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The architect, engineer, and operative builder's constructive manual, ; being a practical and scientific treatise on the construction of artificial foundations for buildings, railways, &c. With a comparative view of the application of piling and concreting to such purpose : also an investigation of the nature and properties of the materials employed in securing the stability of buildings, the whole illustrated by examples selected from the most important architectural and engineering works of this country. : To which is added, an analysis of the principal legal enactments affecting the operations of the practical builder. Illustrated by notes of cases occurring in actual practice. With thirteen plates, and numerous figures. / By Christopher Davy, arch. and C.E.
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia 1841 Davy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davy, Christopher.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foundations.
- Structural engineering.
- Construction--Handbooks, manuals etc.
- Construction.
- Civil engineering.
- Railroads.
- Genre:
- Publishers' catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- [4], lxvi, [2], 179, [3] p., [13] leaves of plates ill., plans ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- A new edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London: : M. Taylor, 1, Wellington Street, Strand, (nephew and successor to the late J. Taylor)., MDCCCXLI. [1841]
- Notes:
- "Drury, 17, Bridgewater Square, Barbican"--t.p. verso.
- "Drury, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane."--p. 179.
- No more published?
- Includes frontispiece, 11 numbered and 1 unnumbered plates. Some plates signed Drury sc. after H. Stone.
- Local Notes:
- Title is held at Carpenters' Hall in the Library of the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia. Access to the books is restricted and available to researchers only by permission requested in advance.
- Carpenters' Company copy has [16] p. publisher's catalog bound at end; accession number 3506; first recorded in 1857 Carpenters' Company Library inventory as no. 138 and in the 1857 Carpenters' Company Library Catalogue as no. 1195.
- OCLC:
- 232156460
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