Engineering.- Thames.- Perry (Capt. John) An Account of the Stopping of Daggenham Breach: with the Accidents that have attended the same from the first undertaking... To which is prefix'd, a plan of the Levels which were overflow'd by the Breach, first edition, folding engraved map by H.Moll, woodcut initials and decorations, occasional ink marginalia, bookplates to front pastedown and front endpaper, one of Henry B. H. Beaufoy, additional engraved plate of Dagenham Beach loosely inserted, front endpaper with inscriptions, torn and laid down, map with a few marginal tears and paper repairs, scattered spotting and foxing, some browning and a few stains, contemporary calf, rebacked, rather rubbed and bumped, [ESTC N16219; Goldsmiths 6058], 8vo, Benj. Tooke, 1721.
⁂ An account of the work to repair breaches in the Thames embankment undertaken by the hydraulic engineer John Perry.
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