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(PANAMA.) Moreno Campo, Gabriel. Memoria y Planos de un Anteproyecto para la terminación del Canal de Panamá.

(PANAMA.) Moreno Campo, Gabriel. Memoria y Planos de un Anteproyecto para la terminación del Canal de Panamá. 3 printed folding plans. 16 pages, Autograph Manuscript Signed. 8vo, original wrappers printed in gilt, worn; minor browning; bookplate of Albert Parreño on inside front wrapper. Madrid, 14 December 1892 (copy made circa 1894)

  • Notes: The French had been working on a canal across Panama since the 1880s with poor results, and were then on the verge of abandoning the project. This proposal for completing the canal was presented in Paris, but ultimately not accepted. Another manuscript copy is listed as Palau 182040.
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