“A very valuable contribution to the standard literature of civil engineering. In addition to elevations, plans, and sections, large scale details are given, which very much enhance the instructive worth of those illustrations.”—Civil Engineer and Architect’s Journal.
“Mr. Humber’s stately volumes, lately issued—in which the most important bridges erected during the last five years, under the direction of the late Mr. Brunel, Sir W. Cubitt, Mr. Hawkshaw, Mr. Page, Mr. Fowler, Mr. Hemans, and others among our most eminent engineers, are drawn and specified in great detail.”—Engineer.
ESSAY ON OBLIQUE BRIDGES
(Practical and Theoretical). With 13 large Plates. By the late George Watson Buck, M.I.C.E. Fourth Edition, revised by his Son, J. H. Watson Buck, M.I.C.E.; and with the addition of Description to Diagrams for Facilitating the Construction of Oblique Bridges, by W. H. Barlow, M.I.C.E. Royal 8vo, cloth
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“The standard text-book for all engineers regarding skew arches is Mr. Buck’s treatise, and it would be impossible to consult a better.”—Engineer.
“Mr. Buck’s treatise is recognised as a standard text-book, and his treatment has divested the subject of many of the intricacies supposed to belong to it. As a guide to the engineer and architect, on a confessedly difficult subject, Mr. Buck’s work is unsurpassed.”—Building News.
THE CONSTRUCTION OF OBLIQUE ARCHES
(A Practical Treatise on). By John Hart. Third Edition, with Plates. Imperial 8vo, cloth
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