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In remembrance of a terrible flood View picture(s) 1 BEIJER, Johan Coenraad. Gedenkboek van Neerlands Watersnood in Februarij 1825. 's-Grav., J. Immerzeel Jr., 1826. 2 vols. Large 8vo. Contemp. pink marbled boards, with paper title-label on spines. With engraved illustration on title by P. Velijn after J.G. Schotel, folding table, large folding engraved map, with the areas of the floods coloured by hand in blue, the borders in red, and 4 folding lithographed views of the floods by Burggraaf after F.A. Boëns. XXII, VIII, 806 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Engineering  Netherlands  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First issue of the first edition of this important comprehensive manual of civil and military engineering View picture(s) 2 BELIDOR, Bernard Forest de. La science des ingenieurs dans la conduite des travaux de fortification et d'architecture civile. Dedié au Roy. Paris, Claude Jombert, 1729. 6 parts in one vol. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red title-label lettered in gold, marbled emdpapers, red painted edges. With engraved frontispiece by Rigault, and 53 engraved numbered plates, 51 of which are double-page and 2 full-page; plates 16-19 showing military gates are after the drawings by Comte Thomassin. One engraved head-piece by Filloeul and woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. (16), 80, 64, 96, 104, 80, 80, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Architecture  Engineering  Fortification  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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By the designer of the first railroad in the Netherlands View picture(s) 3 BRADE, Willem Christiaan. Theoretisch en practisch bouwkundig handboek, ten dienste van ingenieurs, architecten, opzigters, timmerlieden, metselaars en verdere bouwkundigen. The Hague, A.J. & J.A. Van Weelden, 1827-34. 4 vols. 4to. Uniformly bound in contemporary half calf, modern marbled boards. Vol 1: Table in text, 24 numbered tables at the end; vol. 2: 18 folding engraved plates by J.C. Zurcher and Verbeke of foundations, brick- and stonework and wood constructions, 2 tables in text; vol. 3: 17 double-page engraved plates by J.C. Zurcher and Verbeke of the classical orders, and designs of various buildings (theatres, manor houses, town halls, etc.; vol. 4:  Engraved frontispiece (90 x 125 mm) of the opening of the first English railroad, 2 folding engraved plates of (1) details of railroads and wheels and (2) one of the first locomotives, and 5 tables in text. XII, 178, (24); (4), IV, 192; (6), II, 71, (3); VIII, 166 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Architecture  Dutch  Engineering  Manuals  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first illustration of steam power View picture(s) 4 BRANCA, Giovanni. Le machine. Rome, Jacomo Mascardi, for Jacomo Manuci, 1629. 4to. Contemporary limp vellum. With architectural title-page within engraved allegorical borders and 77 numbered woodcut plates. [3], 40, 14, 23 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Earth Sciences [General]  Engineering  Mechanics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Interesting illustrated work on the construction of banks, roads, canals and railways View picture(s) 5 BRUÈRE, René. Traité de consolidation des talus, routes, canaux et chemins de fer. Contenant des explications fort étendues  sur les causes des éboulements, la description des  procédés de consolidation, le prix de revient obtenu  pour 296,000 mètres carrés de talus, et une analyse  des systèmes les plus connus avec un examen des principes.  Précédé d'une préface de A. Perdonnet. Paris & Liège, A. Hennuyer for the Librairie Polytechnique, J. Baudry, 1873. 2 vols.: text-vol. 8vo and atlas-vol. large 8vo. Contemporary half green morocco, spines gilt, marbled endpapers. With numerous illustrations on 25 double-page steel-engraved numbered plates (ca. 20 x 24cm.) by L. Guiguet in atlas-vol. Text vol.: XI, 311 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Engineering  French  Railways  Technics  Technology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A demonstration of Dutch water management skills View picture(s) 6 CONRAD, Frederik Willem, Arie Jansz. BLANKEN & Simon KROS. Rapport wegens het Onderzoek omtrent eene Uitwatering te Catwijk aan Zee, gedaan in 1802. op Last van Dykrichter en Hoogheemraaden van Rhynland. Haarlem, F. Bohn, 1803. Folio. Orig. boards, with ms. title-label on front cover. With 2 large folding maps, and illustrations and plans on 16 large folding engraved plates by D. Veelwaard. (2), 27, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Engineering  Netherlands  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to prevent seepage and sags of dikes View picture(s) 7 CONRAD, Frederik Willem. Verhandeling ter beantwoording der vrage: "welke zijn de beste en meest geschikte middelen, om, wanneer zich verzakkingen en gevaarlijke doorkwellingen aan de dijken onzer hoofdrivieren vertoonen, derzelver voortgang te stuiten, en derzelver gevolgen voor te komen?". (No place, printer or year, = Haarlem, widow A. Loosjes, 1828). 8vo. Contemporary boards covered with blue paper. With 4 folding plates lithographed by M.A. Abrahams in The Hague. 64 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Dutch  Engineering  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Ocean waves, flooding & hydraulic engineering, well-illustrated View picture(s) 8 EMY, Amand Rose. Ueber die Bewegung der Wellen und über den Bau am Meere und im Meere. ... Aus dem Französischen übersetzt von C. Wiesenfeld, ... Mit 10 Kupfertafeln [sic]. Vienna, Ludwig Förster's artistischer Anstalt (on reverse of title-page: printed by J.P. Sollinger), 1839. 