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.
New York: for the Author by Alexander Niven, 1811. 8vo (229 x 146 mm). 18 engraved plates by Rollinson and Leney after the author. Contemporary orange boards rebacked in tan calf, spine lettered in gilt. Condition: Foxed, short closed tear to one plate; rebacked, extremities worn. Provenance: Spenser Thomas (early ink signature to title); Jonathan Simmons (19th century signature to front blank in pencil). first edition . An important work, proposing a cantilever bridge across the Hudson River. It is only the second American work on bridge building. Sabin 64123; Shaw & Shoemaker 23721; Rink 23721.
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.
New York: for the Author by Alexander Niven, 1811. 8vo (229 x 146 mm). 18 engraved plates by Rollinson and Leney after the author. Contemporary orange boards rebacked in tan calf, spine lettered in gilt. Condition: Foxed, short closed tear to one plate; rebacked, extremities worn. Provenance: Spenser Thomas (early ink signature to title); Jonathan Simmons (19th century signature to front blank in pencil). first edition . An important work, proposing a cantilever bridge across the Hudson River. It is only the second American work on bridge building. Sabin 64123; Shaw & Shoemaker 23721; Rink 23721.
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