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CUCCI Mario.
Il libro del bridge.
Mario Cucci, autore di quel fortunato corso autodidattico che è "Il bridge naturale", ci propone un agile manuale, di svelta consultazione, rivolto a coloro che, avendo un'infarinatura del gioco, desiderano fissare rapidamente alcuni punti e nozioni ancora oscuri o difficili. Per agevolare la ricerca, il volume è scandito in molti brevissimi capitoli, ciascuno dedicato a un particolare momento licitativo. Altri capitoletti forniscono le tabelle delle percentuali delle probabilità. Chiude il volume un glossario dei termini del gioco. Esemplare intonso. Brossura editoriale illustrata, pp. 175, in 8°
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STAYMAN Samuel.
Il sistema Stayman completo del Bridge contratto
Prefazione di Mario Franco. Esemplare perfetto. Brossura editoriale a stampa, pp. 321, in 16°
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FERRANDO Giovanni.
Impariamo il bridge.
Numerosi schemi di gioco. Ottimo esemplare. Brossura editoriale illustrata, pp. 179, in 8° p.
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Chatani, Masahiro; Nakazawa, Keiko
Great American Buildings : Origami Cutouts of Everybody's Favorite Landmarks
Make charming replicas of your favorite American landmarks with this inspiring collection of 25 original origami models. Patterns, instructions, and historical commentary. Previous owner's name inside. 10 1/8"w x 14 1/2"h. You can make these buildings: Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, AT&T Building, Trump Tower, Flatiron Building, Statue of Liberty, Manhattan Skyline, Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Capitol Building, White House (front and back), National Air & Space Museum, Dulles International Airport, Carpenter Center, Gateway Arch, Republic Bank Center, Marina City, Crown Hall, Johnson Wax Building, Hyat Regency Hotel, Golden Gate Bridge, TransAmerica Pyramid, San Francisco Skyline, and the Hollywood Sign.
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Grotvedt, Paul (ed.)
Ad Fontes: The Art and Projects of Vebjorn Sand
A clean, unmarked copy (except for note on endpaper). Many illustrations. 152 pages.
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No Author Listed
Glulam Bridge Systems Plans & Details
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Very large oblong format, Light scuffing and general wear to covers. Text/interior clean and unmarked. Short history of timber and glulam bridge construction, typical design math for glulam deck and girders, 10 pages of engineering drawings showing elevations, sections, statistic and detail pages by Hurlbut, Kersich & McCullough followed by 5 outlines, with photos, of completed pedestrian bridges.
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No Author
Glulam Bridge Systems; Plans and Details
Very large oblong format, Light scuffing and general wear to covers. Text/interior clean and unmarked. Short history of timber and glulam bridge construction, typical design math for glulam deck and girders, 10 pages of engineering drawings showing elevations, sections, statistic and detail pages by Hurlbut, Kersich & McCullough followed by 5 outlines, with photos, of completed pedestrian bridges.
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No Author
Standard Plans for Southern Pine Bridges
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. 26 pages depicting General Layout and notes, General details, Rail option details, Fabrication details, Materials and construction recommendations, Construction recommendations & Design procedure for both Stress-laminated sawn lumber decks and Stress-laminated glued laminated timber decks with another section on Longitudinal stringer with transverse plank decks. Large oblong format with very detailed architectural drawings created for use by "smaller highway departments with limited engineering staff." Staple-bound. 16 5/8"w x 10 5/8"h.
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Jia Xiao / Xiaojia
Chinese Residence / Chinese Folk House / Zhongguo min Ju
119 pages nearly entirely of large, sometimes full page, color photos of Chinese residential architecture and architectural detail from seven areas in China and Tibet in an oversize, oblong format. Captions both in Chinese and English. Lots of unusual examples: "two storey round earth-built tower,""log cabin of Tibetan residents." "carved beams in Langshelin Villa". Upper corner of front cover is damaged and lower corner of same is missing piece of dust jacket, general wear and scuffing otherwise to dust jacket. Interior/text is clean and unmarked in any way. Very unusual volume.
