Jun 07, 2012 - Sale 2280

Sale 2280 - Lot 262

Price Realized: $ 2,160
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(ENGINEERING.) Adami, G. F. Interesting album containing 44 expert plans and drawings for various projects in the area of Surrey, England. Most plans on large folding folio sheets bount into a folio format 1/2 morocco binding; endpapers renewed. Each sheet Signed lower right by Adami .should be seen. Surrey, 1896-98

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A student or professional in the area of engineering would make sense of these lovely rendernings. A few of the headings from the various sheets may suggest the aims of Mr. Adami: 3 inch bolt Design for Skew Bridge Chain Survey at Coopers Hill Trigonometrical Survey at Coopers Hill Railway Project Cross Sections Watt's Parallel Motion Design for 34 H.P. Turbine - 65 Feet Tall Masonry Dam Reservoir Empty etc. Locales in which the projects seem to have been planned included Coopers Hill and Chobham Common. The front cover of the binding is stamped with Adami's name and "R.I.E. College," suggesting that Adami may have been at student or faculty mamber at the Roayl Indian Engineering College, founded in 1870 at Coopers Hill. The College was instituted to train Civil Engineers for service in India. Representative photos may be supplied on request.