1907 PANAMA CANAL Design, Finance, Engineering, Construction ILLUSTRATED First Edition "Retrieval at Panama"
RETRIEVAL AT PANAMA, by Lindon W. Bates.
NEW YORK: The New York Press, 1907. First edition.
Hardcovers, brown cloth covered boards, gilt titles to the front cover and spine, 6x9 inches, 554 pages. Illustrated with photographs, maps and drawings.
The book goes into great detail about the conception, route choices, financing, design, logistics, engineering and construction of the Panama Canal. Quite comprehensive.
VERY GOOD condition: The covers have a small hole at the front spine fold and some mild edge and corner tip wear, otherwise solid and attractive. Internally, there is foxing and offsetting mainly to the first and last few pages, otherwise just a bit here and there. A solid, nice, very presentable copy.
A scarce, first edition, original source work, published in 1907 during the actual construction of the Panama Canal.