NOTES ON DOCKS AND DOCK CONSTRUCTION
Written by C. Colson
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.
in 1894
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NOTES ON DOCKS AND DOCK CONSTRUCTION
Written by C. Colson.
Stock no. 564476
1st.
1894.
Hardback.
Good condition.
Longman's Civil Engineering Series. Black cloth, gilt title to spine. 426 pages + 16 page booklist. B/w illustrations including some folding. Foxing to prelims. Name, address and date in ink to half-title. Top of spine chipped with loss. Covers scuffed. Front and rear hinges cracked. Very small pin hole to front cover also affects first 30 pages. Top 1/4" of cloth to top of spine missing.
Front cover
Contents
- Early notes
- Commencement of works, or opening up
- Dams
- Water in foundations
- Dock and Quay walls
- Dry or graving docks
- Closing entrances
- Deposits
- Floating docks
- Slipways
- Pumping water from docks
- Dredging
- Destruction of timber
- Cost of works
- Miscellaneous Notes
- Appendices
- Index