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• Architecture hydraulique, ou l'Art de conduire, d'elever, et de menager les eaux pour les differens besoins de la vie ... (C.A. Jombert, 1737), by M. Belidor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della natura de' fiumi. (Per gl' eredi d'A. Pisarri, 1697), by Domenico Guglielmini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della riflessione de' corpi dall' acqua, e Della diminuzione della mole de'sassi ne' torrenti, e ne' flumi; dissertazioni due. (Nella R. D. stamperia Monti, 1753), by Jacopo Belgrado (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoria sulla dispensa delle acque, e diverse altre operette del cavaliere Vincenzo Brunacci ... Colla biografia del medesimo scritta dall' ingegnere Gio. Alessandro Majocchi ... Con rami. (G. Silvestri, 1827), by Vincenzo Brunacci and Giovanni Alessandro Majocchi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johann Georg Büsch ... Uebersicht des gesamten wasserbaues ... (B. G. Hoffmann, 1796), by Johann Georg Büsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité des moyens de rendre les rivieres navigables. Avec plusieurs desseins de jettées, ponts à rouleaux & rampans, ecluses, soutiens, digues, coffres pour bâtir sous l'eau, & autres machines dont on se sert en Hollande & ailleurs, pour remédier aux obstacles qui s'opposent à la navigation des rivieres, & pour approfondir les canaux & curer les ports. Où il est aussi parlé des moyens de retirer les bâtimens coulez à fond, & d'en sauver les marchandises. Ouvrage tres-utile à tous les ingénieurs, & à tous ceux qui se mêlent de bâtimens & de machines. (Chez Pierre Mortier, 1696), by Bouillet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorie idrostatico-storiche delle operazioni eseguite nell' in alveazione del Reno di Bologna, e degli altri minori torrenti per la linea di primaro al mare dall' anno 1765. fino al 1772. (La Societa' tipografica, 1773), by Antonio Lecchi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Istituzioni di architettura statica e idraulica (Presso Caro Batelli, 1840), by Nicola Cavalieri San-Bertolo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité des moyens de rendre les rivieres navigables : avec plusieurs desseins de jettées, ponts à rouleaux & rampans, ecluses, soûtiens, digues, coffres pour bâtir sous l'eau, & autres machines dont on se sert en Hollande & ailleurs, pour remedier aux obstacles qui s'opposent à la navigation des rivieres, & pour approfondir les canaux & curer les ports ... (Chez Estienne Michallet ..., 1693), by Bouillet (Engineer), Cornelis Meijer, and Estienne Michallet (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of the stopping of Daggenham Breach : With the accidents that have attended the same from the first undertaking ; containing also proper rules for performing any the like work: and proposals for rendering the ports of Dover and Dublin (which the author has been employ'd to survey) commodious for entertaining large ships ; To which is prefix'd, a plan of the levels which were over-flow'd by the breach (London : Printed for Benj. Tooke, MDCCXXI., 1721), by John Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nòuvelle architecture hydraulique, contenant l'art d'élever l'eau au moyen de différentes machines, de construire dans ce fluide, de le diriger, et généralement de l'appliquer, de diverses manieres, aux besoins de la société. (Firmin Didot, 1790), by R. Prony (page images at HathiTrust)
• Istruzioni pratiche per l'ingegnero civile, o sia perito agrimensore, e perito d'acque (Apresso Pietro Savioni ..., 1782), by Giuseppe Antonio Alberti and Pietro Savioni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Architectura hydraulica, oder, Die Kunst das Gewässer zu denen verscheidenlichen Notwendigkeiten des menschlichen Lebens zu leiten, in die Höhe zu bringen, und vor Theilhaftig anzuwenden (Eberhard Kletts, 1764), by M. Belidor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lehrbuch der Hydraulik (Berlin : Bei Gottlieb August Lange, 1797., 1797), by J. W. A. Kosmann, Bernhard Friedrich Mönnich, and Johann Albert Eytelwein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neue Architektura hydraulika (Andreäischen Buchhandlung, 1794), by R. Prony and Karl Christian von Langsdorf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Architecture hydraulique; ou, L'art de conduire, d'élever, et de ménager les eaux pour les différents besoins de la vie. (F. Didot, 1819), by M. Belidor and M. Navier (page images at HathiTrust)
