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255pp., illus. 29 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
2 vols. Hardcover Very good condition, spines faded
No marks or inscriptions. Slight creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 191pp. This encyclopedic work presents close to fifty different patterns that are sure to fit any door need. With step-by-step instructions, hundreds of valuable pattern drawings, photos and illustrations plus all you need to know about hardware, installation, maintenace and repair. Very scarce in the UK.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous plates, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in darker blue, mild age-stain at head (not affecting text), a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with mild age-stain (just affecting boards) at head of backstrip.
551p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations and diagrams throughout; original laminated boards, a near fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE
320 pages. Index. "Through hundreds of diagrams, close-up photographs and easy-to-follow directions, you'll find out how to measure, construct, sand, oil, lacquer and assemble European cabinets. And you'll see how easy it is to incorporate the unique European designs, techniques, tools, materials, and hardware into traditional cabinetmaking systems." - from back cover. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Worthy reference copy. Book
213 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations. "Here is the complete, step-by-step illustrated information to help you make perfect joints every time." - from back cover. Book
3 vols., roy. 8vo., with many hundreds of illustrations and diagrams throughout; green cloth, upper boards blocked in blind, gilt backs, a near fine set.
Volumes 1 & 2 in one book. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty page edges, clear gilt lettering to spine and no bumping to corners. 382 + 385pp. A lavish work covering the history of English furniture from the 15th century and woodwork from the fourteenth century up to the end of the 17th century. The woodwork covers such as stairways, doors and church decoration. and much more. The furniture includes domestic clocks. Very well illustrated. A heavy book.
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. Very large format book with plates in b&w fine line drawnigs, often scaled mechanical drawings from the 18th century depicting such trades as Agriculture and rural arts, War, Iron foundry and forge, Extractive industries, Metal working, Glass, Masonry & carpentry, Textiles, Paper and printing, Leather, Gold, silver & jewelry, Fashion, etc.
Full gray cloth boards. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 9 1/4"w x 12 1/8"h. Very large format book with plates in b&w fine line drawings, often scaled mechanical drawings from the 18th century depicting such trades as Agriculture and rural arts, War, Iron foundry and forge, Extractive industries, Metal working, Glass, Masonry & carpentry, Textiles, Paper and printing, Leather, Gold, silver & jewelry, Fashion, etc.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight bindin. Full brown cloth boards. 146 pages. Black and white photographs. "The reminiscences recorded in this book are nearly all those of our old carpentry business prior to my grandfather's death in the year 1893."
New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (28 x 20 cm). In Turkish. 478 p., b/w ills. Sanâyi'-i insâiye ve mi'mâriyeden dogramacilik, marangoz ve silicilik i'mâlât¿na âid mebâhis. Prep. by Süleyman Faruk Göncüoglu, Davut Türksever.
126 pages. Features: Foundation Forms That Insulate; Bed Alcove; Framing a Cross-Gable Roof; Running Baseboard Efficiently; A House Without Barriers; A Dry-Laid Stone Stairway; Cutting Against the Grain; Jewelbox Bathroom; Funds for Fixer-Uppers; Simple Joinery for Custom Windows; Small House, Big Heater; Hand Planes for Trim Carpentry. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
238 pages. Index. Extensively illustrated with black and white photos and diagrams. Charts and tables. A wartime text "especially written for carpenters and other woodworkers who desire to engage in boat or ship building, and as a textbook for schools." - subtitle. Amazingly, a prior owner has neatly handwritten over twenty pages of pertinent notes on and near front and back endpaper! Some additional markings to contents. Binding intact. Somewhat above-average external wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
168 pages. Index. Text in German. Many black and white illustrations and diagrams. Appears to be circa 1930 as this is when the Foreword was written. Title page missing. Many pencil markings to contents. Covers present but almost loose from textblock. Above-average wear. A worthy copy of this vintage German carpentry text. Book
Full Title: "ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF CARPENTRY. A Treatise on the Pressure and Equilibrium of Timber Framing, the Resistance of Timber, and the Construction of Floors, Centres, Bridges, Roofs; Uniting Iron and Stone with Timber, etc. To Which is Added an Essay on the Nature and Properties of Timber. 4th Edition, Corrected and Considerably Enlarged. With an Appendix Containing Specimens of Various Ancient and Modern Roofs, by Peter Barlow." pp. xxiv, 333 + Fifty-three (53) engraved plates [as called for], some folding. Old age stain. Partially unopened. Small folio. Original full cloth binding, embossed in blind. Thomas Tredgold (1788-1829) was an important English architect and engineer. In 1813 he joined William Atkinson, architect to the ordnance in London, and in 1823 went into private practice as a civil engineer. These 'Elementary Principles of Carpentry' were first published in 1820. He also wrote 'Strength of Cast Iron' (1821), and 'The Steam Engine' (1827). Scarce and significant. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W150 / DC
First Edition, 4to, xx,250,[2]pp., without half-title, 22 engraved plates (3 double-page), some light spotting to text and plates, orig. cloth, a little faded. The rare first edition of a work that was continually reprinted and updated throughout the 19th and well into the 20th centuries.
Folio, Best Edition, with 100 engraved plates and many hundreds of wood-engraved illustrations in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; attractively bound in black half calf, brown cloth sides, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second compartment with red leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, red sprinkled edges, backstrip lightly scuffed at edges else a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp copy. Lovely copy of the best edition of this immensely detailed manual, first published in 1857. In this edition several of the plates have been improved by the introduction of new figures, and several new plates added. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Fourth edition, revised and corrected by the author, 4to, [20]pp., signatures: [A]-K4, each leaf of letterpress has its own signature and many of the rectos are blank, 83 engraved plates, text and plates age toned, title page creased, fore-edge a little frayed and repaired with archival paper, some light water staining and foxing throughout, recent half calf in a period style, marbled boards, five raised bands, spine decorated in blind and gilt, red morocco title label. Bound in at the back is a folio sheet: A Catalogue of Modern Books on Architecture, &c. Theoretical, practical, and ornamental; which, with the best Ancient Authors, are constantly on sale at I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library, no. 56, High Holborn, London. [London, s.n., 1788?]. folio, [2]pp., 57 items listed, inner margin repaired with archival paper with the loss of several words, ESTC no. T121354. Archer, 240.4; Harris, 643; ESTC returns a single copy located at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin for this fourth revised edition.
First edition, 4to (270 x 215 mm), 5, [11]pp., with the final advert leaf, [20]pp., 83 engraved plates (the contents of which are well represented in the title), some light foxing throughout, some minor worming to upper blank margin of first few leaves, recent calf calf, red morocco label to spine. Archer, 240.1; Harris, 640.