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Canal Control Committee (Board of Trade) Handbook on Canals.

London: Canal Control Committee, 1918. Second edition (softcover). 8vo (24cm by 15cm), 41pp. 2 large coloured maps (printed back to back on one folding sheet); one depicting canals in England & Wales, and the other depicting canals in Ireland. Original printed brown card wrappers. Some spotting and tanning of the covers, short ownership inscription, and the staples in the binding are rusting; overall, this book is in good condition.

Cornell Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 56484

Catalogue: 3

The Canals of Canada - Under the Jurisdiction of the Department of Transport

Canada, 1946. Paperback. Book, Both fold outs in back in great condition. Light wear. Good.

Rainy Day BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 41438

Catalogue: Canadiana

[Corps Of Engineers, U. S. Army],

Charts of New York Canals Champlain Canal, Erie Canal, Oswego Canal, Cayuga and Seneca Canal.

Detroit: U. S. Lake Survey, 1956. Flexible covers. Boards creased and darkened and with light rubbing to extremities. ; 8vo; Sheet 1700-1848 pages. Very Good.

The Complete Traveller Antiquarian BookstoreProfessional seller

Book number: 17143

Catalogue: New York

Investigation of Panama Canal Matters. Testimony of Engineers Before the Committee on Interoceanic Canals of the United States Senate in the Matter of the Senate Resolution Adopted January 9, 1906, Providing for an Investigation of Matters Relating to the Panama Canal, Etc

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1906. Hardcover. Fascinating transcript of the various hearings held by the Senate committee investigating the construction of the Panama Canal in 1906. Thus much first hand testimony on former works, proposed routes, engineering issues, disputes, future operation, governance and much more. Plans and diagrams. Valuable in understanding US claims to the resulting completed project. All in VG order throughout. Attractively bound, with marbling to all edges, in black half leather with green cloth-covered boards. Smart gilt titling to spine. 8vo. [6] 998pp . Very Good/No Jacket.

Dodman BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 106391

Catalogue: The Panama Canal

Johnston's Commercial & Industrial Map of England and Wales & Part of Scotland Showing the Lines of Railway Complete or in Progress the Seats of the Principal Trades & Manufactures & the Districts of Mines & Minerals, Distinguishing Canals & Navigable .

Edinburgh, W & A. K. Johnston & Publishers. 1847. Full title. Johnston's Commercial & Industrial Map of England and Wales & Part of Scotland Showing the Lines of Railway Complete or in Progress the Seats of the Principal Trades & Manufactures & the Districts of Mines & Minerals, Distinguishing Canals & Navigable, Rivers, tracing the tracks of foreign & coasting steam vessels, & marking the position of Lighthouses &c. Large folding linen backed coloured map, in 2 parts. Map measures 71 x 57 inches, [ 180x145mm ]. A few small secitions of map lifting at folds, minor wear. Map in very good clean condition. House in publishers leather case, which has split along spine. A very nice map. Very Good.

George Jeffery BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 097355

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: railways. canals. steam vessells

George Christopher Davies 225771

On Dutch Waterways. The cruise of the S.S. Atalanta on the rivers and canals of Holland and the North of Belgium.

Groothandel / BESTEL. Paperback. Pp: 406. ISBN: 9781240915156. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.

De SlegteProfessional seller

Book number: 1294654

Catalogue: Geschiedenis

Keywords: 9781240915156

Plan Shewing the Shropshire Union Canals

Chester, Gresty and Burghall. 1870. Book, Plan shewing the Shropshire Union Canals printed by Gresty and Burghall of Chester circa 1870. On folding linen size 63 by 59 cm. Hand-coloured with a colour-coded key that gives details of the eight canal companies operating in the area. Covers an area south of a line running from Liverpool to Manchester down to another from Newtown in mid-Wales to Birmingham. Folds into original stiff boards which have a label on the front with the title and another indicating that the map was once the property of the Earl of Powis. Map Good to Vg condition. Images available.

