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Old Westminster Bridge: The Bridge of Fools
by Walker, R. J. B
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good ++/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0715378376
- ISBN 13
- 9780715378373
- Seller
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Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
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About This Item
Newton Abbott, Devon, UK: David & Charles, 1979. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 319 pages, plus black-and-white illustrations; elegant book in forest green cloth covers with very bright and clear gilt spine lettering, very gently used, tight in binding, hardly a trace of shelf wear other than gentle bumps to spine ends, very clean and unmarked throughout; DJ also gently bumped at spine ends, one very tiny tear to back spine hinge top. For something completely different, see also our listings for A. R. B. Haldane's New Ways Through the Glens: Highland Road, Bridge and Canal Makers of the Early 19th Century, and for Angia Sassi Perino's Bridges, or this, just in, M. Smolira's classic (and my favourite bedtime reading) Analysis of Structures: The Analysis of Statically-Indeterminate Structures by the Deformation Method. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Eric James
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 043976
- Title
- Old Westminster Bridge: The Bridge of Fools
- Author
- Walker, R. J. B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good ++
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0715378376
- ISBN 13
- 9780715378373
- Publisher
- David & Charles
- Place of Publication
- Newton Abbott, Devon, UK
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- SURVEY England Uk United Kingdom English BRITISH EMPIRE HISTORICAL TRAVEL SCIENCE DISCOVERY HISTORY NONFICTION EXPLORATION REFERENCE MAPS CARTOGRAPHY ARCHITECTURE CITY GROWTH SOCIAL URBAN PLANNING ENGINEERING RIVER CROSSINGS DESIGN ENGINEERING
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Architecture/Engineering;
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