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No author. - The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. LXV- from January to June 1888.

London; 1888; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles, reviews in this volume i.a.: Bogie passenger engine, Caledonian Railway (Mr. D. Drummond, St. Rollox, engineer), with a woodengraved view; the Stanley exhibition of cycles, with fig.; trunk engines, H.M.S. Warrior, 1861 (Messrs. J. Penn and Sons, Greenwich, engineers), with plans; express locomotive, Great Northern Railway (Mr. Patrick Stirling, engineer), with a double page, woodengraved, view of the locomotive; the Birmingham cable tramway (Mr. Joseph Kincaid and Mr. E. Pritchard, Westminster, engineers), with plans and fig.; s.s. Alligator and Capercailzie (Messrs. Barclay, Curle and Co., Whiteinch, builders), with plans and fig.; New Promenade Pier, St. Leonard's-on-Sea (Mr. R. St. George Moore, Westminster, engineer), with plans and fig.; moving the Brighton Beach Hotel, New York, with woodengraved ills.; the steam yacht, Grace Darling (Messrs. Fleming & Ferguson Paisley, shipbuilders, engineers), with a woodengraved view of the vessel; the Nordenfelt submarine torpedo boat, with plans and fig.; the Zalinsky pneumatic dynamite gun, with fig.; the Forth Bridge- Fife Pier and Cantilevers (Sir John Fowler and Mr. B. Baker, engineers), with a double page, woodengraved, view of the construction of the bridge; tank locomotive, Hungarian State Railways, with a double page enclosure with plans and fig.; index; VIII, 538 pp. Former library copy. Title page waterstained. Some leaves with waterstaining at upper margin. The numerous woodengraved illustrations in fine and clear order.
EUR 120.00 [Appr.: US$ 129.2 | £UK 101.75 | JP¥ 20324] Book number 26142

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