Item #47818 An Account of the Stopping of Daggenham Breach: With the accidents that have attended the same from the first undertaking. Containing also proper rules for performing any the like work; and proposals for rendering the Ports of Dover and Dublin (which the Author has been employ'd to survey) commodious for entertaining large ships. To which is prefix'd a Plan of the Levels which were over-flow'd by the Breach. John Perry.
An Account of the Stopping of Daggenham Breach: With the accidents that have attended the same from the first undertaking. Containing also proper rules for performing any the like work; and proposals for rendering the Ports of Dover and Dublin (which the Author has been employ'd to survey) commodious for entertaining large ships. To which is prefix'd a Plan of the Levels which were over-flow'd by the Breach.
An Account of the Stopping of Daggenham Breach: With the accidents that have attended the same from the first undertaking. Containing also proper rules for performing any the like work; and proposals for rendering the Ports of Dover and Dublin (which the Author has been employ'd to survey) commodious for entertaining large ships. To which is prefix'd a Plan of the Levels which were over-flow'd by the Breach.
An Account of the Stopping of Daggenham Breach: With the accidents that have attended the same from the first undertaking. Containing also proper rules for performing any the like work; and proposals for rendering the Ports of Dover and Dublin (which the Author has been employ'd to survey) commodious for entertaining large ships. To which is prefix'd a Plan of the Levels which were over-flow'd by the Breach.

An Account of the Stopping of Daggenham Breach: With the accidents that have attended the same from the first undertaking. Containing also proper rules for performing any the like work; and proposals for rendering the Ports of Dover and Dublin (which the Author has been employ'd to survey) commodious for entertaining large ships. To which is prefix'd a Plan of the Levels which were over-flow'd by the Breach.

London: Benj. Tooke, 1721. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #47818

8vo. Pp. 131 [1], folding map. Map in excellent condition, early hand-written note to show a breach that "happened 120 years ago." Map clean and bright, with Macclesfield coat of arms blindstamp to the map in a few places, the title-page and the first leaf of text. Macclesfield library bookplate to the front pastedown (south library). Nice clean copy in contemporary leather boards and a later reback with gilt stamped compartments and a gilt titled red leather label. A few little ink corrections to the text, clean throughout and in good order.

Price (CAD): $650.00

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