NATIONAL BUILDING AGENCY

The First Ten Years...NBA '64 - '74

London, NBA 1974 12pp, many bw photographs. 30x21, illustrated wraps. Very good. Promotional piece marking the anniversary of the agency's creation. Several projects illustrated, some (very dull) pictures of the board of directors; the highlight is the strikingly good design of the piece itself, including the NBA logo in three colours - good enough for the rather more famous organisation of the same name, perhaps!

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Book number: 35686

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NATIONAL BUILDING AGENCY

What Is the NBA?; Improvement Areas; NBA Case Note - Belfast; NBA Case Note - Sheffield; NBA Case Note - Darwen; Services for Housing Associations (6 different documents)

London, NBA nd c.1974 8pp; 6pp; 4pp; 4pp; 4pp; 4pp - two colour diagrams, photos etc. 30x21, card pamphlets. Very good. Nice collection of NBA publications from the 1970s, showcasing its work and the advice and services it offered.

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Book number: 35687

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O'NEILL Hugh

Stone for Building

London, Heinemann, on behalf of the British Stone Federation 1965 xii, 198pp, 22 bw plates. 22x15, grey covered boards. Corners bumped, otherwise very good. Useful summary, with very nice plates.

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Book number: 36713

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NESBIT A

A Treatise on Practical Mensuration in Eight Parts.

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green / York, Wilson and Sons, 1824 (3rd edition, corrected and improved) xxiv, 436pp, many tables and diagrams. 17x11, calf, red label glued to spine. Well-used copy, with pencil annotations, some ink, covers edge rubbed and worn, calf on spine cracking, binding firm, good thus. One of the classic practical texts for the developing profession of surveying for the building and architecture industries.

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Book number: 36938

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NEUFFER W

Die Eisenbeton-Senkkasten der neuen Rheinbrücke zwischen Ludwigshafen und Mannheim.

Berlin, Wilhelm Ernst, 1933. 12pp incl photos, sections, measured drawings etc. Card covers. 34x25. Very good. Special issue of 'Beton u Eisen'. [1933, Heft 1,2]

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Book number: 21630

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NICHOLS T.B.

An Introduction to Masonry

English Universities Press 1936 xi, 169pp 19x13, blue cloth with black lettering and decoration Very good. Owner's name on fep. Nicely produced guide from the Instructor in Masonry at the LCC School of Building, Brixton.

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Book number: 33905

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NICHOLSON Peter

The Carpenter's New Guide: being a Complete Book of Lines, for Carpentry and Joinery Treating fully of practical geometry, soffits, brick and plaister groins, niches of every description, sky-lights, lines for roofs and domes... On eighty-four copper plates...

London, J Taylor 6th ed, 1814 (corrected and enlarged) viii, 87pp, 84 plates, [5], 8pp publisher's notices 27x22, calf, crudely rebacked with treated black cloth, no text on spine Covers heavily worn, the (re)binding in cloth is heavily worn, some foxing and marks on contents, binding loose, end-papers splitting, owner's name three times in elegant script on fep, overall a fair copy. Enlarged version of this notable work by Nicholson.The owner, one William Annis of Sproxton in Leicestershire, appears to have been practicising his very best handwriting on the endpapers, a nice personal touch.

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Book number: 36959

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NICHOLSON Peter

The Carpenter's New Guide: being a Complete Book of Lines, for Carpentry and Joinery Treating fully of practical geometry, soffits, brick and plaister groins, niches of every description, sky-lights, lines for roofs and domes... On seventy-eight copper plates...

London, J Taylor [5th ed] 1808 (A New Edition) x, 76pp, 78 plates, 2pp publisher's notices 26x21, green cloth, paste on label on spine Cloth worn and grubby, splitting along spine with pulling and small areas loss at top and bottom, fep missing, damp marks on last couple of pages and rep, slight browning and marks throughout, pencil written owners's name on ffep, fair to good thus. One of several revised Taylor editions of this classic work; as often, this is a working copy with signs of use. This is the fifth edition, although it is not numbered as such; Taylor published a 4th edition in 1805 and a 6th edition in 1814.

