[Waterways] Rivierkundige verhandeling

Afgeleid uit Waterwigt- en Waterbeweegkundige Grondbeginselen, en toepasselyk gemaakt op de rivieren, Den Rhyn, de Maas, de Waal, de Merwede, en de Lek (...). Cornelis Velsen. Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion, 1749.

Small 8vo, leather, title on spine in gilt stamping, title with vignette, (16),256 pp., complete with 3 folding plates and 3 (often-lacking) folding maps, all in copper engraving. Plates with images of the study of rivers in general, profiles of several Dutch rivers and the shapes of dike breaches. Maps of the course of the rivers Rhine, Waal, Merwede and Lek (Dutch section), a map of part of the Meuse and Merwede rivers and a map of the Pannerdenschen en Spyksche district. Leather binding sl. drawn outward, else very good.