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A treatise on bridge architecture : in which the superior advantages of the flying pendent lever bridge are fully proved ; with an historical account and description of different bridges erected in various parts of the world, from an early period, down to the present time / by Thomas Pope ...
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1811 Pope
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pope, Thomas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bridges.
- Cantilever bridges--Design and construction.
- Cantilever bridges.
- Genre:
- Subscription lists (Publishing) -- New York (State) -- 19th century.
- Physical Description:
- [18], [ix]-xxxii, 33-288 p. : plates ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New-York : printed for the author by Alexander Niven, 1811.
- Notes:
- "Subscribers, in New-York, to T. Pope's Treatise on bridge architecture."--Preliminary pages [9]-[16].
- "Conclusion"--Pages [281]-288; in verse, 1st line "Let the broad arc the spacious Hudson stride."
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy damaged: plate between pages 138-139 has been torn out.
- Athenaeum copy: Breck bequest; rebound.
- Cited in:
- Hitchcock 946
- Sabin 64123
- Shaw/Shoemaker 23721
- OCLC:
- 989900
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