LATOUR, Esprit. GASSEND, Auguste. - Lot 144

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LATOUR, Esprit. GASSEND, Auguste. - Lot 144
LATOUR, Esprit. GASSEND, Auguste. Travaux hydrauliques maritimes. Ouvrage descriptif pour l'installation des chantiers [...] Installation used for the construction of the large offshore jetty in Bassin Napoléon (Port de Marseille). Plates. Marseille, (F. Canquoin), 1861. Oblong folio (41 x 51 cm), LV plates. Contemporary fawn half-chagrin, spine ribbed, gilt authors and title, cover preserved (edges and corners slightly rubbed, but a fine, fresh copy). Precious for 19th-century French technical and industrial history. Hardly ever found in albums, nor complete. Usually only the text with the date 1860 (sometimes 1861 at the same time), printed by Barile. No reference to the album currently in the CCFr. Includes 55 large chromolithographic plates after Cappeau by Canquoin, illustrating the stages of the maritime hydraulic works carried out for the construction of the large pier in the port of Marseille, executed by Dussaud frères. Includes the quarries on the Frioul islands, the Marseilles roadstead, the quarrying of natural blocks and the production of artificial blocks. PORT CONSTRUCTION SITES.
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