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CATALOGUE DE LIVRES RARES FINE BOOKS - Camille Sourget

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Very rare first edition of this precious work for the history of Mexico City.<br />

Written 8 years after the terrible flood that devastated Mexico City in 1629, « this very rare book contains<br />

an official account of the celebrated Desaque, or canal of Gueguetoca, called, by Humboldt, Huehuetoca,<br />

which was constructed to carry off the superabundant waters of the lake of Mexico. Humboldt gives a full<br />

account of this stupendous undertaking. Rich”. (Sabin).<br />

The fourth part of the book was printed 3 months after the publication of the work and is often missing .<br />

A precious complete copy, with the very rare fourth part, preserved in its contemporary binding.<br />

Among French institutions, only the B.n.F. has a copy. OCLC only records 2 complete copies.

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