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Remarks on the different constructions of bridges, and improvements to secure their foundations on the different soils where they are intended to be built. Which hitherto seems to have been a thing not sufficiently consider'd.
Marquand, Charles.Date: M.DCC.XLIX. [1749]- Books
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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 which The Puerility of that Performance is Considered.
Date: M.DCC.XLIX. [1749]
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Nitocris, Queen of Babylon, supervising the building of a bridge over the River Euphrates. Etching after J. de Seve.
Sève, Jacques de, active 1742-1788.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 36934i- Books
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Description of the curious wooden bridge across the Rhine, at Schaffhausen, in Switzerland. Extracted from Andreæ's letters on Switzerland, and other authorities. To accompany the print of the bridge, published by J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, High Holborn, London, 1799.
Date: [1799?]- Books
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A collection of designs in architecture, containing new plans and elevations of houses, for general use. With A great Variety of Sections of rooms; from a common Room, to the most grand and magnificent. their decorations, viz. Bases, Surbases, Architraves, Freezes, and Cornices, properly inriched with Foliages, Frets and Flowers, in a New and Grand Taste. With margins and mouldings for the panelling. All large enough for Practice. To which are added, curious designs of stone and timber bridges, Extending from Twenty Feet to Two Hundred and Twenty, in One Arch. Likewise some Screens and Pavilions. In Two Volumes. Each containing Sixty Plates, curiously engraved on Copper. By Abraha Swan, Architect. ...
Swan, Abraham.Date: M.D.CCLVII. [1757]