Excerpt from Road Making and Maintenance: A Practical Treatise for Engineers, Surveyors and Others, With an Historical Sketch of Ancient and Modern Practice This treatise is divided into two parts. The first relates to the making and the maintaining of Macadamised Roads, while the second part deals with Carriageways and Footpaths. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books ...
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Excerpt from Road Making and Maintenance: A Practical Treatise for Engineers, Surveyors and Others, With an Historical Sketch of Ancient and Modern Practice This treatise is divided into two parts. The first relates to the making and the maintaining of Macadamised Roads, while the second part deals with Carriageways and Footpaths. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. pp xvi, 440, [23]-86. Original publisher's burgundy cloth, lettered gilt on spine. 15 plates (3 folding). Includes excellent plates of steam rollers. A little rubbing at hinges, otherwise sound, clean, very good.
