ROEBLING (JOHN A.) Long and Short Span Railway Bridges, 1869
Lot 126•
ROEBLING (JOHN A.) Long and Short Span Railway Bridges, 1869
Sold for £375 (US$ 574) inc. premium

Lot Details
ROEBLING (JOHN A., civil engineer)
Long and Short Span Railway Bridges, first edition, engraved frontispiece, 13 engraved plates (11 double-page, 2 folding on 2 sheets joined), blindstamp on frontispiece, title and final leaf, cloth, lacks spine, folio, New York, D. Van Nostrand, 1869

Footnotes

  • The celebrated German-American engineer whose career culminated in the Brooklyn Bridge of 1883. See illustration overleaf.
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