18mo (143x88 mm), (4)-x-(2)-287 pages, 2 folding plates and 90 pages Roret's catalog. binding : Modern full paper, flat spine. Original wrappers have been bound in.
First edition. One of the very first works in French on railways. Édouard Constant Biot (1803 - 1850) was a French engineer and sinologist. He participated as an engineer in the construction of the second French railway line, between Lyon and Saint-Étienne.