Stapled paper wrappers
1906 · [Washington, D.C.:]
by [Egypt. Whitehouse, Cope] Roosevelt, Theodore
[Washington, D.C.:]: n.p., 1906. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy with minor edgewear to wrappers.. 92 pp. Illus. with 1 b/w in-text drawing. 8vo. 59th Congress, 1st Session. Senate. Document No. 104. "Cope Whitehouse was a rich New York lawyer who spent his private fortune on his amateur work as a passionate "Egyptologist", not only conducting archaeological digs in the Middle East but receiving international acclaim for his humanitarian efforts to "regulate" the water supply from the River Nile in times of drought." He discovered the depression in the Egyptian desert known as the Wadi Raiyan, 1882, and wrote many papers advocating it as a storage reservoir as noted in this report. OCLC locates only three hard copies: Linda Hall, Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Univ. Liverpool. Irrigation: A Selected Bibliography p. 409.
(Inventory #: 37681)