Paris, Ponthieu et Cie, 1827.
Mémoire sur l’établissement d’une navigation à grand tirant d’eau, entre Paris et la mer par la voie fluviale.
Rare first and only edition – illustrated with 2 large folding lithographs – of an ambitious early 19th-century project proposal for improving the navigability of the Seine between Paris and the port of Le Havre. Jacques-Joseph Frimot (1790-1866), hydraulic engineer of the Corps Royal des Ponts et Chaussées, here confronts..... More