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Verlag: GALE SABIN AMERICANA, 2012
ISBN 10: 1275857035ISBN 13: 9781275857032
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New.
Verlag: Paris, Dupain-Triel, an VII (1799)., 1799
Anbieter: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Österreich
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8vo. XVI, 224 pp. With 1 folding map and 6 folding engravings of technical details. Modern boards, label with gilt lettering. First French edition of the only substantial work ever published by this pioneer of steam navigation, the "Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation". Translated by Récicourt and subtitled in full, "On y a joint des observations sur l'importance des communications navigables, une description détaillée de machines à la faveur desquelles on établirait ces communications à travers les pays les plus montueux, sans le secours des sas d'écluses et des ponts aqueducs; avec des dessins de constructions nouvelles d'aqueducs, et de ponts en bois et en fer". The plates, which are not identical to those in the English edition, show various lifting mechanisms, aqueducts, and bridges. The map is of a proposed canal in France. - Stubs of plates renewed. Old dampstain and traces of worming to lower margin of first few gatherings, professionally repaired. - Kress B. 3848. Not in Goldsmiths'. Sabin 26202. Howes F. 418.