Building World, An Illustrated Weekly Trade Journal for Architects, Builders...[etc] Volume 14 (Nos 339 to 364)

Cassell and Company, Ltd 1902 viii plus 416pp, many illustrations, trade advertisements etc 33x24, green cloth with Art Nouveau decoration and gilt lettering on spine Slight browning to edge of pages, some marks to covers that may indicate ownership by a working builder or architect. Newsagent's note on fp of most issues. Very good thus. The 26 editions of the journal bound with an index produced as a supplement to issue 367.

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Building World, An Illustrated Weekly Trade Journal for Architects, Builders...[etc] Volume 16 (Nos 391 to 416)

Cassell and Company, Ltd 1903 viii plus 440pp, many illustrations, trade advertisements etc 33x24, green wraps with Art Nouveau decoration and gilt lettering on spine Slight browning to edge of pages, some marks to covers that may indicate ownership by a working builder or architect. Newsagent's note on fp of most issues. Corner creasing to a few pages.Very good thus. The 26 editions of the journal bound with an index produced as a supplement to issue 419.

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Book number: 33378

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Building World, An Illustrated Weekly Trade Journal for Architects, Builders...[etc] Volume 15 (Nos 365 to 390)

Cassell and Company, Ltd 1903 viii plus 424pp, many illustrations, trade advertisements etc 33x24, green cloth with Art Nouveau decoration and gilt lettering on spine Slight browning to edge of pages, some marks to covers that may indicate ownership by a working builder or architect. Newsagent's note on fp of most issues. Very good thus. The 26 editions of the journal bound with an index produced as a supplement to issue 393.

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Building World, An Illustrated Weekly Trade Journal for Architects, Builders...[etc] Volume 13 (Nos 313 to 338)

Cassell and Company, Ltd 1902 viii plus 532pp, many illustrations, trade advertisements etc 33x24, green cloth with Art Nouveau decoration and gilt lettering on spine Slight browning to edge of pages, some marks to covers and edges that may indicate ownership by a working builder or architect. Newsagent's note on fp of most issues. Very good thus. The 26 editions of the journal bound with an index produced as a supplement to issue 341.

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Book number: 33380

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DES

Storage of Pupils' Personal Belongings

London, HMSO, 1980. 39pp inc b&w photos, drawings etc. Pictoral wraps 29x21. Nice copy. Building Bulletin 58. Attempts to find solutions to the perennial problems of storing coats, bags etc so they are easily accessible, secure and tidy and leave the maximum amount of space possible for teaching. Good illustrations.

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ACCUM Frederick

A Practical Treatise on Gas-Light: exhibiting a summary description of the Apparatus and Machinery best calculated for Illuminating Streets, Houses, and Manufactories, with Carburetted Hydrogen, or Coal=Gas: with Remarks on the Utility, Safety, and general Nature of this new ranch of Civil Economy.

London, Stereotyped and Printed by Davies and Michael for R Ackermann 1815 (Second Edition) xvii, 194pp, 7 coloured plates of which two are fold out, 6pp publisher's catalogue 26x17, rebound in red cloth, glt text Cloth a bit rubbed and marked; the original pages have a small number of margin marks and a couple of annotations, several pages have tape marks from a previous binding, edges are uncut and slightly wavey, first fold out plate is splitting along a fold, fair to good copy overall of a rare and important publication. Accum was one of the driving forces behind the adoption of gas lighting in London in the early years of the 19th century. He was also interested in food processing, and wrote a widely read book on the adulteration of food that stemmed from industrial processes using newly discovered chemicals without regard for their safety. The ensuring controversy led to him leaving London for his native Germany.

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ACKERLEY R. O.

An Introduction to the Science of Artificial Lighting

London, E. & F.N. Spon, 1948. 135pp inc 32 b&w plates & 41 text figs. Cloth. 22x14. Owner's bookplate. Good copy in chipped dust wrapper. Much had been learnt from wartime experiences.

