Beschreibung:

Scotland - Hydraulic Engineering, Glasgow Water Works, a Victorian sammelband of four monographs &/or tracts: Gale (James M.), The Glasgow Water Works: Papers Read During the Session 1863-64 [...], Glasgow: Printed by Bell & Bain, 1864, 56pp, additional lithograph title-page, 1 fold-out map and 3 fold-out charts; Glasgow Loch Katrine Waterworks, Banquet to Mr. Bateman [...], Westminster: Vacher & Sons, 1860, 47pp; a further sequence of six connected papers from a periodical, lacking title-page and a contents, paginated from [121]-266 and illustrated with 52 full-page engineering plates; Gale (Mr. James, C.E.), On the Port-Glasgow Water Works [...], Glasgow: William Munro, 1868, 8pp and 4 fold-out plates, contemporary half-morocco over moiré boards, red-stained edges, 8vo, (1); Sinclair (Catherine), Sketches and Stories of Scotland and the Scotch, With Corrections and Additions, London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., [n.d. 1868], contemporary three-quarter calf, marbled edges, 12mo, (1); Beeton's Dictionary of Useful Information [...], two-volume set, London: S.O. Beeton, [1859], volume I with fold-out chromolithograph chart, further b/w fold-out charts and plates, in-text illustrations, contemporary green quarter-calf, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, (2); The National Encyclopædia [...], volume I only, London: [n.d.], 8vo, (1), [5]