16,585 results
1978ref. 2385504Wesleyan University Press 1978. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item700grams ISBN:0819550213 Wesleyan University Press hardcover
1963Ex-library book with usual (minimal) marks and stamps, to title page only. Clean pages in a very tight copy with traces of foxing to feps and to slightly dusty page edges, bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Ffep missing and mark to top of page edges. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with small nick to top of spine. 224pp. According to one definition, Civil Engineering is 'the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use, and convenience of man'. The author's intention is to show young men who already have an interest in this branch of engineering and are considering it as a career, the truth of this definition and the wide scope civil engineering offered in 1968. Well illustrated with black & white photographs of contempoarary works.
1808ref. 02619101055Printed for B Crosby and Co London 1808. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Title on front cover is "The Surveyor's Guide or Treatise on Practical Land Surveying; Being a Complete Introduction to that Useful Art". The book has been re-backed using original printed brown boards and with parts of original spine cover pasted onto replacement spine cover edges are scuffed and bumped. Sound binding darkened end-papers previous owner's name in blue on title-page clean slightly darkened uncut untrimmed pages. Illustrated with many wood engravings. No dust jacket as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 02619101055. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. Printed for B Crosby and Co hardcover
1982ref. 0040471982. Hardcover. Good. Publisher: Prentice-Hall Inc. 1982 Good HB ISBN: 0-13-971606-8 hardcover
1958A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 216 pages. 8 1/8" w x 11 1/4" h. A bit musty smelling. Small tears, edge wear, and peeling laminate on price-clipped dust jacket. 265 color photographs and diagrams. Wonderful 1950's ultra-modern graphics in bright colors. "This remarkable book tells the activities of scientists working today in seven major fields: geology, astronomy, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering. It is not a survey of the history and achievements of science, but rather an exciting look-over-the-shoulder at the men, in laboratories and in the field, who are making tomorrow's world."
1901No dust jacket. Hardcover. Leather binding. Boards and spine are a little creased, with several small surface marks and one or two small abrasions. Spine ends are rather worn and frayed. Small tears to each side of spine head. Hardcover leading corners are worn and bent. Former owner's name is penned on front endpaper. Hinges are cracked and binding is a little loose at various points. Contents are clear. AF Used
1931ref. 122860Birmingham. Engineers Office Rookery Park, Erdington. February 1931. 58 pages. With a lot of photos. Original softcover binding. 24x16 cm
1927ref. 2943956Chapman & Hall 1927. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item950grams ISBN: Chapman & Hall hardcover
1922Hardcover with printed boards, no dust jacket. Boards are shelf and edgeworn with bumps to corners and tanning of spine. Illustration from page 128 is missing. Page block and page edges are foxed, endpapers tanned and surface tear to front pastedown. Creases to a couple of page corners. Pages unmarked throughout. AD Used
1917Hardcover with printed boards, no dust jacket. Bump to upper leading corner and creases to brown cloth at rear. Gift inscription penned to front pastedown and spine is a little cocked. Hinge break to the same. FEP and REP faintly marked and page block is a little grubby. Pages are clean throughout. AD Used
1914Hardcover with printed boards, no dust jacket. Boards are edgeworn and lightly marked at covers. Spine ends are scuffed and leading corners are bumped. Page block is foxed as are end papers and some pages internally. Clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
1911Hardcover with printed boards, no dust jacket. Slight lean to spine, boards faintly marked front and rear, light wear to edges. Faint marks to endpapers, foxing to page block and page edges. Mark to page 19. All other pages clean. AD Used
1920256 pages. Undated. Circa early 1900s. Over three hundred illustrations, many of which recall amazing feats of engineering which have long since been dismantled. Colour plates. Handsome colour-illustrated front board depicts an amazing bridge construction scene. Above-average wear. Various defects. A worthy reading copy of this most engaging vintage engineering reference. Sure to interest anyone with an interest in engineering history. Offered as is. Book
1920ref. 133c8684London: Ward Lock & Co. Limited 1920. Book. Fair. Hardcover. Second Edition - Revised. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 256 pages. Undated. Circa early 1900s. Over three hundred illustrations many of which recall amazing feats of engineering which have long since been dismantled. Colour plates. Handsome colour-illustrated front board depicts an amazing bridge construction scene. Above-average wear. Various defects. A worthy reading copy of this most engaging vintage engineering reference. Sure to interest anyone with an interest in engineering history. Offered as is. Ward Lock & Co. Limited Hardcover
19738vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1913ref. ZB626184Madison: University of Wisconsin. School of Engineering. 1913-1918. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday Oct. 26 weekend SALE item volumes 18-22 complete volumes illustrated bound ex library good-very good. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Madison: University of Wisconsin. School of Engineering. unknown
1998ref. 44487North-Holland. VG/NONE. 1998. Hardcover. Proceedings of Williamsburg Virginia October 25-31 1997 meetings. Hardback with very clean bright covers and contents. No DJ. Special issue of Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids Volume 239. Previous owner's name and date in ink on front pastedown. NOT library discard. ; . North-Holland, hardcover
1999ref. 9648006Liverpool University Press 1999. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item750grams ISBN:9780853239215 Liverpool University Press paperback
1986ref. 5837404John Wiley & Sons 1986. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item2150grams ISBN:0471809403 John Wiley & Sons hardcover
1998ref. 5582639John Wiley and Sons 1998. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1250grams ISBN:9780471168270 John Wiley and Sons hardcover
1998ref. 2091502135307329TBS 1998. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 TBS paperback
1890ref. 22996San Francisco: G. W. Gordon. Very Good. 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers damp damaged at the top of the spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 170 pages . G. W. Gordon hardcover
1995ref. 2352670New York: Tess Press / Black Dog & Leventhal 1995. First Thus. Large Softcover. Near Fine. 14x9x0. First thus. Minimal wear to corners. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1995 Large Softcover. 142 pp. Strategic and historical color battle maps with explanations and tactical contexts. Originally published as part of the second volume of the 1959 two-volume set The West Point Atlas of American Wars. Tess Press / Black Dog & Leventhal paperback books
1962ref. 50112New York Frederick A. Praeger 1962. Hardcover. Extemities rubbed with top corner of front cover frayed; otherwise very good condition in tape-repaired edge-worn dust jacket. . Unnumbered pages. 154 maps. Large oblong. New York, Frederick A. Praeger, [ hardcover
1972ref. Alibris.0012837New York: Praeger 1972. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Light sunning to spine. Previous owners name. Slipcase with split to seam on left lower edge. 2 v. col. maps 27 x 37 cm. Includes bibliographies. Contents: v. 1. 1689-1900. --v. 2. 1900-1953. Praeger hardcover