An Historical account of the rise, progress and present state of the canal navigation in Pennsylvania : With an appendix, containing, abstracts of the acts of the Legislature since the year 1790, and their grants of money for improving roads and navigable waters throughout the state; to which is annexed, "an explanatory map." / Published by direction of the president and managers of the Schuylkill and Susquehanna, and the Delaware and Schuylkill Navigation Companies. ; [Twenty two lines of verse].
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junior, number eighty, Chesnut-Street, MDCCXCV. [1795] |
| Description | 2 unnumbered pages, xvi, 80 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : 1 color map ; 21 cm (4to) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Morris, Robert, 1734-1806. |
| Other author/creator | Smith, William, 1727-1803. |
| Other author/creator | Howell, Reading, 1743-1827, cartographer. |
| Other author/creator | Trenchard, James, 1747- engraver. |
| Other author/creator | Delaware and Schuylkill Canal Company. |
| Other author/creator | Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation. |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 29474. ^A478749 Early American imprints. First series ; no. 47605. ^A478749 |
| General note | Evans notes Robert Morris and William Smith as possible authors. |
| General note | "An act to enable the president and managers of the Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation ... to raise, by way of lottery, the sum of four hundred thousand dollars ... Approved April 17, 1795. ..."--p. 79-80 of the second state (Evans 29474). Page [78] is blank. In the first state (Bristol B9298) the text ends on p. 77, with p. [78-80] blank. |
| General note | Map drawn by Reading Howell and engraved by James Trenchard. |
| General note | Errata note, p. [i]. |
| References | Evans 29474 |
| References | Bristol B9298 |
| References | Shipton & Mooney 47605 |
| References | Rink, E. Technical Americana, 4532 |
| References | Rink, E. Technical Americana, 4533 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 29474). |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 47605). |
| Genre/form | Maps Pennsylvania. |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |