[Public works/hydraulic engineering] Notice sur les Travaux Publics en Hollande

M. Ph. Croizette Desnoyers. Paris, Dunod, Libraire des Corps des Ponts et Chaussées et des Mines, 1874. 2 parts in one vol., text and plates. Large 4to, hard cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title, blindstamped boards, title vignette on front board, 207 pp. and 28 folding steel engravings.

Large folding plates with locks, bridges and other examples of hydraulic engineering related to the navigation of Amsterdam and Rotterdam up to the North Sea as well as several inland examples. Text with occ. sm. brown stains, engravings complete and good.