Description: The Modern House-Carpenter’s Companion and Builder’s Guide: Being a Hand-Book for Workmen, and a Manual of Reference for Contractors and Builders; Giving Rules for Getting the Lengths and Finding the Bevels for Rafters for Pitch, Hip, and Valley Roofs; the Construction of French and Mansard Roofs, Several Forms of Trusses, Stairs, Splayed and Circular Work, Etc.; Table of Braces, Sizes and Weights of Window Sash, and Frames for the Same; Table of Board, Plank and Scantling Measure, Etc. By W.A. Sylvester, Forty-Five Full-Page Plates, Palliser, Palliser & Co., New York, 1884, 192 pp plus index, brown cloth, 8 x 5.5”, 8vo. In good condition. Light wear to extremities with minor scuffing along edges and corners. Modest abrasions to joints with light crushing to ends. Bookplate of Maurice Robert Des Marais on front end pastedown. Des Marais was a longtime faculty member in the Department of Architecture at Penn State College of Arts and Architecture and a corporate member of the American Institute of Architects. Purple antiquarian stamp of P. Thomsen of flyleaf. Front gutter slightly tender. Light toning throughout with minor instances of age stain. Free of known marginalia. Binding intact. Please see photos. An interesting and useful little book with a series of house floor plans appended at the rear. COLA1884ACDD-1023
Price: 100 USD
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
End Time: 2024-12-12T17:45:38.000Z
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Binding: Cloth
Language: English
Author: W.A. Sylvester
Publisher: Palliser, Palliser & Co.
Topic: Architecture
Subject: Engineering
Original/Facsimile: Original
