HENKY SOTHEKAX vV CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., and 43, PICCADILLY, ^V. 70o 



14056 BENNIE (John, c.e., f.r.s. ; engineer of Waterloo and London Bridges and of the Plymouth 

 Breakvater ; father of George and Sir John llennie) ILeport concerninj,' the PRACTlCABiLiTY and 

 ExpENCE of the Lines surveyed by Messrs. John Ainslii: and Robert Whitworth, Jun. for 

 a Canal between Edinburgh and Glasgow . . . with the Iniprovenients made, and also the 

 Practicability and Expence of the New Line by Linlithgow and Falkirk, 4to. (pp. 27), sewn, 

 with numerous MS. notes by Gteorjfe Bennie, 10s nrf 1798 



14057 Report and Estimate on the Improvement of the Drainage and Navigation of the 



South and Middle Levels of the Great Level of the Fens, in Consequence of a Reference 

 from the Hon. Corporation of the Bedford Level, 4to. (pp. 18), sewn, os 1810 



1405S Another Copy, extra-illustrated n-ith 8 la7'ge folding i^lates {some colovred)^ and 



folding map, 4to. (pp. 18), sewn, with Sir John Rennie's auto. £1. Is 1810 



Both John Rennie and his son Sir .Jolin were engaged in the iniprov.nit'nt df the Bedford Level, although the middle 

 level, the most difticult to manage, was completed— at a cost of £4(>0,0(X»- only in 1852 ; 'but in May ISO'J it gave way 

 under pressure of a otron;,' tide, and the Western bank of the middle-level drain burst, speedily Hooding about ilOOo acres 

 of fertile land. Tliis led to tin- construction of a iiermanent colfcr-dani of pile-work to shut olt the tidal waters. ' 



14059 Report concernino; the Practicability and Expence of makin^r a Navigable Canal 



throuo;h the Weald of Kent, to join the Rivei-s Medwa> , Stour, and Rother, with large folding 



plan, 4to. (pp. 9), sewn, Is [1809] 



Tins would have meandered from near Yaldingto Wye, with a branch by High Halden to the Itoyal Military Canal. 



14060 Another Copy, with pencil sketch of a Girl at the Albion Hotel, Brighton, by George 



Rennie, 8* 



14061 The Same, without the Uiap, ^s 6<f 



14062 Report [and Second Report] concerning the Drainage of Wildmore Fen, and of 



the East and West Fens [Lincolnshire], with folding map, '2 parts 4to. (pp. 22 -f 8), semi, \0s 1800 

 This was the great fen area, roughly triangular, extending from Bo>ton to J»ogdyke near TatttTshall and thence to 



Little Steeping. 



14063 : ROMNEY Marsh and Rye Harijour : a very interesting Collection of the Reports 



and E.stiraates for their Improvement, from Sir Nathaniel Powell's in 166'2 to James Rennie's 

 in 1801 ; a very neatly written MS. on 324 pp., 4to. calf, £1. 5* c. 1800 



Including the Iteports, I'rojiosals, and Estimates (besides those mentioned irbove) by Robcit Colejteper, Thomas 

 Herlackenden, John Perry, Lt.-(-'ol. Justly Watson, h.k., Edward Collingwood, John Major, and John Smeaton, k.r.s. 



It would probably be impossible to bring together a collection of these documents, and the Manuscript should there- 

 fore be of importance also to the topoj^rapher of Kent and Sussex. 



14064 : A Short Historical Account of London-Bridge, with a Proposition for a New 



Stone- Bridge at Westminster, as also an Account of some Remarkable Stone-Bridges Abroad, 

 and what the best Authors have said and directed concerning the Methods of Buildin«;: them, by 

 Nicholas Hawksmoor, first edition, with b folding copperplates ; with MS. Copies of four 

 Works on Bridge Building (as below), mostly in the autograph of John llennie— 4to. old 

 c«//(rare and interesting), £2. 155 1736 



Hawksmoor's only literary publication. 