Arthur HookProfessional seller

Book number: 001201

Keywords: Canals

Sudan Government. Contract for the Construction of a Dam and Subsidiary Works at Makwar on the Blue Nile, and the Construction of Irrigation Canals and Subsidiary Works for the Gezira Irrigation Scheme

London, Burrup, Mathieson & Sprague, 1922. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce contract made between the Sudan Government and the engineers employed to construct the Sennar Dam on the Blue Nile, revealing fascinating insights into the irrigation techniques of the day. A fascinating and very scarce publication from the Sudan Government detailing the contract signed on the 17th October 1922 between Sir Edgar Edwin Bernard, Financial Secretary of the Sudan Government, and the contractors - S. Peason and Sons - employed to construct a dam on the Blue Nile.The Sennar Dam is an irrigation dam on the Blue Nile designed by Scottish engineer Sir Murdoch MacDonald, and completed in 1925. This contract contains information on 'specification, schedule of prices, and other schedules and bond', along with a discussion of methods for the settlement of disputes, canalization, valuation of materials, sanitary and health services, and materials.This dam was a key aspect of the Gezira Scheme, one of the world's largest irrigation projects, started by the British while the area was governed as a part of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. It involves water from the Blue Nile being distributed through canals and ditches to tenant farms lying between the Blue and White Nile rivers, for the purposes of growing cotton.From the library of Frederic Newhouse (1883-1969), sometime inspector-general of Egyptian irrigation in the Sudan, and with his contemporary inscription to the head of the front wraps, dated 1923. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding, with paper covered boards. Head of front joint starting, with board holding firm. Contemporary inscription to head of front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 796F13

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: irrigation egypt gezira nile egypt newhouse None

FAULKNER ALAN

The Warwick Canals

Railway and Canal Historical Society, 1985. Paperback. ISBN: 0901461393. 80pp, illustrated bound on glazed card covers; Quarto. Fine .

Castle Hill BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 62196

Keywords: 0901461393 Waterways Rivers

Alborough, Norman

Inland Cruising. A guide to Boating on Canals and Rivers

Gebonden, hardcover; 1995; The Crowood Press, Wiltshire, UK; 126pp.; Conditie: Goed; Engels; ISBN10: 1852238763, ISBN13: 9781852238766

Klondyke BVProfessional seller

Book number: 054830

Catalogue: Topografie/Europa

Keywords: Europa

SCOTT DAVIES ALLAN

Shadows on the Water the Haunted Canals and Waterways of Britain

Stroud: The History Press, 2010. Paperback. 160p, illustrated, fine softback; Large Octavo. New .

Castle Hill BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 61049

Keywords: Social Local

Allis, E.P.

The Lateral Sensory Canals, the Eye-Muscles and the Peripheral Distribution of certain of the Cranial Nerves of Mustela laevis.

n.d. (ca. 1902) 150 p., 3 double col. pls, paperbound (spine worn, back cover missing). Published in: The Quaterly Journal of Microscopical Science.

Hermann L. Strack, Antiquarian Book DealerProfessional seller

Book number: VF09647

Catalogue: 1

Anderson, John

Leicestershire Canals: Bygones in Camera

John Anderson. paperback ISBN: 0950477702, Condition: LikeNew.

Aardvark Rare BooksProfessional seller

Book number: mon0000360448

ANON.

The Roads and Railroads, Vehicles, and Modes of Travelling, of Ancient and Modern Countries, with Accounts of Bridges, Tunnels, and Canals in Various Parts of the World.

London: John W.Parker, 1839. 1st edition. "We have bestowed hasty glances on the people of many lands - we have seen the ancient Briton moving over his narrow trackway - we have traced the locomotive engine proceeding with astonishing speed over a smooth and elaborately-constructed line of road - and, in filling up the long interval between the states of society coeval with these two forms of locomotion, we have endeavoured to inoculate the useful lesson, that in virtuous industry and enterprise, nations, as well as individuals, find their happiness and well-being." (preface). 19.5cms x 11.5cms x 2cms. Pp.viii/340/iv(publisher's catalogue), many full page and vignette engraved illustrations, owner's small bookplate (T.Brathwaite) and old pencil price to inside front board. Dark green blind-stamped cloth, title to spine darkened, repairs to spine at some time in the past, minor bumps to front fore-edge. G+.

Chilton BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 51272

Catalogue: Transport: : 19th Century

Keywords: Roads Railroads Vehicles Modes Travelling Bridges Tunnels Canals Trains Locomotives Telford Military Walls China Scotland Carriages Horses Steam Transport Illustrated 52689 Transport: : 19th Century

Anon

The Roads and Railroads, Vehicles, and Modes of Travelling, of Ancient and Modern Countries, with Accounts of Bridges, Tunnels and Canals in Various Parts of the World

John W. Parker,, 1839. 1st Edition. Hardcover. tears across spine with slight loss Fair.

The Victoria BookshopProfessional seller

Book number: 500047752