1797. First Edition. Hardcover. No Place, no printer. 1797. 4to. Pp. [1], 12. No map. Modern rebind in brown cloth and quarter brown leather spine with gilt titles. Spine sunned and the leather scuffed, clean and bright throughout. "The scheme to build a canal between Edinburgh and Glasgow, which was..... More

Toronto: AE Publications, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. 418pp., with hundreds of illustrations, mostly in colour. This a new catalogue, and the second by Mark Andrews. The machine books included in this new publication are a part of the broader Andrews Collection of Civil Engineering. The literature of early engineering..... More

Toronto: AE Publications, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. This lavishly illustrated book catalogues the development of science and engineering through the early modern period. Some 367 printed books, manuscripts and maps are presented in chronological order to highlight the relationship between the evolution of ideas and the authors who documented those..... More

Toronto: AE Publications, 2024. First Edition. Hardcover. This extensively illustrated book of hydraulic literature is the second in a series addressing the science and engineering of water. This volume covers countries around the globe and builds on the first volume which focused exclusively on Italy. Some 350 entries including printed..... More

Frankfurt am Mayn: in der Behrens- und Kornerischen Buchhandlung, 1798. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Pp. xvi, 136, folding plate at end. Translated from the Dutch by Kroncke, and a preface by Wiebeking. Light foxing throughout. The folding plate in excellent condition. In Nineteenth century paper boards, imitation leather paper spine..... More

London: Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd., 1965. Hardcover. 1965 reprint. 8vo. Pp. 251. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering, light bumping to spine ends, and a bookplate to front endpaper, clean and tight copy in a bright, price clipped dust jacket. More

London: The Gresham Publishing Company, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. Folio. Pp. xx, 201, [1]; xiv, 202. Publisher's original green cloth, lettered in gilt and in black, with attractive art nouveau, Glasgow style design by Talwin Morris. TM monogram to lower right corner of front board. The board corners..... More

1763. First Edition. Softcover. [Milano] 1763. 8vo. Pp. 95. Stiffened paper covers (contemporary?), paper spine labels, hand-lettered.Woodcut initials. Some staining to covers and light foxing but generally clean and very bright, with a short closed tear to foot of front endpaper. A scarce treatise on hydraulic engineering in 18th century..... More

London: Benj. Tooke, 1721. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 131 [1], folding map. Map in excellent condition, early hand-written note to show a breach that "happened 120 years ago." Map clean and bright, with Macclesfield coat of arms blindstamp to the map in a few places, the title-page and the..... More

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1939. Hardcover. Fourth edition, second impression. 8vo. 339pp. Brown cloth boards with title in blind to front cover and in gilt to the spine. Bookplate to paste-down, paper over front hinge split at the top, clean throughout and overall a good clean copy. More