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The following are a selection of old building books and antique
building book materials, some of which date back to the early 20th
Century.
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SOLD Claygate Old English Fireplaces
Claygate Old English Fireplaces catalogue, dated 1934. Chapters include: The old English fireplace, head offices, Mottled stock bricks, old English fireplaces, garden features, kiosk in oak with briquette filling, buildings in which Claygate bricks have been used, houses erected under our supervision, tennis courts, antique ironwork, mullion bricks, “Wellog firedogs”, list of briquettes, designs of various briquettes. This old softback book includes 64 pages with black and white photographs plus many detailed drawings throughout.
Date: 1934
Author: Claygate Old English Fireplaces catalogue
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Modern Practical Building (Volumes 1-3)
Modern Practical Building Volumes 1-3 by Harry Bryant Newbold, published by Caxton publishing and dated 1948. Chapters include:
Planning and design, site preparation and organisation, surveying and levelling, road construction, shoring, ties, underpinning and hoardings, excavating, foundations and footings, piling, drainagescaffolding and hoisting, stonework and masonry, mortars, brickwork, ornamental and gauged brickwork, structural design, structural steelwork, tiles and tiling, slates and slating, thatch and shingles, roof and wall sheeting, metal roofing, timber, carpentry, floors, joints and partitions, roof construction, timber framed buildings, plastering surfaces and materials, building defects and repairs plus other chapters.
Volume one includes 314 pages, volume two 351 pages, volume three 313 pages. All three books include a number of diagrams, black and white photographs and tables. Volume one has small tares to the first four pages.
Date: 1948
Author: Harry Bryant Newbold
Delivery: E
Price : £25.00
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Standard Method of Measurement of Building Works
Standard Method of Measurement of Building Works, dated 1927, authorised by agreement between the surveyors Institution, The quantity surveyors associations, now incorporated with the surveyors institution. The national federation of building trades employers of Great Britain & Ireland and the institute of builders. This old hardback book includes 73 pages.
Date: 1927
Author: --
Delivery: D
Price : £50.00
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Principles of Modern Building (Volume 2)
Principles of Modern Building Volume 2 - Floors and Roofs. Published
in 1961 by Her Majesty's Stationary office. Main chapters include:
- Suspended floors, - solid floors on the ground, - Floor finishes,
- Floor heating, - Roofs, - Flat roofs, - Pitched roofs, - Shell
roofs and other special types. Includes 199 pages some have tables
and diagrams, maintains original dust cover.
Date:1961
Book size :
Author: Published by Her Majesty's Stationary office
Delivery: B
Price : £18.00
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Mitchell's Elementary Building Construction
Mitchell's Elementary Building Construction, first published 1959,
reprinted 1964 and printed by The Whitefrias Press Ltd. Chapters
include: - Survey, - Excavation, - Concrete, - Walling, - Masonry
brickwork, - Masonry stonework, - Timber, - Roofs and floors, -
Joinery, - Pitched roof coverings, - Drainage plus a few other chapters.
Includes 392 pages many with drawings and diagrams.
Date:1964 Book size :
Author: Mitchell’s Delivery: B Price : £16.00
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Mordern Practical Building (Volumes 1 - 4)
The modern practical building volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4 by Harry Bryant
Newbold and published by Caxton. First published March 1934, reprinted
july 1954. A few sample chapters include: Stairs and stair-building,
water supply and inside sanitation, heating, ventilation, thermal
and sound insulation, painting, decoration, glazier's work, prefabricated
construction, ornamental brickwork, fireplaces and flutes, structural
design, structural steelwork. Timber, carpentry: centering and shuttering,
roof construction, timber framed buildings, joinery doors and windows
plus many other building related chapters. Pages: Volume 1 has 366
pages, volume 2 has 353 pages, volume 3 has 315 pages and volume
4 has 380 pages. Each book has a number of photographs, diagrams,
drawings and charts featured within them.
Date:1954
Book size :
Author: Harry Bryant Newbold
Delivery: E
Price : £38.00
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Building Construction - Part IV Calculations for Building Structures
This 380 page book dated 1922 covers a number of subject areas
including equilibrium, beams, cast iron girders, compression bars,
joints and connections, plate girders, braced or framed structures,
hydraulics and much more. The book includes many tables and illustrations.
Date: 1922
Book size: 9 1/2" x 6"
Author: Rivington / Longmans
Delivery: C
Price : £18.00
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Builders and Estimating Book
Builders and estimating book by E.D.Clayton. 1934, 204 pages
with tables and illustrations. Cover abit tired.
Date: 1934
Book size: 7 3/4" x 5 1/4"
Author:
Delivery: A
Price : £15.00
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Structural Surveys of Dwelling Houses
Structural surveys of Dwelling Houses by Ian.A.Melville and Ian.A.Gordon.
1974, 426 pages with illustrations and photographs. Has dust cover.
8 7/8" x 5 3/4".
Date: 1974
Book size: 8 7/8" x 5 3/4"
Author:
Delivery: A
Price : £15.00
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Structural Engineers Handbook
Structural engineers handbook, ketchun. 896 pages with many illustrations
and tables.
Date: 1919
Book size: 6 1/4" x 9 1/4"
Author:
Delivery: C
Price : £30.00
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The Pressure Piling System
The pressure piling system. 29 pages with photographs and illustrations
some good old photos.
Date: unknown
Book size :8 3/6" x 5 5/8"
Author:
Delivery: P
Price : £6.00
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Principals of Modern Building Vol 1
Principals of modern building Vol 1, H.M Stationery Office,
1950, 420 pages, includes tables, illustrations and black &
white photographs. Book measures 5 1/2" x 8 5/8" (140mm
x 220mm).
Date: 1950
Book size : 5 1/2" x 8 5/8" (140mm
x 220mm)
Author: H.M Stationery Office
Delivery: A
Price : £12.00
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A.B.C of Builders Estimating
A.B.C of Builders Estimating by R.G.Bailey 1948, 24 pages.
Date: 1948
Book size: 9 1/4" x 6"
Author:
Delivery: P
Price : £5.00
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Quantities in Architectural Building Construction
Quantities in architectural building construction volume 1 by
F.E.Drury & Graham Doyle, 1934, 235 pages with illustrations,
Bill of quantities and at rear a fold out house plan of "the
cottage". Cover faded, lot of information. 7 3/4" x 5 3/8".
Date: 1934
Book size: 7 3/4" x 5 3/8"
Author: Delivery: A
Price : £18.00 |
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Estimating Analysis for Builders
Estimating analysis for Building by G.Chrystal Smith. 68 pages
with tables and some illustrations.
Date: unknown
Book size: 7 1/8" X 4 3/4"
Author:
Delivery: P
Price : £6.00
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