The Architect and the Engineer (8 results)

Condition: Very Good. 4 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 22 cms. Category: Institution of Civil Engineers; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 12 pages, 3 folding plates. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 21 x 27 cms. Category: Civil Engineers; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Unframed Print. Condition: Very Good. A single sheet print, image area approx. 18 x 28 cms. With another page containing a floor plan and some accompanying text. A maritime infrastructure project blending engineering clarity with urban functionality. The illustrations found in leading architectural journals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as The Builder, Building News, and The Architect are masterpieces of visual craftsmanship. These illustrations capture the elegance, intricacy, and stylistic flair of the period's architecture. Rich in ornamental detail and atmospheric depth, they reflect not only the buildings themselves but the artistic sensibilities and design discourse of their age. THIS IS AN ORIGINAL PAGE FROM THE JOURNAL, PRINTED AT THE DATE SHOWN IN THE TITLE, NOT A REPRINT OR COPY. Category: Builder & Building News; PRINTS : Buildings & Places; Unframed Prints : Old. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book examines sepulchral architecture's evolution from the prehistoric era to the present day. Beginning with the humble mound of earth and progressing through the grand cathedrals of the Middle Ages to the modern-day mausoleum, the author provides a comprehensive overview of the architectural and cultural significance of these structures. The book explores the various symbolic meanings and cultural contexts associated with tomb design and construction, offering new perspectives on the ways in which societies have honored and remembered their dead. Through its in-depth analysis of a wide range of case studies, this book illuminates the profound impact monumental architecture has had on the way societies have shaped their built environment. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.…

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged, with strip of tape from mount adhering to the blank second leaf of the bifolium. Folded once. The recipient ('Dear Sir') is not named. Signed 'J. Scott. Russell'. Apparently responding to a request for an autograph from an invalid, he begins by stating that he is 'sorry to hear' of the recipient's 'prolonged suffering', but that he is 'glad to learn that you occupy your inforced in [sic] thinking more about others than about yourself'. He ends by expressing pleasure in complying with the recipient's request.…

Uniform matching first edition (1827 and 1829) hard back binding in contemporary half chestnut brown leather, marble paper sides, simple gilt title lettering and volume details to the spines. 4to 11¼'' x 9''. Volume I: frontispiece, illustrated title page, 128 pp., Volume II: vi, 172 pp, complete with 353 plates on 162 leaves depicting views of important buildings in London and the vicinity, most leaves with two plates per leaf, some with 3 or 4, full page plan of Regents Park. One plate with repaired tears, foxing to the margins of the plates, some scattered off-setting, volume II with front hinge loose, rubbing to the board edges and corners. Member of the P.B.F.A. LONDON (Londinium).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Serrão Pimentel, Luís. Methodo Lusitanico de desenhar as fortificaçoens das praças regulares, & irregulares, fortes de campanha, e outras obras pertencentes a architectura militar distribuido em duas partes operativa, e qualificativa. Lisbon, Antonio Craesbeeck de Mello, 1680. Folio. [8] leaves + 666 pages + [5 + 1 blank]leaves. Fine engraved allegorical title adorned with emblems of war and incorporating Portuguese arms in top panel (signed João Baptista) and 36 large folding engraved plates by René Bietry and Manuel Mendes. Ornamental head and tail- pieces and initials. Contemporary calf; backstrip with giltstamped ornaments and title gilt on morocco label; joints and edges rubbed. First edition of the most influential and outstanding Portuguese theoretical work on military engineering of the period. Posthumously published, it became the set 'manual' for Portuguese students of military architecture. Pimentel(1613-79), engineer, cosmographer and lieutenant general of artillery under King João IV, designed the fortifications of Vila Viçosa, Monsaraz, Elvas, Campo Maior and Portalegre and taught military science and navigation. The book includes sections on practical linear trigonometry (pp547-644), and on problems relating to practical and speculative geometry (pp645-666). On the author's career, see the long note in Barbosa Machado, Bibliotheca Lusitana Historica III, 133-35. A very good, unrestored copy in its original state. Paging errors: pp179,181,227,229,315,317,587 & 589 misbound. 5 letterpress tables, sometimes included,were not bound into this copy. Almirante 806; Innocencio V, 322,741 & XVI,70; Martins de Carvalho 267-8; Palau 310803 (misdated '1689'); Palha 476. …

Six of the letters are 4to, 1 p; the other is 12mo, 1 p. All good, on lightly aged paper. All bearing the Society's stamp and most docketed. On a variety of subjects: a proposed paper by 'Herr Frahm', the use by the Institution of the Royal Society's library for a council meeting, the delivery to the Society of a 'model tank that is coming from Germany' ('the reader of the paper is sending his representative over from Germany to superintend matters'), and a 'Proposed Memorial to the late Sir William White' ('with reference to Mr. Bailey Saunders and Mr. C. R. Graves. The latter would, I think, be an excellent selection for the General Committee, and I have no doubt an agreeable one to the numbers').…