Paul Bory - Les Grandes Entreprises Modernes

Nik's Bookstore item-no.: 1-A067
Publisher: Alfred Mame et Fils,  Tours  1890, second edition. Size: 30/21 cm.  397 pages. Book is written in french and has many illustrations (some of them are full-page) and cards in the text.

Book has a richly decorated carton linen binding  inside. Text block  has gilt edges. The boards are slightly rubbed, corners are little bumped and some of the pages inside have partially miniscule foxing.   Nevertheless a decorative french book from the end of the 19th. century. 

Content:
- Le Canal de Suez
- Le Port d'Anvers
- La Traversée des Alpes 
  I. Le tunnel du mont Cenis
  II. Le tunnel du Saint-Gothard
  III. L'Arlberg
- Les Aqueducs de Paris
- Le Cable Transatlantique
- De L'Atlantique au Pacifique
  I. Le Grand-Central Pacifique
  II. Le chemin de fer canadieu du Pacifique
- Les Ponts Métallique
  I. Le pont du Rhin
  II. Le pont de Brooklyn
- Le Cuirassé L'Inflexible
- La Passe de Hell-Gate
- Le Desséchement du Lac Fucin