Froidour (Louis de) Lettre a Monsieur Barillon Damoncourt...contenant la relation & la description des Travaux que se font en Languedoc, pour la communication de deux mers, woodcut initials, large folding map and 9 folding plates and plans only (of 10), ink manuscript list of plates by W.Jones to front free endpaper, eighteenth century English polished calf, with double gilt fillet, spine gilt, lacking label, joints cracked, 8vo, Toulouse, I.Dominique Camusat, 1672.
⁂ The first is a scarce work on the construction of the Canal du Midi connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, one of the most significant engineering feats of the 17th century.
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