Author: E. Dobson
Title: A Rudimentary Treatise on Foundations and Concrete Works Containing a Synopsis of the Principal Cases of Foundation Works, with the Usual Modes of Treatment, and Practical Remarks on Footings, Timber-Planking, Sand, Concrete, and Beton, Pile-Driving, Caissons, and Cofferdams; with an Account of the New Mole Executed in Beton at the Harbour of Algiers.
Description: London, John Weale, 1850. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this nineteenth century treatise on foundations and concrete works. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. This book is part of the series "Mr. Weale's Series of Rudimentary Works for the Use of Beginners", and focuses on foundation works, with chapters on footings, planking, sand, concrete, beton, pile-driving, caissons and cofferdams. Many diagrams accompany the text. 8 pages of publisher's advertisements to the front of the volume. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally sound, with some soiling to the front board and bumping to the extremities. Internally, the binding is strained in a couple of places. Pages are generally bright and clean, apart from some soiling to the front paste down. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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