706 HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., UO, STRAND, W.C., AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 



14070 RENNIE (Sir John, c.e., f.r.s., p.i.c.e.; completer of London Bridge and of the 

 Plymouth Breakwater) HISTORY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, AN UNPUBLISHED 

 MS. on over 800 pp., in 12 vols. (v. IV. missing) folio, parchment, £15. I5s [ 1839-? 74] 



A very interesting Manuscript, which must have formed the basis of Sir John Rennie's presidential address to the 

 Institution of Civil Eai^ineers on the history of Civil Engineering, in 1S46. Some of the volumes bear extensive 

 alterations and corrections, the work having evidently been designed for publication. This is borne out by a passage in 

 the author's Autohiofiraphy (p. 456) : ' I also design to write a history of engineering, enlarged from my address to the 

 Institution of Civil Engineers, and a life of my revere<l father. All these I have already sketched out, and I hope to com- 

 plete them, if it please God to spare my life a few jears longer.' None of these works were carried out, although the 

 author's wish had been granted. 



THE ORIGINAL SCHEME OF THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY : 



14071 : Book of Reference of a Portion of the Projected Line of the Northern Rail- 

 way, extending from London to Cambridge, containing the Names of the Owners or reputed 

 Owners and Occupiers of Property, to be taken under the Authority of an Act to be obtained 

 for making a Rail Road from LONDON to Cromford, a Manuscript on 138 pp., prepared for 

 Sir John Rennie, 4to. roan, £1. 1* [c. 1837] 



This would have made the Great Eastern the original ' Great Northern ' railway, and lacking endless tunnels a much 

 more comfortable line. But it stuck at Cambridge. It is plain from the abjve interesting MS. that the first intention of 

 all was to make it join the very early High Peak Railway, which still exists as a mineral line from Buxton to Wirksworth. 



14072 Letter to the Duke of Bedford, Governor of the Corporation of the Bedford Level, 



on the Drainage of the Middle Level, with large folding map, 4to. (pp. 17), sewn, 5s 1842 



14073 Outline of tlie Progress of Civil Engineering in Great Britain, since the Time 



of Smeaton to the present Day (Presidential Address to the Institution of Civil Engineers), 4to. 

 (pp. 109), sewn, 7s 6d 1846 



14074 Report on the Pier, proposed to be erected at Deal, 8vo (pp. 15), sewn, is 1838 



14075 Report on the Improvement of the River Dee, and Port and Harbour of Chester, 



8vo. (pp. 17), seivn, 4s Chester [1837] 



14076 Report on the Estuary of the Nene, between the Sutton Bridge Embankment, and 



the Limits prescribed by the Nene Outfall Act, as to the most advisable Line for Embanking out 

 the Whole or any Portion of it from the Sea, with folding plan, roy, 4to. (pp. 5), unbound, 4s 1839 



14077 Report and Estimates on the Improvement of the Navigation of the River Nene, 



from its Outfall to Peterborough ; and for the most efficient Drainage of Moreton's Leam Wash 

 and Whittlesea Mere, and a Portion of the adjoining Lands in the Middle District of the Great 

 Bedford Level, icith coloured folding plan, roy. 8vo. (pp. 24), sewn, os 1837 



At this date tlie boom of the bittern was still to be heard on Whittlesoa Mere. 



14078 Report to the Commissioners of Scarbro' Harbour, 8vo. (pp. 24), sewn, 4s 



Scarborough, 1834 



14079 The Theory, Formation, and Construction of British and Foreign Harbours, 



with fine portrait by J. Andreivs (splendid impression), and 133 fine steel plates by J. W. Lowry, 

 etc., 2 vols, atlas folio, hf. morocco gilt, t. e. g. {joints rubbed), £3. 3* 1854 



' This great work, the result of the toil of many years, includes examples from almost every country, from the earliest 

 dawn of civilization to the present day, illustrated, when practicable, by the original documents and reports. It can now 

 (lSt5fl| be had (and by the architect it must be had) for about £12. \2s:—AlUhonr. 



140S0 , Autobiography of, comprising the History of his Professional Life, with Reminiscences 



dating from the Commencement of the Century, with portrait, roy. 8vo. cl. (o. p.), 65 6c? 

 (p. 125 %d) 1875 



The interesting account of Sir John Rennie's varied professional life, from his early boyhood as a schoolfellow of 

 Shelley s at Isleworth, to his work on Southwark and Waterloo bridges under his father, and liis building of London 

 Bridge, and his work in Sweden, Spain, and elsewhere on the Continent. 



Sir John Rennie was the first civil engineer to be knighted since Sir Hugh Myddleton of the New River - a small slight 

 on the great succession of English civil engineers, but a big one on the order of knighthood. ' He was the last of his race, 

 and formed a connecting link between the Brindleys, the Smeatons, the Rennies, and the Telfords of the old system and 

 the Stephensons and th*^ Brunels of the new.' — D. N. B. 



14C81 BENTON (A. H., c.E.) OBSERVATIONS on ARTIFICIAL Light, with plate of lamp, 8vo. 



(pp. 20), sewn, 3^ 6c? ' I860 



The new lamp recommended is an improved ' Drummond ' Lamp (an oxy-hydrogen lime lamp Avith a single jet). 



Electricity [in the arc-lampj is mentioned as ' unfit for the general purposes of lighting, setting aside its enormous 



cost ' (p. .')). 



14082 REPERTORY (The) of ARTS, MANUFACTURES, and AGRICULTURE, consisting 

 of Original Communications, Patent Specifications, and Select Practical Papers, from the 

 Philosophical Societies, etc. etc., and Notices of all Patents granted, 1794-8, 1802-8, and 

 1818-23 (1st Ser. Vols. 1-9, 2nd Ser. Vols. 1-12, 32-5, and 37 A'2), in ith numerous plates (mostly 

 folding) on copper — in all 31 vols. 8vo. old calf and hf calf (many Joints broken), £2. lOs 175U-1823 



14053 '■ — First Series, Vols. 1-6, with numerous copperplates, 6 vols. 8vo. old hf calf gilt. 



15s 1794t7 



A publication very valuable in connexion with the history of engineering and technology, as it contains copious 

 descriptions and illustrations of the more important inventions patented in Gt. Britain. 



14054 RESAL (Ame Henri, de VInstitut) Traite Elementaire de Mecanique Celeste, 2^ 

 [DERNiiiRE I Edition [entierement refondue]; t^zYA 26 c?mg'raws,4to.5etyn, \^sM p. F. 25 nett) 1884 

 ' Among valuable text-books on mathematical astronomy ranks Traite de Mrcaniquc Celeste of H. Resal '.—Prof. Cajcri. 



14085 Traite de Mecanique Generale, comprenant les Lecons professees a I'Ecole Poly- 

 technique ; with chromolithographs, and hundreds of woodcuts and diagrams, 6 vols. 8vo. hf. 

 morocco neat, cl. sides (nice set), £1. 15* (p. F. 63 nett sewn) , 1873-81 



14036 — Traite de Physique Mathematique, 2^ [derniere] Edition, augments et entiere- 



ment refondue ; with 65 diagrams, 2 vols. 4to. in 1, hf morocco (slightly rubbed), 17s 6d (p. F. 27 

 nett sewn) ' 1887-8 



Contjviuing: I. Capillarite, Elasticity, Lumiere. II. Chaleur, Thermodynamique, filectro-statique, Conrants electriques, 

 Electrodynamique, Magntitisme statique, Mouvement des aimants et dcs courants. 



