Explication des moyens proposes pour faciliter la construction du canal de Provence; et des diverses manieres de s'interesser dan cette enterprise

by Floquet, Jean-André

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First edition

Aix: chez la veuve de Joseph David and Esprit David, 1743. First edition, the only printing of this description and justification of and financing plan for a canal from the Rhone to Aix and from Aix to Marseille, 8vo, pp. iv , 94; contemporary vellum-backed blue marbled boards, light wear to extremities, worming to upper corner of nearly all pages, crudely repaired but rarely affecting the text. This canal in France occupied the author's efforts through 1750

• Binding: Leather

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