Willcocks (William)
Plans of the Irrigation of Mesopotamia, 1911, with nine Gabriel Lekegian silver prints

Atlas only, without the text volume published in the same year by E. & F. N. Spon, 46 plans (on 45 sheets), many folding, list to front pastedown, publisher’s notice label, original cloth portfolio with ties, lettered in gilt, 45 x 36 cm, Cairo, Survey Department, 1911; with a loosely-inserted series of nine early matte silver prints by Gabriel Lekegian, depicting the Assiut Barrage and Aswan Dam in Egypt, studio credit within the negative, no.9 with a short tear, 23 x 29 cm.

***Sir William Willcocks KCMG (1852 - 1932) was a British civil engineer who proposed and built the first Aswan Dam. He later worked for the Ottoman Turkish government and supervised the Hindiya Barrage on the River Euphrates in Iraq.

We have found no record of copies at auction since 1952.