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Gellatly, Judy
Mercer Island: The First 100 Years
Book has edgewear to covers, clean & unmarked inside and out; 149 pages, many b&w photos.
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Hungry Wolf, Adolf & Okan
Canadian Railway Stories : 100 Years of History and Lore
Translated by Burton Raffel, Forword by Robert Creed. Light wear only to uncreased covers, sharp corners, text/interior is free of marking of any kind. 121 pages. In Business for 21 years, we provide excellent and responsive customer service and pack in padded shipping material.
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Boer, Friedrich
All About A Container Ship
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 112 pages. Edge wear on dust jacket. Many b&w photos and illustrations. "This book describes in detail a modern full container ship. It indicates the functions of the many parts of the ship and how the various technical sections combine to work together. It also goes into the work of the crew that serves such a complicated whole."
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Shipsides, Frank
Bristol Impressions
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 83 pages. Small spot on cover and dust jacket. 7 5/8" w x 10"h. Artist Frank Shipsides illustrates buildings, streets, landmarks, and curiosities of Bristol, England in 57 pen and ink drawings.
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Sasek, Miroslav
This Is London
Paper-covered boards show wear, marks and bumps on corners; tears at top and bottom of spine. 60 pages. Large format: 9"w x 12 1/2"h. The second book in the "This Is" travel series for children by the Czech architect turned children's book illustrator, Miroslave Sasek. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. Printed in bright colors on heavy, cream colored paper. Previous owner's name sticker.
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Khromov, Oleg
Progulki po Sankt-Peterburgu: Akvareli, graviury, litografii (Russian Edition) Strolls Around Saint Petersburg: Watercolors, Engravings, Lithographs
Book is in excellent condition in a large oblong format with light shelf wear only to covers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind with a great many full page, full color prints. 79 pages, includes cloth weighted bookmark. Text is in English and Russian and features watercolors of V.S. Sadovnikov,
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The Great East River Bridge, 1883-1983
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name inside. 180 pages. 9"w x 12"h. Exhibition catalog for show at The Brooklyn Museum. Many photographs. Fold-out illustrations.
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Corbett, 0590074644
Bridges
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Edge wear and small tears to price-clipped dust jacket. 122 pages. Black and white illustrations.
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Staff
Celebrating Excellence in Wood Architecture: 2016 -17 Wood Design Award Winners
Book is in excellent condition with very light wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 416 pages full of full page color photos, floor plans, elevations, landscape drawings, etc. Features include:Wild Turkey distillery complex, Inout house, the Smile, Wrap house, Linear cabin, Michigan lake house, Newberg residence, North main, Point house, Immanuel church and paris centre, Cologne, Mont-Blanc base camp, Nanjing Wanjing garden chapel, Grandview Heights aquatic centre, T3, Samuel Beckett civic campus, et al.
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Staff
The Glories of the Thames from Lechlade to Kingston
Book shows fading to spine with a small tear at top. Creaseless covers, binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 49 pages with many b&w photos. Chapters include: Lechlade to Oxford, Oxford to Wallingford, Wallingford to Reading, Reading to Maindenhead, Maidenhead to Kinston; with subchapters of all places in between.
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Senior; W. D. Maccoll; J. Penderel-Brodhurst;Bonney, R.R.S. H Schutz Wilson; Godfrey Wordswo9rth Turner,; Edmund Ollier; Aaron Watson; J. Runciman
The Royal River: The Thames from Source to Sea; Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial
Book is in excellent condition, as new.. 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. 367 pages with b&w illustrations and maps throughout. Chapters include: Above Oxford, Oxford to Abingdon, Abingdon to Streatley, Streatley to Henley, Henley to Maindenhead, Maidenhead to Windson, Windsor to Hampton Court, Hampton Court to Richmond, Richmond to Battersea, Battersea to London Bridge, London Bridge to Gravesend, Gravesend to the Nore.
