Frederick Newhouse (2 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Ed. 205 x 140mm. pp. 67. An examination of the early development of irrigation in Egypt and the Sudan, The Tigris and Euphrates Basin, India and Pakistan. Black and white illustrations and maps. Bound in original blue wraps with black lettering to spine and front cover. Some light foxing to pages and edges.Wraps show some yellowing and a little wear to bottom of spine. No ownership inscription.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A very scarce discussion of water run-off in early twentieth century Egypt under British administration. The author's own copy. From the library of the author of this work, Frederic Newhouse. Newhouse was a sometime inspector-general of Egyptian irrigation in the Sudan, with his contemporary notation appearing to the head of the front wrap.Illustrated with three figures and maps, within this work Newhouse discusses the reclamation of the waste lands of lower Egypt, and the questions of drainage and irrigation. Providing calculations, Newhouse provides figures of the 'actual run-off in cubic metres per feddan per day form perennially cultivated land'.This work also contains an excerpt of proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Vol. cxcvi, Session 1913-1914, Part I. A very scarce publication from the Institution, the first professional engineering body formed in the early nineteenth century. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally, smart, with author's notation to head of front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good. book.