Claims to Certain Desert Lands in Egypt. Message from the President of the United States. Transmitting a Report of the Secretary of State forwarding copies of the papers called for in regard to the claims of Cope Whitehouse to certain desert lands in Egypt. January 4, 1906. Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed, with illustration.
[Washington, D.C.:]: n.p., 1906. 92 pp. Illus. with 1 b/w in-text drawing. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. A very good copy with minor edgewear to wrappers. Irrigation: A Selected Bibliography p. 409. Item #37681
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.
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