LESSEPS, FERDINAND. - "PIERCING THE ISTHMUS OF SUEZ" (PMM 339).

Percement de L'Isthme de Suez. (1.-) Cinquieme Série. 5 vols. (1. Exposé et Documents officiels. - 2. Exposé et Documents. - 3. Rapport et projet de la Commission internationale. - 4. Meetings Anglais en Faveur du Canal de Suez. - 5. Rapport de la Commission Hollandaise).

Paris, Henri Plon, 1855-60. Bound in 5 uniform contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spines. Stamp on title-pages. Wear to top of spine on volume four. (4),280,(2);(6),332;XI,376;(8),320;(4),423,(8) pp., 1 table, 2 large folded lithographed maps (in vol. one), 4 coloured maps, 2 large folded chromolithographed profiles (Profil en long du Canal Maritime de Suez... 1859). Some faint scattered brownspots.

First edition. In the first volume - 'The Piercing of the Isthmus of Suez' - he set out the whole case for the canal and his proposed method of building it... Construction was begun in 1859 and completed 10 years later."(PMM, 339).

Order-nr.: 52527