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A practical essay on a cement and artificial stone : justly supposed to be that of the Greeks and Romans, lately re-discovered by Monsieur Loriot, Master of Mechanics to His Most C...

by Loriot, Antoine-Joseph
Published 1777

printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand

Subjects: “...Concrete construction...”

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An account of the present state of the Hebrides and western coasts of Scotland : in which an attempt is made to explain the circumstances that have hitherto repressed the industry...

by Anderson, James
Published 1785

printed [by Mundell & Wilson] for G. Robinson, London, and C. Elliot, Edinburgh

Subjects: “...Canals / Scotland / Design and construction...”

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Observations on a pamphlet lately published : Entitled, Remarks on the different Constructions of Bridges, and Improvements to secure their Foundations, &c. By Charles Marquand. In...

Published 1749

printed for the author, and sold by W. Owen, at Temple-Bar

Subjects: “...Marquand, Charles / Remarks on the different constructions of bridges...”

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Proposals for raising an infirmary : By Voluntary Subscription and Contribution, for the more Immediate Relieving the Sick and Diseased poor

Published 1740

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Subjects: “...Hospitals / Design and construction / Early works to1800 / Early works to 1800...”

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Wright, mayor. A common council, holden in the chamber of the Guildhall of the city of London, on Friday the twenty-fourth day of February, 1786. The committee, for building and co...

Published 1786

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Subjects: “...Bridges / Design and construction / Costs / England / London / Early works to 1800...”

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Peckham, mayor. A common-council holden in the chamber of the Guildhall of the City of London, on Friday the fourteenth day of May, 1784, and in the twenty-fourth year of the reign...

Published 1784

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Subjects: “...Bridges / Design and construction / Costs / England / London / Early works to 1800...”

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An account of the present state of the Hebrides. And western coasts of Scotland : in which an attempt is made to explain the circumstances that have hitherto repressed the industry...

by Anderson, James
Published 1785

printed [by Mundell & Wilson] for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, London, and C. Elliot, Edinburgh

Subjects: “...Canals / Scotland / Design and construction...”

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48

Observations on bridge building : and the several plans offered for a new bridge. In a letter addressed to the gentlemen of the committee, appointed by the Common-Council of the Ci...

by Publicus
Published 1760

printed and sold by J. Townsend, at the Corner of White Friers, in Fleet-Street

Subjects: “...Bridges / Design and construction / Early works to 1800...”

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An Act for improving and enlarging the harbour of Leith : and to empower the trustees therein mentioned to purchase lands for that purpose, and for erecting docks and other conveni...

Published 1754

printed by Thomas Baskett; and by the assigns of Robert Baskett

Subjects: “...Harbors / Design and construction / Early works to 1800...”

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Thoughts on the construction and polity of prisons, with hints for their improvement

by Jebb, John
Published 1785

printed by J. Rackham. A few to be also had of C. Punchard, Ipswich. No copies to be sold

Subjects: “...Prisons / Design and construction...”

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51

Description and use of the patent military and naval telescope : for measuring distances and the extension of objects at sight; by means of a new micrometrical adjustment. Dedicate...

by Rand, Cater
Published 1799

printed for the author; and sold with the telescope at Watkin's, optician. N. 70. St. James's Street

Subjects: “...Optical instruments / Design and construction / Early works to 1800...”

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52

An act for erecting of hospitals and work-houses within the city of Bristoll, for the better employing and maintaining the poor thereof

Published 1714

printed by John Baskett, and by the assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, deceas'd

Subjects: “...Hospital buildings / Design and construction / Early works to 1800...”

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A memorial from the building committee of the governors of the Hospitals for the Small-Pox and for Inoculation

Published 1792

Subjects: “...Hospital buildings / Design and construction / Early works to 1800...”

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[Report of John Ainslie and Robert Whitworth jun : concerning the practicability and expence of making the different tracks proposed for a canal betwixt the cities of Edinburgh and...

by Ainslie, John
Published 1797

Subjects: “...Canals / Design and construction / Costs / Early works to 1800...”

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A philosophical investigation of the origin : Vicissitude, and Power of steam employed in a fire-engine with A candid and familiar Explanation of the Parts, Powers, and true Constr...

by Clarke, Cuthbert
Published 1773

printed and sold by T. Slack, for the author

Subjects: “...Steam-engines / Design and construction / Early works to 1800...”

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Reports, with plans, sections, &c. of the proposed dry tunnel, or passage, from Gravesend, in Kent, to Tilbury, in Essex; demonstrating its practicability, and Great Importance to...

by Dodd, Ralph
Published 1798

printed for J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, High Holborn

Subjects: “...Tunnels / England / Gravesend (Kent) / Design and construction...”

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57

Contract of agreement : for building an Exchange, in the city of Edinburgh, between the magistrates and town-council, and the tradesmen

Published 1754

printed by Hamilton, Balfour, and Neill

Subjects: “...Construction contracts / Scotland / Edinburgh / Early works to 1800...”

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Anno regni Georgii III. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, undecimo : At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the tenth day of May, Anno. Dom. 1768, in the eigh...

Published 1771

printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty

Subjects: “...Canals / Design and construction / Early works to 1800...”

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The Carpenters' rules of work, in the town of Boston

by Blake, William Pynson
Published 1795

Printed for William P. Blake, at the Boston Bookstore, no. 59, Cornhill

Subjects: “...Construction contracts...”

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A scheme for speedily raising a sum of money sufficient to defray the expence of building a stone bridge at Black-Fryars : humbly offered to the consideration of the Right Honourab...

by Liveryman
Published 1759

printed for I. Pottinger, in Pater-Noster-Row

Subjects: “...Bridges / Design and construction / Costs / Early works to 1800...”

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