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Quelques Objections Contre Un Changement proposé Au tracé Du Canal Saint-Martin.

Quelques Objections Contre Un Changement proposé Au tracé Du Canal Saint-Martin.

by (URBANISME, HISTORY OF PARIS) GIRARD, (PIERRE SIMON).

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1819. Paris, de l'Imprimerie de Mme Ve Courcier, rue du Jardinet, no. 12, 1819. 4pp. Unbound as issued. On 29 floréal an X (19 mai 1802) Napoleon Bonaparte, 'Premier Consul' at that time, passed a law to have the Canal Saint- Martin constructed, together with the Canal Saint-Denis and the Canal de l'Ourcq. The project of the engineer Pierre Simon Girard (1765-1836) was chosen to resolve the problems of drinking water navigation in Paris. In 1790 he had won a price of the Academy for a work on the construction of canals and in 1798 he published the first work on the resistance of materials. By creating these canals there was the additional that a shortcut of the Seine was created. So ships could avoid the difficult center of Paris and ports could be built. Building of the canal Saint-Martin started in 1805 at both ends but the canal was only finished in 1825. Numerous difficulties related to constructing a canal in such an urban area had to be surmounted. The present… Read More
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La Reliure Moderne Artistique et Fantaisiste.
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La Reliure Moderne Artistique et Fantaisiste.

by UZANNE, OCTAVE.

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1887. Paris, Ed. Rouveyre, 1887. viii,263,(3)pp. With 72 plates. 3/4 morocco binding, marbled boards. Corners a bit bumped and spine a bit fade. Light stain on halftitle and title. All edges gilt. Number 773 of 1500 copies. With the bookplate of John Roland Abbey. And from the Frieling Collection. A good copy. A very useful reference work on French bookbindings. [c.f. Schm.-K. 5191].
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