MAHAN, D.H.

An elementary Course of Civil Engineering, for the use of the Cadets of the United States' Military Academy. Second Edition, revised and Corrected.

New York, Wiley and Putban, 1838. Orig. full cloth. Gilt spine, blindstamed covers. Light wear to spine ends. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. XXVI,308 pp., 14 folded engraved plates. First 5 and last 2 leaves brownspotted. Some brownspots to plates.

By this importent work Mahan established the structural teory of civil engineering in the United States based on the theories of navier and Moseley.

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