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West Seattle Freeway Design Report: 36th Avenue S.W. To Interstate 5
Plastic comb binding. 11 1/4"w x 11"h. 108 pages. Wear to cover. Some fold-out pages. Many illustrations, plans, and photos. "The West Seattle Freeway Design Study examines the entire freeway route and its relationship to the larger Seattle traffic circulation pattern in order to resolve the broad questions of moving people and goods east and west between West Seattle and the highway connections at Alaskan Freeway and Interstate 5."
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McNaughton, Margaret
Overland to Cariboo: An Eventful Journey of Canadian Pioneers to the Gold-Fields of British Columbia in 1862
Book is in excellent condition with very minor shelf wear only.. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 176 pages, author is described on the title page as "Wife of one of the pioneers." With portraits and illustrations.
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Rose, Alan
Build Your Own Tower Bridge and Tower of London
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Edge wear and small blemish from price tag removal on cover. Printed on one-side only on heavy cardstock. Includes step-by-step, illustrated instructions, clearly numbered pieces, and an exploding diagram for easy assembly.
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Smith, F. Hopkinson
In Dickens's London
Book has covers with small stains, bumped corners, and light edgewear. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind, charcoal drawings by the author. Contents includes: George Inn, where Mr. Pickwick first met Sam Weller; In Lant street, where Bob Sawyer had his lodgings, and one of his haunts -- The Ship and Shovel; Number 48 Doughty Street, where Dickens lived and where he wrote the last chapters of The Pickwick Papers; The George and Vulture, London Bridge, where Noah Claypole dogged Nancy sykes's steps the night she was murdered, etc.
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Fish, Harriet U.
Law Enforcement in Washington State: The First One-Hundred Years 1889-1989
Book is in excellent condition with a tiny bit of wear at lower corners only. Dark blue cloth covers with embossed gilt print at cover and spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 319 pages in oblong format. Chapters include: Beginning in law and order, Causatives in (same), Marshals -- their jails and detention, codes, courts and governments, Agencies develop, Training to professionalism, Death in the line of duty, Progressions in looks, equipment, mobility, communications, etc. Heavily illustrated with photos, some highlights include the contents displayed of two WA St. patrol cars, one in 1960 and one in 1988; air surviellance over the years, crashes, bridge being swept away by log debris, motorcycle cop stunts, Still and pot raids, drug busts and killings, Green River murders, Kenneth Bianchi, Lists of marshals and chiefs from all over Wa state, directors of the Secret Service, State Patrol, etc. Inscribed on the title page by author to noted N.W. historian Paul Dorpat with letter from same to same. First edition #939 of a run of 2000.
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Jackson, Peter
London Bridge
Book is in excellent condition in tan cloth covers with silver print. 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, wrapped in protective jacket. 134 pages, heavily illustrated with b&w drawings throughout. "First Published" is on Publisher's page.
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Herbert, John
Port of London, the
Book is in excellent condition with very slight edge wear and a bump to the lower back edge. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows edge wear and small tears.49 pages with color and b&w illustrations. Contents include: the Gun Wharf, Tower of london, Chiswick reach, wharves, Brewery below Waterloo bridge, Italian bridge, Richmond House, etc.
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Adams W. Bridges
Shakespeare Country, the: With a History of the Festival Theatre and Company
Large format paperback with light shelf wear only to covers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind, lavishly illustrated with 1 - 4 sepia photos on glossy paper per page, map at back cover. 48 pages with images of Stratford, Malvern Hills, the Coswolds, the Shires, Halls Croft, Latin School-room, Gild Chapel, Clopton Bridge, Cliffor Manor, Warwick castle, Beauchamp Chapel, Guy's Cliffe, Stoneleigh Abbey, Baddesley Clinton, Compton Wynyates, Honington Hall, Sulgrave Manor, etc.
