DRU (Léon): French-Russian civil society... - Lot 82 - Richard Maison de ventes

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DRU (Léon): French-Russian civil society... - Lot 82 - Richard Maison de ventes
DRU (Léon): French-Russian civil society of studies of the Canal of the Don to the Volga. Project of canal between the Don and the Volga. Memorandum in support of the project. Paris, Georges Chamerot, 1886. One volume. 24,5 by 33 cm. (6)-162 pages, and 8 hors-texte plates, including 4 folding maps in color (complete). Half tobacco leather of the period, spine with 5 nerves, flowered caissons, marbled edges. Binding signed V. Krafft. Very slight wear of a corner, otherwise perfect condition of the binding. A cut without missing in the margin of a map, rare freckles on the maps. Otherwise perfect condition inside. Numerous illustrations (photos or diagrams) in the text. Copy of M. Cauvet, director of the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, with an autograph letter from the author on the first endpapers. Very rare work, probably printed in small numbers, for the French and Russian designers of the project. Only one copy in the CCF (Grenoble). This is the report of the study mission entrusted by Alexander III to resume the attempts of Peter the Great to pierce the canal between Don and Volga, and to define the conditions of its realization. Finally started in 1936, finished in 1952, this canal will be built thanks to the Gulag deportees and German prisoners
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