Van Gaasbeek, Richard M.MareMagnum
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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
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.
Pages well browned. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean tight copy with dull lightly marked boards, sunned spine and slight bumping/rubbing to corners. 272pp.
Pages slightly browned. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean tight copy with dull lightly marked boards, sunned and rubbedspine and slight rubbing to corners. 240 + 140 + 20pp. January to December 1953, January to July 1954, August 1958.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked very slightly rubbed faux leather boards and no bumping to corners. 671pp. How to make so many things. Crafts, skills, with timber, electrics, decorating, a rabbit hutch, repairing a lawn mower and so much more. Undated ca 1950s.
79 p., illus. Paperback Very good condition
95 p., illus. Paperback Very good condition
96 p., illus. Paperback Very good condition
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
History of the Sanders family from 17thC Essex to 20thC Bethnal Green. Illustrated. 230 pages. Index. Illustrated. Dedication from author on half-title page.
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."
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very tiny rub to front. 199pp. This book studies the style of furniture rather than minutiae, with changes in construction and design which followed from new techniques. With over 100 photographs and many line-drawings.
698p. + Index. Illustrated with numerous photographs and drawings. 4to. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, worn at extremities. Hardbound. ARCH BOX 2
551p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
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.
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.
255pp., illus. 29 cm. 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
2 vols. Hardcover Very good condition, spines faded
95 p., illus. Paperback Very good condition
256pp. 29 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
143pp. 26 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, bump to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Clear bright gilt lettering to spines and no browning or foxing to pages or to slightly dusty page edges. 329pp. Volume I only.