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W.Schock, James
Bridge, The: A Celebration: The Golden Gate Bridge at Sixty
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Huge book: 10 1/2" x 13 1/2" 296 pages with a bump to the lover front cover as the only flaw, though text block is slighly wavy, could be publisher's error, as there are no other signs of moisture contact. Filled with b&w photos thoroughout, some full page, most very large. Contents are a series of questions, chronologically arranged, such as When did the construction of the main cables begin? Do the tops of the towers actually move? Did they really consider putting a second deck on the bridge? etc. Pages 157 -- 287 are Highlights from Annual Reports from the Highway and Transportation District Staff and Board of Directors. The final seciton details the Seismic retrofit and design. Impressive volume.
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Jones, E. B.
Instrument Technology: Volume I, Measurement of Pressure, Level, Flow and Temperature
Ex-library book from Princeton University with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 376 pages full of math formulae, b&w photos, mechanical drawings, tables, charts, graphs; very detailed as to the construction and operation of the instruments described. Contents include: Measurement of pressure ( calibration, seals and purge systems, etc.) Measurement of level (direct methods, presure operated instruments) Measurement of flow (quantity meaters, rate-of-flow, direct measurement of velocity, pressure differential methods, Measurement of temperature (expansion of solids, liquids, gases, change of state themometers, electrical methods, electrical resistance bulbs, thermistors, themo-couples, moving coil indicators, wheatstones's bridge methods, potentionmetric methods, Radiation pyrometers, (total radiation, optical, photo-electric.
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American Japanese Sight Seeing Coloring and Talking Book
Large format, staple-bound. 10"w x 14 1/8"h. 28 pages. Lovely line drawings by N. Sugimura. Text in English and Japanese. Images depicting American sights with American people on one page with Japanese tourist attractions and Japanese people on the facing page.
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Mackey, Rex
Walk of the Oysters, The
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. 197 pages in black cloth HB covers, very neat, clean book.
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Kalfus, Melvin
Frederick Law Olmsted: The Passion of a Public Artist
Book is in excellent condition with very light scuffing only to heavy weave brown HB covers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Illustrated with b&w photos throughout. Contents include: Making of a free-soil journalist, Life in the literary republic, Architect in chief of central park, Sanitary commission and Mariposa, A philosophy of urban landscape design, Defending the vision, etc.
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Leonhardt, Fritz
Brucken / Bridges
Book is in excellent condition with deep brown cloth HB covers, silver print at spine. 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. 308 pages with color photos throughout, mechanical drawngs, architectural drawings, engineered drawings, models, sketches, arial photos, measured, structural diagrams, etc. Bridges of all types: pedestrian, train, auto, aquaducts, and of all kinds of materials: stone, steel, reinforced concrete etc. and of all type of design: suspension, cable stayed, haunched beam, beam, truss, arched, etc. Contents include: How is a bridge designed, Guidelines for the aesthetic design of bridges, Influence of alignment, Building materials, Old stone bridges, Pedestrian bridges, Bridges at grade separated junctions, Elevated street, Large beam bridges, Large arch and frame bridges, etc. Dual language in English and German. copyright Pistil Books, 2011
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Sloane, Eric
Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake, 1805
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Small bump on lower corner of front cover. A great many illustrations of tools, shops, trade skills of the time, such as making a wooden pail, grinding corn, hauling water, using a plumb-bob, making hay-ricks, rick ornaments, etc. 8 1/2"w x 11 1/4"h. 108 pages.
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DENIZ KUVVETLERI KOMUTANLIGI HIDROGRAFI YAYINLARI].
Marmara iskeleleri dokümani.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. 4to. (32 x 22 cm). In Turkish. [ix], 166 p., b/w ills. Old and contemporary piers of Marmara Region. Marmara iskeleleri dokümani.
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ÜNAL ÖZIS.
