[ENGINEERING] [ARCHITECTURE] THE DESIGNING OF ORDINARY IRON HIGHWAY BRIDGES

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1884. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto; in the publisher’s brown cloth; xi, 244 pages, including the Index, and followed by 7 folding plates; the binding is rubbed and has some wear, with a small hole in the front joint; the plates extrude a bit from the binding and as a result are a bit tatty at the folds.~~The seven plates are the following: I. Isometric Drawing of a Bridge with Names of Main Members; II. General Descriptive Plate of Details; III. Details for a Pony Truss Bridge; IV. Details for a Single-Intersection Through City Bridge with Two Sidewalks; V. Diagram of Stresses and Sections; VI. Working-Drawings for a Bridge; VII. Working-Drawing for Falsework. Very Good binding.