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Leather. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). A very scarce examination of Sir William P. Andrew's memoir detailing his proposal for the construction of a railway along the Euphrates to the port at Basra, as an alternative route to India. William Patrick Andrew was the director of the East Indian Railway and founder of the Scinde, Punjab and Delhi Railway. He was best known for promoting railway and telegraphic communication with India and for his numerous publications on on Indian railways, that allowed his capacities for engineering to become known. The largest scheme of Sir William Andrew's life was the 'Euphrates Valley Railway'; first proposed in the 1830s as a more direct route between Britain and India. Whilst the idea was supported with funding by Sultan Abdulmecid I in 1857 the British government refused to fund the scheme, leading it to be dropped with the completion of the Suez Canal in 1869. This fascinating work, written anonymously by two authors, provides a comprehensive study of the written memoir by Andrew that detailed his plans for the railway through the Euphrates Valley between the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf. A second edition copy. In a full crushed morocco binding, with gilt title to spine. Externally rubbed with heavy fading to spine and upper extremity of front board. Internally firmly bound. Pages age toned but very bright and clean. Slight offsetting to extremities of endpapers. Very Good. book.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1888 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 481 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 481.