Recherches sur les moyens de perfectionner les canaux de navigation, et sur les nombreux avantages de petits canaux..

by Robert Fulton

$950 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Paris: Dupain-Triel, ans VII, i.e. 1799 . First edition in French, 8vo, pp. xvi, 247, 1 ; 6 engraved folding plates, 1 engraved folding map; nice copy in contemporary full mottled calf, smooth gilt-decorated spine laid out in 6 compartments, red morocco label in 1. Translated from the English by François de Récicourt, this edition includes a letter to François de Neufchateau, French Minister of Finance, proposing a canal in the Calais

• Binding: Leather

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