8vo. 19-century blue cloth, red spine label. With 10 folding lithographic plates (23 x 39 to 54 cm) with 75 figures showing diagrams of wave forms and motions, and plans and cross-sections of coasts, man-made barriers, buildings, hydraulic devices, etc. Set in fraktur types. [2], XIV, 242, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Engineering  Hydraulics  Physics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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After the flood View picture(s) 9 HERING, Johannes Hermanus. Bespiegeling over Neêrlandsch Waternood, tusschen den 14den en 15den Nov. 1775. Amst., Wed. Loveringh Allart, 1776. 2 vols. Orig. half calf. With engraved view on 2 titles by S. Fokke after J. Buys, engraved portrait of the author by Th. Koning, folding table, folding engraved map, 2 folding engraved plans of the dykes, and 7 folding engraved views of the floods by S. Fokke and N. van der Meer after H. Kobell, including 2 by the publishers after N. van der Meer. XVI, 38, 245, (3); VIII, 335, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Engineering  Netherlands  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Proof of Dutch expertise in hydraulic engineering View picture(s) 10 HORST, Tileman van der & Jacob POLLEY. Theatrum Machinarum Universale; of Keurige Verzameling  van verscheide grote en zeer fraaie Waterwerken, Schutsluizen, Waterkeringen, Ophaal- en Draaibruggen. Met hare Gronden, Opstallen en Doorgesnedens. Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk, 1736-1774. 2 parts in 1 vol. Large folio & 8vo. Contemp. half calf & Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with red title-label, and with gilt armorial superlibros of Comte de Calenberg on both sides, blind tooled dentelles, marbled edges. With 2 titles printed in red and black, engraved allegorical vignette by J. Wandelaar on 2 titles, 2 engraved plates with dedication, incl. large coats-of-arms of Beemsterland and the members of the Hoogheemraadschap of Beemsterland, and numerous plans and perspectival designs of hydraulic engineering, showing details of locks, sluices, dams, lift, draw and turning bridges, etc., incl. some fine views of fully finished works, on 25 double-page engraved plates by Petrus Schenk, 4 folding, in the first part, and numerous plans and views of similar hydraulic works, incl. the preparing of the land, a culvert, locks, lock-doors, etc., and also all sorts of technical devices like pumps, mills and other hydraulic machinery for use of working under water for locks and bridges on 24 double-page engraved plates by Petrus Schenk, 3 folding, in the second part, and with illustrations of a lock and of an icebreaker on 6 extra added double-page engraved plates. (4), 14; (4), 9, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Engineering  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the influences of the stars, comets, perpetuel motion machine, and new inventions View picture(s) 11 LE ROYER, Jacques. (Oeuvres). Le bastion universel - L'art des arts et des sciences ou des nouvelles inventions - Le moevement perpetuel hydraulique - La véritable cause des cometes - Traité des influences divisé en deux parties. Premiere partie des influences des cieux, & des astres. ... Deuxie'me partie des influences, & vertus occultes des estres terrestres. Avranches, Nicolas Motays, 1677. 8vo. Contemporary full brown mottled calf, sprinkled edges. With woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials and many woodcut borders, 5 half page and 10 smaller woodcut diagrams in the text, depicting arrangements for chemical experiments, diagrams, astrological symbols, spheres, etc. (6), 3-112, 109- 364 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Chemistry  Engineering  Physics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Energy-saving in the 18th century View picture(s) 12 LEHMANN, Johann Christian. Allgemeine Oeconomische Holzspahrkunst ... darinnen bey 70 Arten verbesserter Oefen beschrieben .... mehr als die Hälfte Holz erspahret werden könne ... Neue Auflage. Leipzig, Grotzische Handlung, 1754. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary half calf, red gilt title label on spine. With 10 folding engraved plates with stoves, ovens and chimneys. [4], 162; 128, [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Economy  Engineering  Industry  Technics  Technology  Trade  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Lively picture of seventeenth century mining View picture(s) 13 LÖHNEYSZ, Georg Engelhardt. Bericht vom Bergwerck, wie man dieselben bawen und in guten Wolstande bringen sol, sampt allen dazu gehörigen Arbeiten, Ardnung und rechtlichen Processen. N. p., (1660). Folio. Contemporary calf, spine elegantly decorated in blind in compartments, sprinkled edges. Engraved title with people at work in a mine with two angels holding a cloth with the title engraved by H. von Hensbergen and 16 double page engravings by Jochim Wichman. (20), 343=(355), 1 blank, Full description >> Related Subjects: Earth Sciences [General]  Engineering  Industry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the deepening and silting up of rivers and harbours View picture(s) 14 NUIS, Hendrik Jaspar. Redenen en middelen van verdieping en verzanding der rivieren en havens, op een meetkundige maniere betoogt en aangewezen. Zwolle, Gerard Tydeman, 1686. 