Su mühendisligi tarihi açisindan Anadoludaki eski su yapilari.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [x], 226 p., b/w ills. Old water structures in Anatolia. Su mühendisligi tarihi açisindan Anadoludaki eski su yapilari. First and Only Edition.
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Edited by FATIH ADANIR, IBRAHIM PARLADI, MEHMET DENIZ, SEREF NARLI et alli.
Kahramanmaras kültür envanteri. 6 volumes set in special box. Vol. 1: Kahramanmaras Beylik ve Osmanli dönemi dini yapilari. Vol. 2-3: Kahramanmaras Beylik ve Osmanli dönemi sivil mimarlik eserleri (Konutlar). 2 volumes Vol. 4: Kahramanmaras Beylik ve Osmanli dönemi çesmeleri ve köprüleri. Vol. 5: Kahramanmaras Beylik ve Osmanli dönemi han, hamam ve medreseleri. Vol. 6: Kahramanmaras Beylik ve Osmanli dönemi çarsilari.
New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. Large 8vo. (23 x 23 cm). In Turkish. 6 volumes set in publisher's special box: (480 p., folding map; 552 p.; 552-1104 p., folding map; 146 p., folding map; 123 p., folding map; 224 p., folding map), color and b/w ills., plts., photos, plans, and maps. Kahramanmaras kültür envanteri. 6 volumes set in special box. Vol. 1: Kahramanmaras Beylik ve Osmanli dönemi dini yapilari. Vol. 2-3: Kahramanmaras Beylik ve Osmanli dönemi sivil mimarlik eserleri (Konutlar). 2 volumes Vol. 4: Kahramanmaras Beylik ve Osmanli dönemi çesmeleri ve köprüleri. Vol. 5: Kahramanmaras Beylik ve Osmanli dönemi han, hamam ve medreseleri. Vol. 6: Kahramanmaras Beylik ve Osmanli dönemi çarsilari. Kahramanmaras city cultural inventory: Vol. 1: Religious buildings in the Anatolian Principalities and Ottoman period. Vol. 2-3: Civilian buildings in the Anatolian Principalities and Ottoman period. Vol. 4: Fountains and bridges in the Anatolian Principalities and Ottoman period. Vol. 5: Madrasahs, Turkish baths (hammams) and hans (inns) in the Anatolian Principalities and Ottoman period. Vol. 6: Bazaars in the Anatolian Principalities and Ottoman period.
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ORD. PROF. DR. A. SÜHEYL ÜNVER NAKISHANESI & FESTSCHRIFT NUSRET ÇOLPAN.
Konya'daki Selçuklu - Osmanli mimari eserleri ve bezemeleri. Ord. Prof. Dr. A. Süheyl Ünver Nakishanesi yorumuyla. Nusret Çolpan'in anisina. Prep. by Nil Sari, Gülbin Mesara, Ümit E. Kurt.
New English Original bdg. HC. 4to. (33 x 24 cm). In Turkish. 245 p., color ills. and photos. Konya'daki Selçuklu - Osmanli mimari eserleri ve bezemeleri. Ord. Prof. Dr. A. Süheyl Ünver Nakishanesi yorumuyla. Nusret Çolpan'in anisina. Seldjoukites and Ottoman architectural works and decorations in Konya City based on the Ord. Prof. Dr. A. Süheyl Ünver Nakishanesi and festschrift Nusret Çolpan.
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ESER TUTEL.
Iskeleler sehri Istanbul.
New English Original bdg. HC. 4to. (33 x 24 cm). In Turkish. 269, [2] p. Color and b/w ills. Historic gangboards (ferry piers) of Istanbul. Iskeleler sehri Istanbul. ISTANBUL Constantinople Ottoman sociel history Stemship Ship Transportation The Bosphorus The Golden Horn Haliç Bogaziçi.
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CONSORTIUM OF CONTRACTORS KINALI-SAKARYA MOTORWAY.