• La nuova architettura civile, e militare di Alessandro Capra architetto, e cittadino cremonese : divisa in due tomi : dedicata all' illustriss.mo sig.r, sig.r padr.e colendiss.mo il sig. dottor Francesco Arisi conservadore degli ordini della nobilissima città di Cremona : tomo primo[-secondo]. (Nella stamperia di Pietro Ricchini :, 1717), by Alessandro Capra, Giuseppe Forbici, Pietro Ricchini, and Francesco Arisi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tre discorsi sopra il modo d'alzar acque da' luoghi bassi (Appresso Seth Viotti, 1567), by Giuseppe Ceredi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nova et amaenior de admirando fontivm genio (ex abditas natvrae clavstris, in orbis lvcem emanante) philosophia (Apud Alphonsum & Io. Baptistam de Marestis, 1659), by Jacobus Joannes Wenceslaus Dobrzensky, Giovanni Battista de Maresti, Alfonso de Maresti, and Jean Sauvé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Istituzioni di architettura statica e idraulica (Presso i Fratelli Negretti, 1831), by Nicola Cavalieri San-Bertolo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Istituzioni di architettura idraulica : dedotte dalle scienze di ragione, e di natura (Nella stamperia Raimondiana, 1780), by Niccolo Carletti (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on rivers and torrents with the method of regulating their course and channels : to which is added an essay on navigable canals (Virtue, 1868), by Paolo Frisi and John Garstin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apologia per la passonata fatta sopra il Tevere (Per il Bernarbò, 1698), by Francesco Maria Onorati, Bernarbò, and Cornelis Meijer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouvelle invention de lever l'eau plus hault que sa source ([s.n.], 1644), by Isaac de Caus and Solomon de Caus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anleitunng zu denen Brünnenkunsten (Augsburg, 1765), by Caspar Walter and Lukas Voch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouvelle invention de lever l'eau plus haut que sa source : avec quelques machines mouvantes par le moyen de l'eau, et un discours de la conduit d'icelle. Avec beaucoup de figures en taille douce (Imprimè pour Thomas Davies ..., 1657), by Isaac de Caus and Salomon de Caus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouvelle invention de lever l'eau. English (London : Printed by Joseph Moxon ..., 1659), by Isaac de Caus, Salomon de Caus, and John Leak (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Mr. William Wheelers case from his own relation. ([London : s.n., 1645]), by Henry Parker and William Wheeler (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Dictionnaire d'architecture civile et hydraulique, et des arts qui en dépendent: comme la maçonnerie, la charpenterie, la menuiserie, la serrurerie, le jardinage etc. (Jombert, 1755), by Augustin-Charles d' Aviler (page images at HathiTrust)

• The vale mans table ([London : s.n., 1583]), by Robert Payne (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The designe for the perfect draining of the great level of the fens, called Bedford level, lying in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingtonshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire and the isle of Ely as it was delivered to the honourable corporation for the draining of the said great level the 4th of June, 1664 : as also several objections answered since the delivery of the said designe now in agitation : and as for the new works intended in this designe appears in the annexed map : and the charge of the whole calculated / by Collonel William Dodson. (London : Printed by R. Wood, and are to be sold by Henry Twiford ... and by Rich. Marriot ..., 1665), by William Dodson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of the mannor of Epworth in the isle of Axholm, in the county of Lincoln, concerned in the bill for an act for setting the level of Hatfield Chase humbly presented to the right Honorable the Commons of England in Parliament assembled. ([London : s.n., 1695?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of the owners of more than sixty thousand acres of rich and valuablelands, bordering upon the fenns, called, Bedford-Level: ([London : s.n., 1697]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Case of the town and port of King's-Lynn in Norfolk, as to their navigation. ([London : s.n., 1696]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of some of the adventurers and participants with the Right Honourable William Earl of Bedford in the draining of the great level of the fens stated in reference to a bill depending in Parliament for settlement of the said draining. ([London? : s.n., 1664]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A commission impowering the persons therein named, to hear and determine severall matters and things concerning the work of dreyning the great levell of the fenns. ([London : s.n., 1653]), by England and Wales. Council of State (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of Sir Robert Killigrew, Thomas Wyndham, William Killigrew, Henry Heron, and Edward Heron, drainers and participants of Lindsey Levell, in Lincolnshire, claiming under the late Earl of Lindsey. ([London : s.n., 1665?