Engineers

Albert Dock, Liverpool:: National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside, Merseyside Maritime Museum, 1998., 1998. 8vo. 118 pp. Illus., index. Pink printed wrappers. Burndy bookplate. Very good. CONTENTS: John Rogers? John Reynolds? John Smeaton? Who was Britain's first civil engineer? / Michael Chrimes & Susan Hots -- Reconstructing a lost engineer: Fleeming Jenkin and problems of Sources I -- biographical sources / Gillian Cookson -- Reconstructing a lost engineer : Fleeming Jenkin and problems of Sources... Read more about this item

Sydney: Australian Military History Publications. 2008. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Mint condition in pictorial laminated boards. Issued without dustjacket. A new copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings/Diagrams. 228 pages. John Grover transferred from a militia Engineer unit to the AIF when war broke out in 1939. He subsequently served with the 2/1 Field Company in the Middle East. He served in Papua building an alternate track to the Kokoda Trail and built roads... Read more about this item

Barton, ACT: The Institute of Engineers, Australia. 1988. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket - now protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. x, 311 pages. A selection of people and events chosen to show the exciting role engineers have had in Australia's social and economic development. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Allen Lane. 2013. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 436 pages. The focus of this book os not the commanders, nor the men, but rather on those "in the middle" who worked out how to achieve the objectives - for example Major-General Percy Hobart who invented the... Read more about this item

Canberra: Royal Australian Engineers Corps Committee. 1977. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Endpaper maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 203 pages. The first volume of the history of the RAE . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1945. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. DJ is age-toned with some loss to spine ends. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 252 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Seacliff Park, SA: Magpie Publishing. 2020. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Stiff card covers. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Signed by the author. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 245 pages. After launching rockets into outer space from Woomera in the 1960s found himself deep underground at Broken Hill testing lubricants in rock-drills. Following this he worked from Swedish, French, and Australian companies and with... Read more about this item