Construction of Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge.= Fatih Sultan Mehmet Köprüsü insaati.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. 4to. (30 x 21 cm). In English and Turkish. 32 p. Color ills. Construction of Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge.= Fatih Sultan Mehmet Köprüsü insaati.
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ÜNAL ÖZIS.
Çaglar boyunca Anadolu'da su mühendisligi.
Fine English Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [4], 64 p., color ills. Çaglar boyunca Anadolu'da su mühendisligi.", ÜNAL ÖZIS, TMMOB Insaat Mühendislari Odasi Istanbul Subesi, Ist., 1995. -- Arkeoloji Anadolu uygarliklari Mühendislik Su medeniyeti Sehircilik Mimari.
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Prep. by LIDA CASTELLI, MARIA VITTORIA CAPITANUCCI.
Yavuz Sultan Selim Köprüsü: Istanbul'un yeni simgesi. Edited by Barbara La Rosa.
New Turkish Original bdg. HC. Oblong 4to. (24 x 30 cm). In Turkish. 231, [19 p, color ills. Yavuz Sultan Selim Köprüsü: Istanbul'un yeni simgesi. Edited by Barbara La Rosa.
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Edited by MEHMET SAMSAKÇI.
Inscription plaques of Kosovo. He did not built for the disaster of fame.= Kosova kitâbeleri. Yapmadi ani söhret-i âfet için.= Gradevinama na Kosovu. Nije gradio zbog slave klete.= Mbishkrimet ne Kosove. Ate nuk e beri per nam.
New English Paperback. Pbo. 4to. (29 x 23 cm). In English, Turkish, Croatian, and Albanian. [iv], 268 p. Color and b/w ills. Ottoman architectural works (mosques, convents, mausoleums, Turkish baths, bridges, clock towers and fountains etc.) in Kosovo under the rule of Ottoman Empire from 1389 to Balkan Wars (1912-1913). Inscription plaques of Kosovo. He did not built for the disaster of fame.= Kosova kitâbeleri. Yapmadi ani söhret-i âfet için.= Gradevinama na Kosovu. Nije gradio zbog slave klete.= Mbishkrimet ne Kosove. Ate nuk e beri per nam.
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TYPE APPROUVE PAR DECISION DE S. E. LE MINISTRE DES TRAVAUX PUBLICS, A LA DATE DU 21 MAI 1328 / 3 JUIN 1912.
Empire Ottoman.; Etudes et construction des routes d'etat - Ouvrages d'art - Aqueduc dalle de 1m00 d'ouvertre.
Fine French Paperback. Open size: Oblong: 125x31 cm. In French. A stain on the upper right corner on the cover. Folded originally. Otherwise a very good copy. A huge folded pamphlet of aqueduct plan of the Imperial Ottoman state highway engineering structures survey and construction. Introduction in French starts as "Adopter autant que possible les tetes avec murs en alle principalement pour les ouvrages sous remblal. L'Aqueduc dalle de 1.00 m. ne pourra etre employe que si la difference de niveau entre le dessus du radler et le niveau de la platforme est inferieure a 1.75 m...". Full of plans. Not in OCLC. Scarce.
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President: H. E. SIR MILES LAMPSON, (1880-1964).
[RARE DESERT MOTOR-ROUTES FOR THE ANGLO-EGYPTIAN MOTORISTS] Egyptian Touring Association handbook 1939-40. Member of Alliance Internationale de Tourisme; federated with the Automobile Association of Great Britain. Preface by Sir Stenson Cooke.
