Domestic Sanitary Drainage and Plumbing: Lectures on Practical Sanitation Delivered to Plumbers, Engineers, and Others in the Central Technical Institution, South Kensington, London, Under the Auspices of the City and Guilds of London Institute for the Advancement of Technical EducationK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1890 - 437 pages |
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