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The Civil Engineer’s Library

100 Vintage Books

A curated PDF reference collection on a physical USB drive

Explore a carefully organised historical library devoted to civil engineering, construction & surveying. ZipMyBook is a UK-based seller. This is a tangible product: one USB drive will be posted to you; it is not an email or download link.

Contents100 historical books in PDF format
DeliveryPhysical USB posted from the United Kingdom
OrganisationClearly named folders plus a title index
CompatibilityWindows, macOS and Linux computers with a USB port and PDF reader

Subjects inside the collection

  • Civil Engineering
  • Construction & Surveying
  • Research and illustrated sources

A selection of included titles

  • Water-supply engineering; the designing, construction, and maintenance of water-supply systems, both city and irrigation — Folwell, Amory Prescott, 1865-
  • Water-supply engineering; the designing, construction, and maintenance of water-supply systems, both city and irrigation — Folwell, Amory Prescott, 1855-
  • The waterproofing of structures, with special reference to sublevel construction, the envelope method and the application of "Tunaloid." — Bird, J. A. & W., & Company
  • Popular Lectures on the Steam Engine: In which Its Construction and ... — Dionysius Lardner
  • Wireless telegraphy and high frequency electricity; a manual containing detailed information for the construction of transformers, wireless telegraph and high frequency apparatus, with chapters on their theory and operation — ['Twining, Harry La Verne, 1863-', 'Dubilier, William']
  • REINFORCED CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION — GEORGE A. HOOL
  • Wills: Construction: Precatory Trust
  • The Construction and Use of Spherical Maps, or Such as are Delineated upon Portions of a Spherical Surface. By Mr. John Colson, M. A. F. R. S. — Colson, John

