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Pointers for builders, contractors and wood and iron workers : containing rules for estimating ... tables bearing on the strength ... of building materials ... and list of members, with abstract of the principal rules and by-laws of the San Francisco builders' exchange

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1891.
Call number: 261484
Creator: Beau de Zart, Fred W(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 22 cm
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