Traité des moyens de rendre les rivières navigables [...]. Où il est aussi parlé des moyens de retirer les bâtimens coulez à fond, & d'en sauver les marchandises [...].

8vo: [8]-102-[2] pp.; 12 pl.

18th-c. glazed calf, sgilt ruled spine with raised bands, red spr. edges (spine, edges and corners rubbed, joints parly split).

Second edition (1st: 1693) of this work on hydraulic engineering, a translation of "Arte di restituire a Roma la tralasciata navigatione del suo Tevere" (Rome, 1685), according to the preface of "Nuovi ritrovamenti" by the engineer Cornelis Meijer. Deals with obstacles to navigation on rivers (width of streambed, destruction of the riverbank, rocks, jetties, floodings, etc.) and the way to face them by constructing dikes, locks, a machine to clean the river bottom, etc., illustrated on 12 plates, some fold. The last part of the work is about refloating.
Ref. Barbier IV:784.
Prov. Elliott family, from Scotland (armorial bookpl.).