'The plates drawn by Hawksumor and engraved by 13. Cole and Toms include 'A Plan of the City of Westminster,' 

 with suggestions as to suitable places for a bridge ; ' Propositions for London Bridge to be altered for the Navigation 

 under and the Safety of Passengers over it ' : and ' Propositions for a New Bridge at Westminster '. Charles de Labelye 

 made from Hawksmoor's draughts a calculation to estimate the fall of the water at the intended bridge at Westminster, 

 and .-ouie con.iectures as to the ])robable eft'ect on the navigation.' — 1>. S. 11. 



Nicholas Hawksmoor was the 'scholar' and greatest pupil of Wren, and helped in building St. Paul's, He did much 

 work at Queen's and All Souls Colleges at Oxford, but his most interesting works to Londoners are St. Mary Woolnoth in 

 Lombard St. and his many East End churches under Queen Anne's ' Fifty' scheme, which include St. Anne's, Limehoiisr, 

 St. George's in the East, and that noble church, Christ Church, Spitalfields. 



The at)Ove volume is si>ecially interesting for having belonged to John Kknnik, who afterwards actually built New 

 London Bridge, still the noblest bridge in England. The works added by him are : Memorial concerning Hexham Bridge, 



by John Smkaton, f.k.s., with a brief Reply by a Freeholder (17.S2) : A Copy of Mr. Mylnes Opinion and Report to the 

 >iagistrate8 of Northimiberland resiwcting the Practicability of building a permanent Bridge at Hexham : Copy of a Lett 

 to BTr. L. Becker, Director and First Secretary of the Batavian Society for Experimental Philosophy at Rotterdai 



>iagistrate8 of Northimiberland resiwcting the Practicability of building a permaiient Bridge at Hexham : Copj^^of a Letter 



to BTr. L. Becker, Director and First Secretary of the Bata\ " . ~ .. 



Treatise on Rivers and Canals, by Thkodork Ac(;l'stus Mann, 



14065 , Specification of the Mode of executing the proposed New London Bridge, as 



designed by the late, folio (pp. 16), sewn. Is Qd November 13, 1823 



14066 Specification of the Earthwork of the New proposetl Cut for the River Ou/e, 



between Eau Brink and Lynn, folio (pp. 4), unbound, 5s 1818 



The Eau Brink Cut was one of the latest civil engineering works undertaken by John Rennie, and ' was on the iK)int 

 of completion at the time of his death ' (/>. N. B.). 



14067 : Specifications for the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Foxhanger and Devizes ; a 



neatly written MS. Copy of John Rennie's original Reports, ivith a few MS. Corrections 



by the latter, sni. folio, law calf (one Joint cracked), I2s 1801 



The Kennet and Avon was duly carried out, and with the Stroud water Canal gives a through waterway between F.ondon 

 and Bristol. Much money was spent on it as lately as a few years ago, and it is in thorough navigable order ; but trattiic 

 dances not to its piping, and it may l>e reconunende*! to the oarsman as a charming (if much Ixdocked routi- through some 

 of the most l)eautiful country ir. England. 



14068 : Lambert (Jean Henri) Experiments and Observations upon Mills that are turned 



by Water moving in a Horizontal Direction : Remarks upon Mills and other 

 Machines whose Wheels take the Water at a certain Height : Kemarks upon Mills and 

 other Machines where the Water falls in above the Wheel : Remarks upon Wind Mills, with 

 folding plate : Elements of the Theory of Machines, with folding plate and diagram, the 

 'whole translated by John Rennie, a Manuscript written throngrhout by him on 90 11. of 

 paper, 4to. hf. boinid, with auto. ' Johii liennie ' on flyleaf, £2. 10* [c. 1784] 



This Manuscrii't was j.robably written on or immediately after leaving Edinburgh University, wlien'l»e established a 

 business on his own account as a millwright. 



