Canal de Picardie: manuscript, 1731.

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Canal de Picardie: manuscript, 1731.

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The manuscript describes the costs and specifications of work to be done to construct the Canal de Picardie in the province of Picardy in northern France along the Somme River. It was prepared by Charbisse and Prefontene, egineers to King XV. It includes details regarding: geology of the area; locks and bridges to be built; access roads; canal embankments; construction materials needed; removal of houses; aqueducts to be built; and finally, the total cost of the project.

1 bound item, 32 cm., 256 pages.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774

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A lawyer in New Orleans, Louisiana, Edward Alexander Parsons (1878-1962) married and had at least one daughter. A bibliophile, he briefly worked for the New Orleans Public Library in the 1930s and over a period of sixty years built a private collection, known as the Bibliotheca Parsoniana, with over 8,000 manuscripts and 40,000 publications on the American South, which was acquired by the University of Texas at Austin in 1958. An avid researcher and amateur historian, Parsons publis...