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JOHN SMEATON
Written by A.W. Skempton.
Stock no. 1827610
Published by Thomas Telford. 1st 1981. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Biography of the famous engineer who was involved with everything from mills, bridges and fen drainage to the Eddystone Lighthouse. B/w illustrations. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 07277088X. Top edge of text block browned with some foxing. Else a clean copy. Dustwrapper is lightly browned, title is faded to green on spine.

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THE SEVERN BRIDGE SOUVENIR HANDBOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 1326901
Published by Manderley Press. 1966. Very good condition.

B/w card wraps. B/w photos of the first Severn bridge and its construction. Spine faded. Covers slightly marked. Contents clean.

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN SEVERN BRIDGE
Written by Samuel Baldwyn Rogers.
Stock no. 1325708
Published by Merlin Bookshop. Circa 1974. Nearly fine condition.

Facsmile of the 1845 'Memoranda Relative to a Magnificent Toll-Free Stone Bridge Across the River Severn...Between the New Passage in Gloucestershire and the Black-Rock in Monmouthshire. Small card wrap booklet. 8 pages. ISBN: 0904376001. Staples rusty. Some very slightly fading to spine and cover edges.

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CENTENARY CELEBRATION OF NEWPORT TRANSPORTER BRIDGE 1906-2006
Written by Terry Underwood.
Stock no. 2140755
Published by Rompdown Ltd. 1st 2006. Very good condition.

Large format. Pictorial glazed boards. Colour & b/w photos. ISBN: 0955164117. Small chip to spine. Light page edge browning. Contents are still excellent.

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YOUR BOOK OF BRIDGES
Written by Eric De Mare. Illustrated by Gordon Cullen.
Stock no. 1823883
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1963. Very good condition.

The Your Book Series. Dark orange boards, yellow title to spine and vignette to front. B/w photos and drawings. Written for children. Spine slightly faded. Boards lightly bowed. Corners lightly rubbed. A couple of small foxspots to endpapers, text block browned. Else contents clean.

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PACKMEN, CARRIERS AND PACKHORSE ROADS: TRADE AND COMMUNICATIONS IN NORTH DERBYSHIRE AND SOUTH YORKSHIRE
Written by David Hey.
Stock no. 1823388
Published by Leicester University Press. 1st 1980. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A network of routes travelled by packmen, carriers and packhorse teams carried much of Britain's trade before the era of the turnpike road. In many parts of the country, a wealth of visual evidence survives - holloways, causeys, guide stoops and packhorse bridges. This book studies the system of routes, taking as an example the wild and difficult terrain of Derbyshire and South Yorkshire. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and maps. ISBN: 0718511921. Board corners lightly bumped. Minor mark to lower edge of text block. Contents otherwise fine. White pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased at top of spine and lightly scuffed.

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BRIDGES FOR MODELLERS: AN ILLUSTRATED RECORD OF RAILWAY BRIDGES
Written by L.V. Wood.
Stock no. 2136550
Published by Oxford Publishing Co. 1st thus 2013. Very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. B/w photos and diagrams. ISBN: 9780860936541. Some corner creasing.

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CIVIL ENGINEERING HERITAGE: WALES
Written by Keith Thomas.
Stock no. 1823133
Published by Phillimore. 2015. Nearly fine condition.

Part of a regional series on civil engineering heritage that examines the contribution of the civil engineer to society over the last 300 years, including transport networks, architecture and landscape design. Green pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos throughout. ISBN: 9781860776380. Light crease to lower corner of front cover else contents clean.

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN SEVERN BRIDGE
Written by Samuel Baldwyn Rogers.
Stock no. 2114591
Published by Merlin Bookshop. 1974. Slightly better than very good condition.

Facsmile of the 1845 'Memoranda Relative to a Magnificent Toll-Free Stone Bridge Across the River Severn...Between the New Passage in Gloucestershire and the Black-Rock in Monmouthshire. Small card wrap booklet. 8 pages. ISBN: 0904376001. A few marks to covers.

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