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Books in this Collection (100 titles)
  • Water-supply engineering; the designing, construction, and maintenance of water-supply systems, both city and irrigation — Folwell, Amory Prescott, 1865-
  • Water-supply engineering; the designing, construction, and maintenance of water-supply systems, both city and irrigation — Folwell, Amory Prescott, 1855-
  • The waterproofing of structures, with special reference to sublevel construction, the envelope method and the application of "Tunaloid." — Bird, J. A. & W., & Company
  • Popular Lectures on the Steam Engine: In which Its Construction and ... — Dionysius Lardner
  • Wireless telegraphy and high frequency electricity; a manual containing detailed information for the construction of transformers, wireless telegraph and high frequency apparatus, with chapters on their theory and operation — ['Twining, Harry La Verne, 1863-', 'Dubilier, William']
  • REINFORCED CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION — GEORGE A. HOOL
  • Wills: Construction: Precatory Trust
  • The Construction and Use of Spherical Maps, or Such as are Delineated upon Portions of a Spherical Surface. By Mr. John Colson, M. A. F. R. S. — Colson, John
  • Florida: Schools. Adequate Toilet Facilities to Be Provided. Construction of Toilets. (Chap. 6836, Act May 13, 1915)
  • The marine steam engine. Its construction, action and management. A manual and book of reference for ... all interested in steam navigation .. — Busley, Carl, 1850-
  • Metropolitan District Commission, Parks Engineering and Construction Division, Plan Accessions — Massachusetts. Metropolitan Park Commission.
  • Ueber die Construction der Pronomina oios und hosos und der Partikel hōste mit dem Infinitiv — Viehoff, Peter, author
  • Douglas Fir Ship: Specifications for the Construction of a Standard Wood ... — United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation , United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation , Ferris, Theodore E ., Theodore E Ferris
  • Elements of composition and rhetoric : with copious exercises in both criticism and construction — Waddy, Virginia, 1850-1911
  • Elements of machine construction and drawing: or, Machine drawing, with some elements of descriptive and rational cinematics — Warren, S. Edward (Samuel Edward), 1831-1909
  • The effects of errors in surveying — Briggs, Henry, 1561-1630
  • The electric furnace; its construction, operation and uses — Stansfield, Alfred, 1871-1944
  • Electricity for Engineers: A Clear and Comprehensive Treatise on the Principles, Construction ... — Charles Desmond
  • An elementary treatise on optics, containing all the requisite propositions carried to first approximations; with the construction of optical instruments, for the use of junior university students — Potter, Richard, 1799-1886
  • Observations on the construction of healthy dwellings: namely, houses, hospitals, barracks, asylums, etc — Galton, Douglas
  • The Organ, its History and Construction a Comprehensive Treatise on the Structure and Capabilities of the Organ with Specifications and Suggestive Details for Instruments of all Sizes, intended as a Handbook for the Organist and the Amateur — ['Hopkins, Edward J.', 'Rimbault, Edward F.']
  • Die neueren und wichtigeren landwirthschaftlichen Maschinen und Geräthe : ihre Theorie, Construction, Wirkungsweise und Anwendung : ein Handbuch der landwirthschaftlichen Maschinen- und Geräthekunde zum Selbststudium und Unterricht — Schneitler, C. F
  • Construction site for a home on Chevy Chase Drive in Flintridge, California — Unknown
  • Consideration. Contract. Construction. Kinsman v. Fisk, 56 N. Y. Supp. 33
  • Final general report on hospital construction and management — ['Allen, Harry Brookes, 1854-1926', 'Victoria']
  • Construction of Roads / റോഡുകളുടെ നിര്‍മ്മാണം — Kerala Legislative Assembly
  • Municipal engineering applicable to conditions existing in Bengal [electronic resource] : six lectures delivered in February and March 1899 at the Civil Engineering College, Sibpur — Silk, A. E
  • Wills. Construction. Deed or Will
  • A text-book of plane surveying — Raymond, William G
  • A text-book on electro-magnetism and the construction of dynamos — Jackson, Dugald C. (Dugald Caleb), 1865-1951
  • An Account of the Preliminary Experiments and Ultimate Construction of a Refracting Telescope of 7.8 Inches Aperture, with a Fluid Concave Lens. [Abstract] — Barlow, Peter
  • An Improvement in the Construction of Godfrey's (Commonly Called Handley's) Quadrant — Ewing, John
  • Le chauffage economique ou examen critique du chauffage qu'on obtient de cheminées à la françoise et des fourneaux à l'allemande; suivi d'une nouvelle construction de foyers à l'usage du pauvre artisan, et de cheminéesfourneaux, économiques, éprouvés, réunissant les avantages des deux chauffages critiqués, ... Avec pl
  • Practical ventilation and warming : with illustrations and examples and suggestions on the construction and heating, etc., of disinfecting rooms and Turkish baths — ['Constantine, Joseph', 'University of Leeds. Library']
  • Dwelling houses [electronic resource] : their sanitary construction and arrangements — ['Corfield, W. H. (William Henry), 1843-1903', 'University of Glasgow. Library']
  • Automobiles; a Practical Treatise on the Construction, Operation, and Care ... — Hugo Diemer
