Rousseurs 17 x 24
Reference : 5201
Librairie Seigneur
Martine Seigneur
Conforme aux usages de la profession.
"LESSEPS, FERDINAND. - ""PIERCING THE ISTHMUS OF SUEZ"" (PMM 339).
Reference : 52527
(1855)
Paris, Henri Plon, 1855-60. Bound in 5 uniform contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamp on title-pages. Wear to top of spine on volume four. (4),280,(2)"(6),332XI,376(8),320"(4),423,(8) pp., 1 table, 2 large folded lithographed maps (in vol. one), 4 coloured maps, 2 large folded chromolithographed profiles (Profil en long du Canal Maritime de Suez... 1859). Some faint scattered brownspots.
First edition. In the first volume - 'The Piercing of the Isthmus of Suez' - he set out the whole case for the canal and his proposed method of building it... Construction was begun in 1859 and completed 10 years later.""(PMM, 339).
P., Aux Bureaux de l'Isthme de Suez et chez Henri Plon, 1857, gr. in-8°, 320 pp, broché, dos fendu recollé, sinon bon état
AUX BUREAUX DES ANNALES INDUSTRIELLES. NON DATE. In-Folio. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Déchirures. 5 planches avec gravures en noir et blanc. Pliures et légères déchirures au centre des planches.. . . . Classification Dewey : 700-LES ARTS
Planches 14, 22, 29, 95, 132. Classification Dewey : 700-LES ARTS