engineering

Two masterpieces of Dutch hydraulic engineering
1. BA R NA R D, John Gross. Report on
the North Sea Canal of Holland; and on the
improvement of navigation from Rotterdam
to the sea; to the chief of engineers, United
States army. (Professional papers of the corps
of engineers, U.S. army. No. 22).
Washington D.C., U.S. Government Printing
Office, 1872. 4º. With 12 plates numbered as
11 (all but 1 folding and 1 printed in red and
black). Further with a half title, title-page,
preface, and list of plates. Contemporary
brown half morocco, reddish-brown cloth
sides gold-blocked with the title and the coat
of arms of the United States Army Corps of
Engineers. € 875
A detailed and neatly arranged overview of the
construction works of the Nieuwe Waterweg and
the North Sea Canal, compiled by Brevet Major
General John Gross Barnard. Barnard´s report, no.
22 in the series of professional papers published by
the U.S. army corps of engineers, clearly presents
all technical details of these two major shipping
canals, whose construction was then nearing
completion.
With some tears in the plates (serious in plate 1)
but otherwise in good condition. A thorough and
well-illustrated report on two significant examples
of 19th-century Dutch hydraulic engineering.