LANGUEDOC (CANAL DE)]. ANDRÉOSSY (General Antoine François). History of the
Canal du Midi, or Canal de Languedoc, considered in terms of invention, art, administration, irrigation, and in its relations with the inland ponds which surround it [...]. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Crapelet, an XIII - 1804.
One volume in-4° paperback (of 2), mute cover.
One portrait and 30 folded engraved plates. The author, great-grandson of the engineer-geographer
François Andréossy, contests Riquet's authorship of the canal in favour of his grandfather.
From the library of Pierre Gazel, with handwritten ex-libris on the title page.
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