engineering wonders world volume set (2 resultados)

Cloth. Condición: Good+. No Jacket. In Green Imitation Leather Cloth Covers with Gilt Lines, Titles & Vol. Nos to spines. Volume 1 "With 520 Illustrations, Maps & Diagrams." Colour Frontispiece Illustration "The Building of the Pyramids". 6 other full page Colour Plates. Articles include Ancient Engineering, Canadian Pacific Railway & Warships 456 Pages; Volume 2 "With 640 Illustrations, Maps & Diagrams." Frontispiece Illustration "Building a Skyscraper". 6 other full page Colour Plates. Articles include "Steam Locomotives of today", The Uganda Railway & Early Atlantic Cables. 448 Pages. Volume 3 "with 424 Illustrations, Maps & Diagrams. Frontispiece ofhas a colour Illustration "the First Cross Channel Flight". 5 other colour Plates. Articles include Aeronautical Engines, Great British Dams and ,Aqueducts & Building the Statue of Liberty. 407 Pages. 10 3/4" Tall. Book 1 has 2 tears to cloth at top & bottom corners of spine .(see photo) Nice original Inscriptions on endpapers from an engineer to his wife, Dated 1910. Set weighs 4.7 Kilos so Shipping outside UK will be extra. Please ask if you would like any more, pictures, information or a Shipping Quote. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. HB. Circa 1900 (see chapter on "Flying Machines of Today"). Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Vols.1,2 &3, 456, 448 & 408 pages, respectively. Vol.3 has an index. Tanning to f&B feps. Colour plates and frontis. each with blank obverse.,numerous b&w illus. Books tight and internally clean. For exteriors see pics. which show the worst discoloured areas but entirely dry and odourless. These are heavy books and will require extra P&P.