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#[37955]London Edinburgh T. Nelson & Son ca. 1920. Coloured schoolplate mounted on board. Ca. 56 x 74 cm. The Royal Portfolio Geographical Series. - Waterstained. unknown
a75319Washington 1903. Hardcover. 4to. 89pp. tan buckram. Slight depository library marks no spine numbers and no pocket and no fore-edge stamps. VG light wear on corners. . hardcover
187034417Paris: Chez Erhard 1870. Minor foxing one fold repaired on verso two short tears along fold a few small chips and folds at the margins not affecting map. 1 folded leaf. 80 x 21 cm. Lithographic topographical map with route in color. Scale 1:200000. Scarce. OCLC locates single copy at BN France. [Chez Erhard] unknown
26444Dated by Manby to London 28 October 1868. Letter head of 66 Warwick Square Pimlico. See the three men’s entries in the Oxford DNB. 3pp 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition on aged and worn paper with tape from mount adhering to reverse of second leaf which is docketted by Manby. Signed ‘J Emerson Tennent’. Folded once. He explains that a friend of his ‘who is much interested about the Suez Canal is going to Egypt next week’ and that he has that day promised if he can ‘to obtain for him a copy of an Address which you once gave me but which I have put away so carefully that I cannot find it now delivered by J. M. McClean to the Institution in which he stated the cost already incurred and the large balance still required to complete the canal’. This is he believes ‘an un-satisfactory inference as to the power of raising so great a sum or rending it re-production’. In addition to the address he would like ‘any later documents shewing the state & prospects of the enterprise’. The Suez Canal took from 1859 to 1869 to build. Dated by Manby to London, 28 October 1868. Letter head of 66 Warwick Square, Pimlico. unknown
4406Printed heading Ministere des Travaux Publics manuscript address Cairo 20 May 1869. Minister of Public Works with a key role in the building of the Suez Canal. The document numbered No.39 top left corner is three pages folio sl. damaged but text clear and complete. He reminds his correspondent that "Son Altesse le Khedive" has appointed him "ministere des travaux publics" four months previously. He discusses "le reglement" by which decisions were to be made and the situation he finds himself in "ne sachant au juste sur quoi appuyer mes actes officielle je ne puis plus longtemps rester dans la vague qui empeche toute administration. He describes a complex administrative situation and concludes by asking his correspondent to "faire terminer cette affaire . . ." The handwriting is the same as that in the "Khalil Linant" letter in my inventory #4684 indicating that his son acted as his secretary. Note: The term "Khedive" was first used in 1867. The Suez Canal opened in 1869 and was perhaps one of the issues in this letter. [Printed heading] Ministere des Travaux Publics, [manuscript address] Cairo, 20 May 1869 unknown
1618Biblio235THE OPENING OF THE SUEZ CANAL. 13½ x 9½ inches. Albumen photograph mounted on paper annotated in pencil "Port Said 16 Nov 1869" in the lower left. Excellent condition. This photograph depicts the harbor and canal on the day of the opening of the Suez Canal the "greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century" Smith. "Clearly the canal's opening festivities placed Egypt in a new way on the European cultural map" Haddad "Digging to India: Modernity Imperialism and the Suez Canal". The opening of the Suez Canal immediately transformed world trade. Connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea allowed ships to sail between Europe and Asia without navigating around Africa. Trade between East and West grew at a record rate. "The construction and completion of the great Suez Canal . . . was one of the most remarkable engineering enterprises of the age one that will be an infinitely . . . important boon to commerce" W. H. Davenport Adams. "Men of the nineteenth century have pierced the Isthmus from sea to sea and these at least may stand in the shadow of the Pyramids and not be ashamed" Hamley.