4to. Contemporary half vellum, boards covered with marbled paper. With illustrations and figures of river courses and profiles on full-page engraved plate, pasted to a fly-leaf at the end. (4), 38, (2, last blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Engineering  Science  Zwolle  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very rare treatise on the invention of a new kind of waterwheel View picture(s) 15 PEREBOOM, Cornelis. Het leggend waterrad. Met plaaten. Monnickendam, Age Volkerse, for the author, 1808. 4to. Contemporary marbled wrappers. With 3 full-page numbered engraved plates. 14, (2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Engineering  Hydraulics  Mills  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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New designs for locks and a dredging machine, beautifully illustrated. Dedication copy for the founder of the Dutch watermanagement department C. Brunings View picture(s) 16 REDELYKHEID, Cornelis. De Nieuw Uitgevonden Sluis met in- en uitschuivende Deuren, uitgevonden, beschreven en in 't ligt gebragt tot Nut en Dienst van 't Algemeen, en ter Bevordering van Konsten en Weetenschappen.- IDEM. De Nieuw Uitgevonden Diep-Machine, uitgevonden, beschreven en in 't ligt gebragt tot Nut en Dienst van 't Algemeen, en ter Bevordering van Konsten en Weetenschappen. The Hague, Amsterdam, for the author, Hendrik Christ. Gutteling, Yntema & Tieboel, 1774. 2 works in one. Folio. Contemporary half calf, spine ribbed with title lettered in gold. With numerous illustrations on the construction of a lift-lock on 6 folding engraved plates after drawings  by the author engraved by F. or C. de Bakker in the first  work, and on the construction of a dredging-machine on 3 folding engraved plates after drawings  by the author engraved by C.J. de Huyser in the second work. XII, 26; XI, (1), 18 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Engineering  Hydraulics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two rare works on hydraulic engineering View picture(s) 17 REDELYKHEID, Cornelis. La nouvelle ecluse à coulisses.- La nouvelle machine à creuser, les ports et les rivieres. Traduit du Hollandois. La Haye, Amsterdam, for the author, H.C. Gutteling, Yntema et Tieboel, 1774. 2 works in one. Large folio. Modern half vellum, with brown sprinkled boards. With numerous illustrations on the construction of a lift-lock on 6 folding engraved plates in the first work, and on the construction of a dredging-machine  on 3 folding engraved plates in the second work. XII, 18; VIII, 16 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Engineering  Science  Transport  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Designing fortifications View picture(s) 18 SCALA, Giovanni. Delle fortificationi. Nuovamente ristampate con agiunta d'diverse piante e fortezze. Roma, Gioseppe de Rossi, 1627. Folio. Contemporary limp vellum. With engraved title within richly designed military emblematic borders with coat of arms at the top and a plan of fortification at the bottom, 100 elaborately designed and engraved plans and perspectival drawings of detailed parts of fortifications on 50 numbered plates, 10 engraved plans and perspectival designs of full fortifications on 5 plates, 2 engraved illustrations of a canon on 1 plate, and 5 double-page engraved plates with perspectival designs and full plans of fortifications, including a beautiful bird's eye view of the heavily fortified harbour of La Rochelle. (70) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Engineering  Engravings  Fortification  Militaria  Perspective  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Medieval war machinery, with 97 woodcuts View picture(s) 19 VALTURIUS, Robertius. De re militari libris XII multò emaculatius, ac picturis, quae plurimae in eo sunt, elegantioribus expressum, quàm cum Veronae inter initia artis chalcographicae anno Mcccclxxxiii invulgaretur. Paris, Chr. Wechel, 1532, Folio. Contemporary limp overlapping vellum, spine with four ropes and manuscript title, folded vellum manuscript leaf with text and glosses used as endpapers. With woodcut printer's device on title and verso last blank, 97 woodcuts of military engines and constructions, many full-page, and numerous woodcut ornamental initials throughout the text. [12], 383, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Engineering  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most authoritative standard work on Dutch ship building View picture(s) 20 WITSEN, Nicolaas. Aeloude en hedendaegsche scheeps-bouw en bestier: waer in wijtloopigh wert verhandelt, de wijze van scheeps-timmeren, by Grieken en Romeynen: scheeps-oeffeningen, strijden, tucht, straffe, wetten en gewoonten. Beneffens evenmatige grootheden van schepen onses tijts, ontleet in alle hare deelen: verschil van bouwen tusschen uitheemschen en onzen landaert: Indisch vaertuygh: galey-bouw: hedendaegsche scheeps-plichten: verrijckt  met een reex verklaerde zee-mans spreek-woorden en benamingen. Amsterdam, C. Commelijn, Broer & Jan Appelaer, 1671. Folio. Contemporary full red morocco, richly gilt and decorated spine, double and triple gilt fillets and gilt cornerpieces on sides, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With an engraved frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe, title in red and black, 114 mostly full-page engraved plates by 'P.L.' after the drawings by Witsen: I-CIX, of which one double-page and A-E, two of which are smaller. [14], 516 [= 510], 40, [5, 1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Engineering  Maritime History  Militaria  Ships & Shipbuilding  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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