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Reasons, humbly offered to the consideration of the Parliament; against the passing a bill, intituled An act for incorporating the undertakers for the dreining Deeping Fen ([London? : s.n., 1685]), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Reasons humbly offered, why the bill brought in by the adventurers in the fenns should not passe before the adjournment of the Parliament ([London? : s.n., 1660]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A paper delivered and dispersed by Sir William Killigrew. ([London : s.n., 1651]), by William Killigrew (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A short answer to a paper, intituled, Reasons humbly offered to the Honourable the Commons assembled in Parliament, against a bill brought in by Sir Robert Killigrew and others, undertakers and participants for the pretended dreining of Lindsey-Level in Lincolnshire ([London : s.n., 1698]), by William Killigrew (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The rioters in Lindsey levell and their abettors, would have it thought that our ancestors were such ignorant men, as to make all the lawes and statutes by which the Commission of Sewers is impowered to remove the surrounder of waters ... ([London : s.n., 1655]), by William Killigrew (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A relation of the proceedings & causes of complaint, between the undertakers with the Earle of Lindsey, in the levell of Fenns in Lincolnshire betwixt Bourne and Kine Eae, and the owners and commoners there. ([London? : s.n., 1650]), by Robert Bertie Lindsey (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A breviate of the cause depending, and proofes made before the committee of the late Parliament for the Fens by the inhabitants between Borne and Kime Eae, in the county of Lincolne, being lords, owners and commoners of, and in the several Fens, where in Sir William Killigrew, &c. pretends a title as sharers with the late Earle of Lindsey. ([London? : s.n., 1655?]), by William Killigrew and John Brooke (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The late Earl of Lindsey his title by which himself, and his participants, do claim 24000. acres of land in the fennes in Lincoln-shire; and concerning which a bill hath pass'd the House of Lords, and is now with the Commons, impowring Sir Henry Heron and Sir William Killigrew to perfect their undertakings; the which, if it hath not been according to the particulars contained in this paper, the countenance of any member of this House is in no sort desired hereunto. ([London : s.n., 1661]), by William Killigrew and Henry Heron (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To shew the countreys consent for the drayning of Lindesy Levell. ([London? : s.n., 1671]), by William Killigrew and Henry Heron (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Anweisung zum Faschinenbaume (In Kommission bei Friedrich Maurer, 1800), by Johann Albert Eytelwein, Ferdinand Sprögel, and Ferdinand Frick (page images at HathiTrust)

• Traité des moyens de rendre les rivieres navigables : avec plusieurs desseins de jettées, ponts à rouleaux & rampans, ecluses, soûtiens, digues, coffres pour bâtir sous l'eau, & autres machines dont on se sert en Hollande & ailleurs, pour remedier aux obstacles qui s'opposent à la navigation des rivieres, & pour approfondir les canaux & curer les ports ... (Chez Estienne Michallet ..., 1693), by Bouillet (Engineer), Cornelis Meijer, and Estienne Michallet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Istituzioni di architettura idraulica : dedotte dalle scienze di ragione, e di natura (Nella stamperia Raimondiana, 1780), by Niccolo Carletti (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anfang von einer neuen Methode unter Wasser zu bauen ohne Fangedämme zu machen und das Wasser auszupumpen von einer Tiefe bis 30 Fuss unter Wasser bey Ebbe und Fluth : eine von einer Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften geprüfte und völlig genehmigte Erfindung (Bey Friedrich Wilhelm Birnstiel, 1765), by Carl Friedrich Richter, Johann David Schleuen, and Friederich Wilhelm Birnstiel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tai xi shui fa : [6 juan] (Sao ye shan fang, in the 19th century), by Sabatino De Ursis, Shichen Xi, and Guangqi Xu (page images at HathiTrust)

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