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LE PÈRE (JACQUES-MARIE)]
Mémoire sur la communication de la mer des Indes à la Méditerranée, par la mer Rouge et l'isthme de Soueys; Égypte. Atlas annexé au mémoire sur la communication de la mer Rouge à la Méditerranée. 1802, 2 vol., [n.p., 1802; atlas: Paris, par les soins de J.J. Marcel, directeur général de l'Imprimerie impériale, 1815]

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£8,000 - £12,000

LE PÈRE (JACQUES-MARIE)]

Mémoire sur la communication de la mer des Indes à la Méditerranée, par la mer Rouge et l'isthme de Soueys; Égypte. Atlas annexé au mémoire sur la communication de la mer Rouge à la Méditerranée. 1802, 2 vol., atlas with 5 folding or double-page engraved maps, plans and diagrams, watermarked "Egypte ancienne et moderne", one plate with several tears repaired without loss, light dampstain to a few margins, UNIFORM CONTEMPORARY FRENCH RED STRAIGHT-GRAINED MOROCCO GILT, sides with roll-tooled gilt borders incorporating classical urns, torch-bearing female classical figures and foliate sprays within double gilt fillets, enclosing interlocking floral sprays and large central crescent motif surmounted by a laurel crown flanked by an oak and olive branch, crescent motifs at corners, spine gilt, crescent motifs in compartments, g.e., blue watered silk endpapers, upper cover of text volume detached, folio (text 407 x 208mm.; atlas 510 x 355mm.), [n.p., 1802; atlas: Paris, par les soins de J.J. Marcel, directeur général de l'Imprimerie impériale, 1815]

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MAGNIFICENTLY BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH RED MOROCCO. In 1798 Jacques-Marie Le Père, chief engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées, was commissioned by Napoleon to investigate the possibility of building a canal between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. His findings were presented to Napoleon in 1803 and, whilst mistakenly concluding that the sea level between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean were different, the report was an important basis for Ferdinand de Lesseps' successful plans for the Suez Canal.

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