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1909 Paris Souterrain
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Description
First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding
In the publisher's original red cloth binding with gilt.
First edition.
Illustrated with 87 additional plans, cuts and drawings, and over 500 in-text figures. Featuring 19 colour plate maps. Collated, complete.
A richly illustrated technical and historical study of the subterranean structures beneath Paris, covering geological formation, ancient quarries, the sewer network, underground railways, and the catacombs.
Émile Gerards was Sous-Inspecteur des Travaux de Paris and an Officier de l’Instruction Publique, involved in major civic engineering and geological works in the capital. With a preface by Paul Weiss, Chief Engineer of Mines and Inspector General of the Quarries of the Seine.
Condition
In the publisher's original red cloth binding with gilt. Externally, very smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Fading to spine and boards, more apparent to rear board. One or two minor spots of damp staining to rear board. Previous owner's ink inscription to front free endpaper. Upper corner of half title removed, likely to remove previous owner's inscription. Hinge at title page strained with binding materials partially exposed but firm. Internally, firmly bound. pages bright and clean with one or two spots and handling marks to first and last few leaves and fore edge.
Very Good
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