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Elementary principles of carpentry; a treatise on the pressure and equilibrium of timber framing, the resistance of timber, and the construction of floors, centres, bridges, roofs; uniting iron and stone with timber, etc., with practical rules and examples. To which is added an essay on the nature and properties of timber, including the methods of seasoning, and the causes and prevention of decay, with descriptions of the kinds of wood used in building. Also numerous tables of the scantlings of timber ... the specific gravities of materials. etc. Illustrated by fifty-three engravings, a portrait of the author, and several wood cuts. By Thomas Tredgold ...

Assessment methodology handbook : carved stone decay in Scotland / by Tim Yates, Roy Butlin and John Houston.

Stone cleaning and the nature, soiling and decay mechanisms of stone : proceedings of the International Conference held in Edinburgh, UK, 14-16 April 1992 / sponsored by Historic Scotland, Scottish Enterprise ; organized by The Robert Gordon Institute of Technology, Aberdeen, UK ; edited by Robin G. M. Webster.

Research commission investigating stone decay and stone cleaning : research report / Marion Roberts and Dennis Urquhart.

Monument future : decay and conservation of stone : proceedings of the 14th International Congress on the Deterioration and Conservation of Stone / Siegfried Siegesmund / Bernhard Middendorf (eds.).

Carbonate stone: chemical behaviour, durability, and conservation; [by] K. Lal Gauri [and] Jayanta K. Bandyopadhyay.

Modelling stone decay / C. M. Lambe ....[et al].

Modelling stone decay / Canice Lambe.

Stone decay and conservation : atmospheric pollution, cleaning, consolidation, and protection / Giovanni G. Amoroso and Vasco Fassina ; foreword by S.Z. Lewin.

Stone, brick and mortar : historical use, decay and conservation of building materials in Ireland / Sara Pavía and Jason Bolton.

Stone decay : its causes and controls / edited by, Bernard J. Smith and Alice V. Turkington.

Building stone decay : from diagnosis to conservation / edited by R. Přykryl (Charles University, Prague) and B.J. Smith (Queen's University, Belfast).

Stone decay : origins and identification / Aidan Duffy.

Stone decay and its prevention, / James Ernest Marsh.

Stone : stone building materials, construction and associated component systems : : their decay and treatment / edited by John Fidler.

Processes of urban stone decay : proceedings of SWAPNET '95 Stone Weathering and Atmospheric Pollution Network Conference held in Belfast, 19-20 May 1995 / edited by Bernard J. Smith and Patricia A. Warke.

Decay and conservation of stone masonry / Building Research Establishment.

Stone decay in the architectural environment / edited by Alice V. Turkington.