Very Good English Original green cloth. Title gilt in black "Egyptian Touring Association" and "ETA logo" to the front board. Foolscap 8vo. (17,5 x 13 cm). In English. 110 p. with rich separate advertisements, and a fine folded b/w map titled "Desert motor-routes" on a scale of 1:4,000,000. Slightly fading on cloth, otherwise a fine copy. First and only edition of this rare complete and very detailed desert motor-routes' guide for the Anglo-Egyptian motorists, printed by the Egyptian Touring Association in Cairo, including details about hospitals, "what to do in cases of accidents on the roads", free legal defence, hotels, garages as well as itineraries, pedestrian crossings, speed limits in the country, parking regulations of Sharia Kasr el Nil, Adly Pasha, no-lights area, railway bridges, postal rates, exchange rates, rates of freight on motor cars by sea and rail, kilometers into miles, transcontinental road London - Istanbul with other useful information. This guide was explained in the introduction as "This handbook has been compiled for the benefit of members and is issued to them free. Extra copies may be obtained from the Head Office, 3 Sh. Cattawi Bey, Kasr el Nil, Cairo, at the price of P.T. 10. It contains a good deal of useful information regarding touring of all kinds in Egypt and abroad including a list of recommended hotels and garages throughout the country. "The president of the Association which was founded in 1932, was H.E. Sir Miles Lampson (1880-1964). He was a British diplomat who was appointed High Commissioner for Egypt and Sudan in 1934. As a result of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty in December 1936, to which Lampson was a signatory, Britain loosened its grip on Egypt and the post title was changed to Ambassador to Egypt and High Commissioner for Sudan in 1936. Lampson continued in this office until 1946. Vice presidents were Sir Stenson Cooke and J. A. Crawford. According to the ETA's service page of the guide, the purpose of the association can be determined as "Association was formed to provide a long-felt want in Egypt, that is, a touring club in the true sense of the word, devoted to the interests of all kinds of travelers. It's a non-profit making co-operative organization with the aim of making the path of the motorist, the airman, the camper, and every other kind of traveler pleasanter and smoother. The E.T.A. is officially recognized by the Egyptian Government and already in its short existence has grown enormously, being able to offer the following very real services to its members: Expert and detailed advice on all touring matters. Expert advice on motoring matters and vetting of cars. Free itineraries to all parts of Egypt and abroad. Reminders are sent to all members when a car and driving license is due for renewal. Renewal of car and driving licenses. Free legal defense for motoring offenses. Triptyques, carnets, and all documents for foreign touring, including passport arrangements. Agents at Alexandria, PortSaid, Suez, and the principal ports to look after the incoming and outgoing motorist and relieve him of all worry. A full stock of maps and guide books of Egypt and other countries. Up-to-date information on the state of roads and desert tracks. Welcome and help from the 100 odd touring clubs of the A.I.T. [i.e. the Alliance Internationale de Tourisme], of which the E.T.A. is a member. Recommended hotels and garages throughout Egypt and the Near East. Insurance for members can be effected at the most advantageous rates, and advice is given. Cars can be driven to any part of Egypt, by experienced drivers. Guides are provided. Other benefits, it is hoped, will be given in due of course.". Not located in OCLC. "1938-39 Edition" of the series (not published more than two years) is located in OCLC in no. 862336537.
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Phillips, Hubert
Brush Up Your Bridge
Brush Up Your Bridge is not a textbook, but is designed (as its name implies) to fortify, in as agreeable a manner as possible, the technical equipment of those who already play the game. With twenty-five drawings by Ward. 119pp. Soiled covers with small marks on front. Browning and light foxing to endpapers. Quite a few pencilled tick marks on game plans. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper.
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Emanuel, W. V.
River Thames
One of the Collins Peacock Colour Books. With eleven plates in colour the book describes the fascinating history of London's River from the Middle Ages to the present day. Dust jacket has tear and creases at top front as well as foxing back and front. Front book cover has browning at lower edge with some white spotting
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Cressy, Edward
Civil Engineering To-day
[1937] With 23 plates and many diagrams in the text. 158 pages. A little curling to covers. Light wear to cover extremities.
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Bryan Berryman
Scarborough As It Was
Short booklet on the history of Scarborough, with eight pages of text followed by pages of illustrations. Not paginated.
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