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Rome, Propaganda Fide, 1883. In 2 ° maximum. 3 volumes (2 of text, 1 of tables). Frontispiece printed in red and black, text within frame, text in Italian and French arranged on 3 columns, atlas with 53 lithographic plates, mostly in color, 8 folded: a wide view of the lake on 3 sheets, maps, plants , projects, sections, machinery, and reproductions of 13 diplomas, another 2 out of 6 papers are bound in fine, light browning on the tables, sumptuous original plum-colored Moroccan bindings, plates framed by gold threads, golden studs embossed with the monogram on the corners AT (Alessandro Torlonia), on the upper plates title imprinted in gold, dentelles, gilded cuts, some peeling.
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Very rare out-of-commerce edition, in excellent copy, of the most detailed report on this colossal undertaking, written by the two engineers who were entrusted with the work. & Nbsp; The work is divided as follows: volume I: Around the formation of the basin of Lake Fucino (pp. 1-33), of the first inhabitants of Central Italy (pp. 35-122), history of the drying up of Lake Fucino and of construction of the emissary of Claudius, from Julius Caesar to the emperor Hadrian (pp. 123-257), up to the year 1852 (pp. 259-381); volume II: from 1852 to its completion (pp. 1-262), there follow the notes, the explanations of the tables, the indexes, and the volume III with the illustrations. The drying up of the Fucino lake, the largest lake in central Italy, was such a complex and expensive work that it could be counted among the most significant of the nineteenth century. The architect was the banker Alessandro Torlonia (1800 - 1886).