Nécessité et moyen d'occuper les ouvriers qui manquent d'ouvrage en France. Mémoire présenté au Roi et aux Chambres.

Paris, Imprimerie de Decourchant, 1831. With one folding map. 78, (2) pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco with gilt lettering and marbled boards. Goldsmiths 26898; not in Kress; not in Einaudi; not in Jouffroy, Recherches sur les sources de la création d'une Grande Lignes de Chemin de Fer au XIXe siècle; not in The Pioneer Period of European Railroads. First edition. Discusses the problems of unemployement, and proposes to put the unemployed to work by developping large-scale railroad projects, which in its turn will greatly contribute to the economy, and discusses the financial implications of the project. The folding map shows France indicating railroads in red (north-south) and blue (east-west). - Very lightly spotted.