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Includes: [Lesseps, Ferdinand de]. Isthme de Suez. Lettre Au Times. 49 pp. No wrappers. 1855. * Rapport de M.J. Hawkshaw… sur les Travaux du Canal de Suez… 76 pp. 1863. * Response de Jacques Bonhomme Actionnaire Francais du Canal de Suez. 32 pp. 1863. * Lesseps. L’Isthme de Suez. 51 pp, 1864. * Lesseps. Entretiens sur le Canal de Suez. 95 pp. (lacks front wrapper). 1864. * Banquet e Canal de Suez… Discour de S.A.I. Le Prince Napoleion, de M. Dupin et de M. De Lesseps. 54 pp. 1864. * Lesseps. Entretien sur le Canal de Suez. 24 pp. 1864. * Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez… Rapport de M… Lesseps… Rapport de M. Bellot… 96 pp. 3 folding tables. 1864. * Conference de M. Ferdinand de Lesseps a Lyon. 86 pp. 1865. * Actes Constitutifs de la Compagnie Universelle du Canal de Suez. 147, [1] pp. 1866. * Denison, Col. Sir William. The Suez Canal. 37 pp. Folding map & folding table. 1867. * Conference de M. Ferdinand de Lesseps a Nantes sur le Canal Maritime de Suez. 42 pp.1867. * Lesseps. Le Percement de l’Isthme de Suez. 50, [2] pp. Modern plain wrappers over the original ones. 1868. * Proces-Verbal des Seances Tenues par la Commission de Navigation. 38 pp. 1868. * Cadiat, V. De la Situation des Travaux du Canal de Suez en Fevrier 1868. 43 pp. 1868, * Report de la Commission Chargee d’Examiner les Conditions de l’Exploitation du Canal a M. Ferdinand de Lesseps… 45 pp. 1868. * Lesseps. Histoire du Canal de Suez. 46, [1] pp. 1870. * Rapport de M. Ferdinand de Lesseps… 14 pp. 1871, * Plaidoirie de Me. Allou pour La Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez. Plain wrappers over the original printed ones. 1873. * Suez Canal Traffic. Bazin & Co’s Return of Traffic for the Year 1873. Unpaginated. Cloth wrappers printed in gilt. 1874. Together, 20 booklets. Original printed wrappers except as noted.

Significant collection of rare booklets on the Suez Canal, which was largely the brainchild of Ferdinand de Lesseps. The earliest of the booklets, Lesseps’ letter to the London Times in 1855, dates from the beginning of his efforts. Actual ground was broken on 1859, and construction lasted for ten years. Fifteen of the booklets date from the period of construction, as engineering, political, social and economic challenges were successfully, if not easily, dealt with.