dampstaining on plates 29, 37, 62-4, and the outer corner of the appendix; with minor foxing, a Very Good copy. Thomas Tredgold (1788-1829) was a carpenter, self-taught engineer, and prolific author of technical works on engineering. This book, first published in 1820, was one of his most important, addressing the use of timber in "floors, roofs, bridges, and other structures," and including early, data-driven research on resistance. Though Tredgold's "insufficient mathematical…
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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
by TREDGOLD, Thomas; Peter Barlow
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North Pennsylvania Minstrelsy as Sung in the Backwoods Settlements, Hunting Cabins and Lumber Camps in Northern Pennsylvania, 1840-1910
by [MUSIC] SHOEMAKER, Henry W. (compiler)
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Altoona: Altoona Tribune Company, 1919. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial buff card wrappers; 176pp; portrait frontispieces (2). Slight toning and wear to wrappers; bold ink ownership signature at upper margin of front wrapper ("R.E. Goettman"); still a solid, VG copy of the rather less common first edition (the collection was revised and re-issued in 1923). Collection of ballads and work songs from Pennsylvania's north woods, collected by Shoemaker with the assistance of native ballad singers John French and John Chatham (whose portraits appear as frontispieces). Reissued in 1923; the first printing is notably uncommon in commerce. COHEN ("Work & Sing") 149.
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Riding the Chuck Line: A Forester in Peace and War
by WOOLSEY, Theodore S. (Jr.)
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New Haven: Privately published, 1930. First Edition. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover, titled in gilt on front cover; 116pp. Trace of rubbing on spine ends and board corners, else straight, clean and unmarked; Near Fine. Uncommon memoir by Woolsey (1879-1933), a major figure in the fields of forestry and conservation. With much on his early Forest Service career in the American West under Gifford Pinchot, also recollections of his service in the Army Corps of Engineers during WW1.
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The Story of Logging the White Pine in the Saginaw Valley. A Story With Rare Old-Time Pictures...Complete With Dictionary of Loggers' Terms
by FOEHL, Harold M. and Irene M. Hargreaves
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Bay City, MI: Red Keg Press, 1976. Special Bicentennial Edition." Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 79pp; illus. Fine copy in lightly rubbed, unclipped dustwrapper, Near Fine. Michigan regional history.
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Strange Fugitive [Review Copy]
by CALLAGHAN, Morley
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's black buckram in green decorative dust jacket, dark green topstain; [8],264pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed with some short tears with creasing at bottom edge of rear panel, minute tape repair to verso, spine rather sunned, else Near Fine in a just about Very Good jacket. Review copy with slip laid in. The Canadian author's first book, about the foreman in a lumber yard in Toronto.
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This Fascinating Lumber Business
by HORN, Stanley F.
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Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951. Revised edition. Octavo (22cm). Green cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 313,[1]pp;black and white plates. Bumped and rubbed, but generally sound: around Very Good. Jacket unclipped (priced $4.50) but heavily rubbed with mild dustsoil and large chips at spine ends, just Very Good. [63339].
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