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Book number: 38660

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NICHOLSON Peter

The New Practical Builder, and Workman's Companion: containing a full display and elucidation of the most recent and skilful methods, pursued by architects and artificers, in the various departments of carpentry, joinery, bricklaying, masonry, slating, plumbing, painting, glazing, plastering, &c &c....... [2 volumes]

London, Thomas Kelly, 1823. Fp, title, 596pp, continuously paginated plus text figs, 8pp law report ), 182 plates, variously numbered, some folding, as usual bound with Elsam, "The Practical Builder's Perpetual Price-book", fp,180pp 27x22, tooled leather, glt lettering to spine, marbled edges Spines rather worn, front board of Vol II detached, good thus. One of Nicholson's most important works (cf Archer 225.1), this is the first Kelly edition in a particularly attractive binding. [Very heavy item, will require additional postage to most destinations]

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Book number: 38640

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NICHOLSON Peter, HAY John

Nicholson's New Carpenter's Guide; Being A complete Book of Lines for Carpenters, Joiners, Cabinet Makers, and Workmen in General. An Enlarged and Improved Edition, By John Hay, Esq. Architect. The Theory and Practice Explained by Numerous Engravings

London and New York, George Virtue (1792) 1850 xii, 122pp, 8pp, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title-page, 121 engraved plates, 28x24, half calf on boards, five raised bands, glt text. Leather significantly rubbed, some edge rubbing, small area of loss on bottom of spine, edges a little grubby, very good thus. Nicholson's brilliance as both a carpenter and practical mathematician helped to make his Guide one of the most importance guide books for the 18th and 19th century craftsman.

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Book number: 36042

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NICHOLSON Peter

Nicholson's New Carpenter's Guide: being a complete book of lines, for carpenters, joiners, and workmen in general, on methods entirely new, founded on geometrical principles.

London, Jones (1792) 1825. (improved and enlarged ed) Fp portrait, xii (mostly 'memoir of Peter Nicholson'), 121pp, c. 121 plates, title page and first two pages of "A Practical Treatise on Mensuration" bound in at the end. 28x22, marbled boards, vellum spine, title on label with glt text. Boards a bit worn, especially on edges, significant water mark on a number of the plates (as these are bound in opposite the relevant text description pages, which are not affected, it is clear that the work has rebound at some point). Enlarged version of this notable work. Nicholson's brilliance as both a carpenter and practical mathematician helped to make his Guide one of the most importance guide books for the 18th and 19th century craftsman.

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Book number: 36916

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NICHOLSON Peter, revised by Thomas TREDGOLD

Practical Carpentry, Joinery, and Cabinet-Making; being a new and complete system of lines for the use of workmen.

London, Thos. Kelly, 1847. iv, 140pp, 36pp, lxxxiv plates, vi further plates. 28x22, marbled boards, gilt lettered leather spine. Rubbed and marked, front board detached, substantial piece of the spine missing, rear hinge cracked, contents intact and tight, some foxing, bottom edges damp marked. Like previous Kelly editions, this took the original two volumes and printed them together (it is difficult to perceive what Tredgold's revisions might amount to), with seperate paginations. Would make a nice restoration project.

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Book number: 36620

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NICHOLSON Peter, revised by Thomas TREDGOLD

Practical Carpentry, Joinery, and Cabinet-Making; being a new and complete system of lines for the use of workmen.

London, Thos. Kelly, 1847. viii, 140pp, 36pp (vol I) lxxxiv plates, vi further plates (Vol II) 28x22, marbled boards, half bound in leather, glt lettering. Small piece of spine missing on vol I, small label on front of each volume, owner's hand-written label (DS Morrison of Scarfskerry), some pages creased, generally good copy of a working book. This version of Nicholson's classic work included options for binding the plates either at the end or separately, or after specific pages of text - in this case the former approach has been taken. The three books of Nicholson's original are all included in the first volume, with books I and II paginated consecutively and book III separately.

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Book number: 36925

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NICHOLSON Peter, revised by Thomas TREDGOLD

Practical Carpentry, Joinery, and Cabinet-Making; being a new and complete system of lines for the use of workmen.

London, Thos. Kelly, 1865 xxxvi, 140pp, 36pp, 32pp (The Practical Builders Price Book), 107 plates (109 called for) 29x23, marbled boards, half bound in leather. Boards and spine worn and rubbed, remains of tape repairs on front board and title page, re-bound, browning to most plates; 109 plates called for, 107 present. A later Kelly edition of Nicholson's classic work, with additional plates added (the comparison in quality with Nicholson's originals is striking), and a copy of The Practical Builder's Price Book bound in. The binding instructions list 109 plates, but only 107 are present - whether this is because they are missing or because the instructions were wrong isn't clear.

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Book number: 36926

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NOTHHELFER Karl (intro)

Ein Vorfabriziertes Serienhaus Une Maison de Série Préfabriquée/ A Prefabricated Serial House.

Ravensburg, Otto Meier, 1949. 48pp incl photos, drawings, plans. German, French, English text. Opening text by Dip l. Ing. Zuth. Stiff card wraps, 28x20. Very good copy. This was a prefabricated serial house-type, in panel construction. Nothhelfer was the designer. His book describes its construction over the course of a week, with many illustrations and plans. The work included much detailing, including window shutters and even built-in furniture.

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Book number: 34075

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