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Book number: 29181

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ADORIAN Paul

The Story of Gibbon's Mill [and 2 other items]

London, SPAB, 1970 23pp, incl 3 figs. Pamphlet. Stiff card covers. Sun marked (not too bad), else good. The Mill is in Rudgwick, West Sussex. It is very ancient. It is now possibly the oldest hydro-electric station in the UK. SOLD WITH: two other watermill pamphlets ("Sarehole Mill Guide" by Anna E Merideth, 1970; "Wanted! Waterwheels" by J. Kenneth Major, c1965).

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Book number: 33849

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ANDERSON Matthew

The Book and Programme of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway Centenary: LMR 1830 - LMS 1930

Liverpool, Liverpool Organisation Ltd 1930 124pp, bw images, many advertisements and notices 25x19, illustrated wraps. Wraps split and rubbed, contents good. Published as part of the centenary celebrations of the Liverpool to Manchester railway, of Rocket fame.

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ASQUITH Rt Hon H.H.

Ancient Universities & the Modern World

Glasgow, James Lehose for the University 1907. 27pp, uncut. Stiff card wraps 22x15. Very nice copy. An address delivered before the University of Glasgow on January 11th, 1907

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Book number: 15035

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BAKER T and DIXON FE

Land and Engineering Surveying for Students and Practical Use

London, Crosby Lockwood, 1905 (20th edition) xiv, 236pp, numerous illustrations, 72pp publishers advertisements, vi pp advertisements for Stanley Surveying Instruments bound in. 18x13, embossed cloth. Cover slightly rubbed with small water splash mark and faint cup ring mark, contents very good. From the Weale's Scientific and Technical Series.

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Book number: 33923

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BEDDINGTON Nadine

Design for Shopping Centres

London, Butterworth, 1982. xiv, 177pp, very many photos & drawings, glossary, bibliog. Cloth. 28x22. Very good copy in dust wrapper, this with small chip on top edge. Owner's stamp on front end paper and 4 further stamps in book. Detailed 1980s account, including 28 case studies. Author had designed many shopping centres. European and US influences examined.

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Book number: 9108

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BEDDINGTON Nadine

Shopping Centres. Retail Development, Design and Management

London, Butterworth, (1981), 2nd revised ed, 1991. xiii, 236pp, very many photos & drawings, glossary, bibliog. Boards, 31x22. Very good copy. Much revised edition of Design for Shopping Centres.

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Book number: 30188

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BENNETT Ira E

History of the Panama Canal: Its Construction and Builders

Washington DC, Historical Publishing Company 1915 ('Builder's Edition') xi, 543pp, bw photographic plates throughout. 29x22, green cloth, quarter bound in brown leather, glt lettering, five raised bands, marbled endpapers. Some wear to leather, particularly corners where one part of the surface is missing, contents very good indeed. Beautifully made and presented commemorative publication, presumably paid for by the firms it celebrates. Excellent illustrations, with text describing the history of Panama from the arrival of the Spanish in the late 15th century onwards. The photographs of the construction of the canal are particularly good. [Heavy item, may require additional postage]

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BIRKBECK Dr et al

A Lecture on the Preservation of Timber by Kyan's Patent for Preventing Dry Rot, Delivered by... [Bound together with] Copy of The Report From the Committee Appointed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to Investigate Mr Kyan's Patent for the Prevention of Dry Rot in Timber, etc, with Extracts from the Minutes of Evidence; A Lecture on The Dry Rot and on the Most Effectual Means of Preventing It, Delivered Before the Institute of British Architects, April 3, 1837 by Robert Dickson

London, John Weale; London, J&C Adlard; London, J&C Adlard 1834; (1835) 1837; 1837 48pp, 3 plates [Birkbeck]; 46pp [Lords Commissioners Report]; 50pp [Dickson] 21x14, maroon cloth, glt text spine. Very light foxing on some pages, otherwise very good copies indeed in relatively recent binding, very well done. Dry rot was a perennial concern for the Royal Navy as well as builders, and Kyan had patented a new method of treating timbers with bichloride of mercury to prevent it. These various lectures and hearings were very positive about the results, but longer experience discovered problems with the costs and efficacy of the method - not least that any metal fixings attached to the timber tended to dissolve - and by the 1850s it was overtaken by new preservation techniques like creosoting.

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