LESSEPS, Ferdinand de The Suez Canal: Letters and Documents Descriptive of Its Rise and Progress in 1854-1856 … Translated by N. D'Anvers. London, Henry S. King and Co., 1876.
8vo. Original cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards ornamented in blind; pp. viii, 311; almost entirely uncut and unopened; only light spotitng at the beginning and end, otherwise very good.
First English edition of this exhaustive documentation of Lesseps' efforts with letters, studies, and written statements in order to pave the way to his life's achievement, an important step towards speedier globalization of the trade.
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