HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 705 



14056 RENNIE (John, C.K., F.R.S. ; engineer of Waterloo and London Bridges and of the Plymouth 

 Breakwater ; father of George and Sir John Hennie) REPORT concerning the PRACTICABILITY and 

 EXPENCE of the Lines surveyed by Messrs. JOHN AINSLIE and ROBERT WHITWORTH, Jun. for 

 a CANAL between EDINBURGH and GLASGOW . . . with the Improvements made, and also the 

 Practicability and Expence of the NEW LINE by LINLITHGOW and FALKIRK, 4to. (pp. 27), sewn, 

 with numerous MS. notes by George Rennie, 10s Kd 1798 



14057 REPORT and ESTIMATE on the IMPROVEMENT of the DRAINAGE and NXVVIGATION 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, 5s 1810 



14058 ANOTHER COPY, extra-illustrated with 8 large folding plates (some coloured), and 



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



Both John Rennie and his son Sir John were engaged in the improvement of the Bedford Level, although the middle 

 level, the most difficult to manage, was completedat a cost of 400,000- only in 1852 ; 'but in May 1.8(52 it gave way 

 under pressure of a strong tide, and the Western bank of the middle-level drain burst, speedily flooding aboit 6000 acres 

 of fertile land. This led to the construction of a permanent cofter-dani of pile-work to shut oft' the tidal waters.' 



14059 REPORT concerning the Practicability and Expence of making a NAVIGABLE CANAL 



through the WEALD of KENT, to join the Rivers Medway, Stour, and Rother, with large folding 

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



This would have meandered from near Yalding to Wye, with a branch by High Halden to the Royal Military Canal. 



14060 ANOTHER COPY, with pencil sketch of a Girl at the Albion Hotel, Brighton, by GEORGK 



RENNIE, 8* 



14061 THE SAME, without the map, 3s 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 + 8), sewn, 10s 1800 



This was the great fen area, roughly triangular, extending from Boston to Dogdyke near Tattershall and thence to 

 Little Steeping. 



14063 : ROMNEY MARSH and RYE HARBOUR : a very interesting Collection of the Reports 



and Estimates for their Improvement, from SIR NATHANIEL POWELL'S in 1662 to JAMES RENNIE'S 

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



Including the Reports, Proposals, and Estimates (besides those mentioned above) by Robrit Colepeper, Thomas 

 Herlackenden, John Perry, Lt.-Col. Justly Watson, R.K., Edward Collingwood, John Major, and John Smeaton, K.R.S. 



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

 fore be of importance also to the topographer 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 Building them, by 

 Nicholas Hawksmoor, first edition, with 5 folding copperplates ; with MS. Copies of four 

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

 calf (rare and interesting), 2. 15s 1736 



Hawksmoor's only literary publication. 



'The plates drawn by Hawksmoor and engraved by B. 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 some conjectures as to the probable effect on the navigation.' 1). N. 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, Limehouse, 

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



The above volume is specially interesting for having belonged to JOHX RENNIE, 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 SMEATON, F.K.S., with a brief Reply by a Freeholder (1782) : A Copy of Mr. Mylnes Opinion and Report to the 

 Magistrates of Northumberland respecting the Practicability of building a permanent Bridge at Hexham : Copy of a Letter 

 to Mr. L. Becker, Director and First Secretary of the Batavian Society for Experimental Philosophy at Rotterdam: 

 Treatise on Rivers and Canals, by THEODORE AUGUSTUS MANN. 



14065 - , SPECIFICATION of the MODE of executing the proposed NEW LONDON BRIDGE, as 

 designed by the late, folio (pp. 16), sewn, Is 6d November 13, 1823 



14066 SPECIFICATION of the EARTHWORK of the NEW proposed CUT for the RIVER OUZE, 



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 point 

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



14067 : SPECIFICATIONS for the KENNET and AVON CANAL, between Foxhanger and Devizes ; a 



neatly written MS. Copy of John Reunie's original Reports, with a few MS. Corrections 

 by the latter, sm. folio, law calf (one joint cracked), 12* 1801 



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

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

 dances not to its piping, and it may be recommended to the oarsman as a charming (if muchbelocked) route through some 

 of the most beautiful country in 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 : REMARKS 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 throughout by him on 9O 11. of 

 paper, 4to. hf. bound, with auto. ' John Hennie ' on flyleaf, 2. 10s [c. 1784] 



This Manuscript was probably written on or immediately after leaving Edinburgh University, when be established a 

 business on his own account as a millwright. 



