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LANGUEDOC (CANAL DE)]. ANDRÉOSSY (General Antoine François). History of the Canal du Midi, or Canal de Languedoc, considered in terms of invention, art, administration, irrigation, and in its relations with the inland ponds which surround it [...]. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Crapelet, an XIII - 1804. One volume in-4° paperback (of 2), mute cover. One portrait and 30 folded engraved plates. The author, great-grandson of the engineer-geographer François Andréossy, contests Riquet's authorship of the canal in favour of his grandfather. From the library of Pierre Gazel, with handwritten ex-libris on the title page.

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LANGUEDOC (CANAL DE)]. ANDRÉOSSY (General Antoine François). History of the Canal du Midi, or Canal de Languedoc, considered in terms of invention, art, administration, irrigation, and in its relations with the inland ponds which surround it [...]. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Crapelet, an XIII - 1804. One volume in-4° paperback (of 2), mute cover. One portrait and 30 folded engraved plates. The author, great-grandson of the engineer-geographer François Andréossy, contests Riquet's authorship of the canal in favour of his grandfather. From the library of Pierre Gazel, with handwritten ex-libris on the title page.

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[Manette]. [Regionalism]. Lot of books including: [Languedoc]. CADIERGUES (G.). History of the seigneury of La Capelle-Merlival... Cahors, 1906. 22 cm, bound. [Burgundy]. PERRIN (J.). Cardinal Loménie de Brienne... Sens, 1896. 22 cm, paperback. [Gascogne]. CAUNA (B., baron de). Armorial des Landes. Paris, 1973. 4 volumes, 19 cm, bound. [Languedoc]. LA ROQUE (L. de). Armorial de la noblesse du Languedoc... Montpellier, 1860. 2 volumes, 24 cm, bound. [Languedoc]. DOSSAT (Y.). Les crises de l'Inquisition toulousaine au XIIIe siècle... Bordeaux, 1959. 24 cm, bound. [Languedoc]. RIVOIRE (H.). Satistique du département du Gard. Nîmes, 1842. 2 volumes, 30 cm, bound. [Languedoc]. CHAUSSINAND-NOGARET (G.). The financiers of Languedoc in the eighteenth century. Paris, 1970. 24 cm, paperback. [Languedoc]. REMIZE (F.). Biographies lozériennes... Toulouse, 1948. 25 cm, bound. [Languedoc]. ARNAUD (E.). Histoire des protestants du Vivarais... Geneva, 1979. 2 volumes, 23 cm, bound. [Guyenne]. FOURGOUS (J.). En Quercy, le pays lotois... Cahors, 1951. 24 cm, bound. [Guyenne]. LATAPIE (P.). Les Arques en Quercy... Cahors, 1956. 23 cm, hardback. [Languedoc]. GARIEL (P.). The governors of Languedoc. Montpellier, 1873. 21 cm, paperback. [Guyenne]. SOL (E.). L'église de Cahors au XVIIIe siècle... Aurillac, 1948. 22 cm, bound. [Guyenne]. SOL (E.). L'église de Cahors sur la fin du Second Empire... Paris, 1949. 25 cm, bound. [Languedoc]. BREMOND (A.). Nobiliaire toulousain... Toulouse, 1963. 2 volumes bound in 1 volume, 25 cm, bound. [Languedoc]. BREMOND (A.) Nobiliaire toulousain... Paris, 1974. 2 volumes, 25 cm, bound. [Languedoc]. BARBOT (M.). Médecins chirurgiens et apothicaires mendois... [Mende], ca. 1952. 27 cm, bound. [Languedoc]. BESONS (M. de). Pièces fugitives pour servir à l'histoire de France. No date. PACOTTE (Dom). Annales d'Aigues-Mortes... Montpellier, no date. Journal des Camisards. Works bound in 1 volume, 25 cm, bound. [Languedoc]. Inter-chercheurs cévenols. Génolhac, 1974-1980. 29 cm, bound. As is.

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