  • Hints for the improvement of trusses; intended to render their use less inconvenient, and to prevent the necessity of an understrap. With the description of a truss of easy construction and slight expence [sic], for the use of labouring poor — Parkinson, James, 1755-1824. n 84102370
  • The art of land surveying — John Quested
  • Insurance: Construction of "Loss Payable" Indorsement: Agency
  • Wills: Construction of "Unmarried"
  • An essay on the construction of wheel-carriages, as they affect both the roads and the horses : with suggestions relating to the principles on which tolls ought to be imposed, and a few remarks on the formation of roads — Fry, Joseph Storrs, 1766-1835
  • The erection of dwelling-houses : with the specification, quantities and estimates and every requisite detail for their construction — Brooks, S. H. (Samuel H.), architect
  • Les édifices hospitaliers : dépuis leur origine jusqu'à nos jours ; De l'assistance publique et des hôpitaux : jusqu'au XIXeme siècle ; Les hôpitaux au XIXe siècle études, projets, discussions et programmes relatifs à leur construction : Description de l'hôpital civil et militaire suburbain de Montpéllier — Tollet, Casimir, 1828-
  • A manual of weave construction : a systematic arrangement and explanation of the foundation and derivative weaves for harness looms — ['Kastanek, Ivo', 'Dale, Samuel S. (Samuel Sherman), b. 1859']
  • Dress and care of the feet : showing their natural perfect shape and construction; their present deformed condition; and how flat-foot, distorted toes, and other defects are to be prevented or corrected : with directions for dressing them elegantly yet comfortably; and hints upon various matters relating to the general subject — Peck, John Lord
  • Harbours and docks : their physical features, history, construction, equipment, and maintenance, with statistics as to their commercial development, by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt — Vernon-Harcourt, Leveson Francis, 1839-1907
  • The Gasoline Automobile : Its Design and Construction Vol. 3, Electrical Equipment with Notes on its Maintenance — P. M. Heldt
  • Heavy Construction — Holbrook, Cabot & Rollins Corporation , Cabot & Rollins Corporation Holbrook
  • The economics of railroad construction — Webb, Walter Loring, 1863-1941
  • The early surveyors and surveying in Illinois — Enos, Zimri A
  • Dwelling Houses: Their Sanitary Construction and Arrangements — William Henry Corfield
  • Dynamo electric machinery; its construction, design, and operation. Direct current machines — ['Sheldon, Samuel, 1862-1920', 'Mason, Hobart']
  • Essais d'anatomie, où l'on explique clairement la construction des organes du corps, & leurs opérarions [sic] mécaniques, selon les nouvelles hypotheses ... — Beddevole, Dominique, -approximately 1692
  • I. Account of the construction of the asylum, and the early proceedings connected therewith : II. Second annual report — Sussex County Lunatic Asylum (Haywards Heath, England)
  • Audels Carpenters And Builders Guide #3; A Practical Illustrated Trade Assistant On Modern Construction — Graham, Frank D. and Thomas J. Emery
  • Self-instruction for young gardeners, foresters, bailiffs, land-stewards, and farmers; in arithmetic and bookkeeping, geometry, mensuration, and practical trigonometry, mechanics, hydrostatics, and hydraulics, land-surveying, levelling, planning, and mapping, architectural drawing, and isometrical projection and perspective: with examples, showing their application to horticultural and agricultural purposes — ['Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843. n 79143079', 'Loudon, Mrs. (Jane), 1807-1858. n 86053731']
  • A compendium of the veterinary art. Containing plain and concise rules for the treatment of all the disorders and accidents to which the horse is liable; with observations on grooming, feeding, exercise, and the construction of stables. Also, a brief description of the structure, economy, and diseases of the horse's foot, with the principles and practice of shoeing — White, James, -1825
  • A few illustrations from the many inexpensive hospitals erected by our firm in iron and weatherboard for permanent purposes : on "Speirs" patented system of construction — Speirs & Co
  • Kalamazoo, Mich.: Tenement and Dwelling Houses. Construction and Sanitary Regulation of. (From Ord. No. 321, Mar. 28, 1912)
  • San Antonio, Tex.: Tenement Houses and Corrals. Construction, Occupation, and Maintenance. (Ord. May 31, 1915)
  • Elements of surveying and leveling — Davies, Charles, 1798-1876
  • An improved construction of stretcher for sick and wounded persons, and of vehicles and apparatus employed in combination therewith — Tell, Michael
  • Rudimentary treatise on the construction of cranes, and machinery for raising heavy bodies, for the erection of buildings, and for hoisting goods — Glynn, Joseph, 1799-1863
  • Discussion: Relating to a Construction for the Graph of a Cubic — Capron, Paul
  • Aperçu de quelques difficultés à vaincre dans la construction du canal de Panama [microforme] — Nelson, Wolfred, 1846-1913
  • Desiderata and Suggestions: No. 4. Mechanical Construction of Conformable Figures — Cayley, Professor
  • Remarks on the Employment of Oblique Riders, and on other Alterations in the Construction of Ships. [Abstract] — Young, Thomas
  • How to make a violin : The violin, its construction practically treated — ['Broadhouse, John', 'Bull, Ole, 1810-1880']
  • Coal mine surveying — ['Shurick, A. T. (Adam Thomas), b. 1883', 'Brinsmade, Robert Bruce, 1873-1936', 'Donaldson, Francis']
