Sketches of the Works for the Tunnel, under the Thames, from Rotherhithe to Wapping
[London]: Published by Harvey and Darton, 55, Gracechurch Street, 1831. Marbled Wrappers. Rare issue of this fascinating and fragile pictorial and written record of the first tunnel constructed successfully beneath a navigable river: OCLC records no 1831 edition (but several, dating 1828, '29, and '30), and RBH lists only one..... more