Note on Water Required and Available for the Sudan Gezira Scheme; Computations Relating to the Note on the Water Supply Required and Available for the Sudan-Gezira Scheme

A very scarce and fascinating insight into the plans and calculations for one of the world's largest irrigation projects, The Gezira Scheme. Two very scarce first edition publications on the availability and requirements of water for the Gezira irrigation scheme, composed by Sir Murdoch MacDonald, who was responsible for the first stages of this scheme and went on to become adviser to Egypt's Minister of Public Works.Accompanying the text volume discussing water needs is a volume of calculations, tables and charts concerning water supply, illustrated with nine plates, three of which are folding.The Gezira Scheme, one of the world's largest irrigation projects, was started by the British while the area was governed as a part of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. It involves water from the Blue Nile being distributed through canals and ditches to tenant farms lying between the Blue and White Nile rivers, for the purposes of growing cotton.This title was published as a part of a series of reports commissioned by the 'Ministry of Public Works, Egypt', and issued during the British Occupation period. The Egyptian Department of Public works was established in the early 19th century and concentrated on works relating to irrigation and hydraulic engineering. It became the most respected engineering entity and regarded as a fantastic school for civil engineers in modern Egypt.From the library of Frederic Newhouse (1883-1969), sometime inspector-general of Egyptian irrigation in the Sudan, and with his contemporary inscription to the head of the front wraps, dated 1919. In the publisher's original quarter cloth bindings, with paper wraps. Contemporary inscription to head of front wrap. Small tear to tail of 'Computations' front wrap. Spots to 'Computations' rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Spotting to title page, but pages otherwise clean. Good.…