The Irrigation Works of India
BUCKLEY, Robert Burton
Second [and Best] Edition.
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Published: E & FN Spon, 1905
Stock code: 21845
Price: £160.00
Folio, Second and Best Edition, with 5 very large folding coloured maps, 5 large folding plans, 40 photographic plates on 20, and164 illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, half-title very lightly spotted, some very light and occasional marginal spotting to text; original black cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in blind, gilt back, very neatly rebacked in cloth to style, small faded patch on upper board else a very good, bright, clean copy.
With 4pp of illustrated industrial advertisements at end. Greatly expanded and updated version of the first edition ['Irrigation Works in India and Egypt'] of 1893. All unsold copies were destroyed by fire at the publishers and it was consequently unavailable by December 1903. The original book also included descriptions of the Irrigation Works of Egypt; these are almost entirely omitted here since Works in India had increased substantially and required greater coverage. A very good, clean copy of the standard reference of the period. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.