  • Arrêt du Conseil d'État du roi, qui ordonne que dans les forêts & bois les plus voisins des ports, à l'exception des quarts de réserve, il sera fait délivrance aux entrepreneurs de flottage, des étoffes, rouettes & autres bois nécessaires pour la construction des trains : du 29 juin 1785 : extrait des registres du Conseil d'État — ["France. Conseil d'Etat", 'Imprimerie royale (France), publisher']
  • A history of the planing-mill, with practical suggestions for the construction, care and management of wood-working machinery — Tompkins, Charles R
  • The hydraulic principles governing river and harbor construction — Townsend, Curtis McDonald, 1856-
  • The Gospel of St. John : in Greek and English, interlined, and literally translated; with a transposition of the words into their due order of construction; and a dictionary, defining and parsing them: principally designed for the use of schools — Friederici, E., ed. and tr
  • Geodaetes practicus: or, the art of surveying, ... 1664 — Wing, Vincent.
  • A new translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses into English prose, as near the original as the different idioms of the Latin and English languages will allow. With the Latin text and order of construction on the same page; and critical, historical, geogra — Ovid
  • Syntaxis mathematica: or, a construction of the harder problemes of geometry: ... 1655 — Gibson, Thomas.
  • Geographical Surveying, Its Uses, Methods and Results — Frank De Yeaux Carpenter
  • Field engineering. A hand-book of the theory and practice of railway surveying, location, and construction, designed for the class-room, field, and office, and containing a large number of useful tables, original and selected — Searles, William Henry, 1837-
  • A Treatise on the Application of Marine Surveying & Hydrometry to the Practice of Civil Engineering — David Stevenson
  • A treatise on surveying, comprising the theory and the practice .. — Gillespie, W. M. (William Mitchell), 1816-1868
  • A treatise on concrete, plain and reinforced; materials, construction, and design of concrete and reinforced concrete — Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 1856-1915
  • Deeds. Construction. Life Estate Raised by Implication
  • A treatise on highway construction : designed as a text-book and work of reference for all who may be engaged in the location, construction, or maintenance of roads, streets, and pavements — Byrne, Austin T. (Austin Thomas), 1859-
  • Explication des travaux entrepris pour la construction de la tonnelle ou passage sous la Tamise entre Rotherhithe et Wapping à l'effet d'ouvrir une communication permanente entre les deux reives de ce fleuve
  • Λογαριθμοτεχνια, or the construction, and use of the logarithmeticall tables;... 1626 — Wingate, Edmund
  • The Evolution of Mine-surveying Instruments — Dunbar D. Scott
  • A treatise on the construction of maps: comprehending an inquiry into the principles of mathematical geography and the relations of geography to astronomy: with rules for the formation of map-projections — Hughes, William, 1817-1876
  • A treatise on the construction, rigging & handling of model yachts, ships & steamers — Tyrrel E. Biddle
  • A treatise on masonry construction — Baker, Ira O. (Ira Osborn), 1853-1925
  • A treatise on the principal mathematical instruments employed in surveying, levelling and ... — Frederick Walter Simms
  • A treatise on steam boilers: Their Strength, Construction, and Economical Working — Robert Wilson
  • A treatise on the strength of timber, cast and malleable iron, and other materials: with rules for application in architecture, the construction of suspension bridges, railways, &c.: and an appendix on the power of locomotive engines, and the effect of inclined planes and gradients — ['Barlow, Peter, 1776-1863. [from old catalog]', 'Heather, J. F. (John Fry), d. 1886, ed', 'Willis, Robert, 1800-1875. [from old catalog]']
  • A treatise on the strength of timber, cast iron, malleable iron, and other materials : with rules for application in architecture, the construction of suspension bridges, railways, etc. : with an appendix on the power of locomotive engines, and the effect of inclined planes and gradients — Barlow, Peter, 1776-1862
  • Davies - Construction of wheel carriages, British Patent 13485 of 1851 — David Davies
  • Offord - Construction of Carriages, British Patent 53 of 1855 — Joseph Offord
  • Cours d'architecture, ou, Traité de la décoration, distribution & construction des bâtiments : contenant les leçons données en 1750, & les années suivants — ['Blondel, Jacques-François, 1705-1774', 'Patte, Pierre, 1723-1814']
  • Gas, gasoline and oil engines, including complete gas engine glossary; a simple, practical and comprehensive book on the construction, operation and repair of all kinds of engines. Dealing with the various parts in detail, and the various types of engines and also the use of different kinds of fuel — Rathbun, John B
  • The gas engineer's pocket-book, comprising tables, notes, and memoranda relating to the manufacture, distribution, and use of coal gas and the construction of gas works; — O'Connor, Henry, 1858-1915
  • The gasoline automobile : its design and construction — Heldt, Peter Martin, 1875-
  • The complete mathematical and general navigation tables, including every table required with the nautical almanac in finding the latitude and longitude: with an explanation of the construction, use, and application to navigation and nautical astronomy, trigonometry, dialling, gunnery, etc., etc — Kerigan, Thomas

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