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 Microform
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junior, number eighty, Chesnut-Street, MDCCXCV. [1795]
Description2 unnumbered pages, xvi, 80 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : 1 color map ; 21 cm (4to)
Subjects

Other author/creatorMorris, Robert, 1734-1806.
Other author/creatorSmith, William, 1727-1803.
Other author/creatorHowell, Reading, 1743-1827, cartographer.
Other author/creatorTrenchard, James, 1747- engraver.
Other author/creatorDelaware and Schuylkill Canal Company.
Other author/creatorSchuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation.
SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 29474
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 29474. ^A478749
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 47605. ^A478749
General noteEvans 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 noteSignatures: [a]²([a]1 + chi1) b-d² A-T² [U]².
General noteMap drawn by Reading Howell and engraved by James Trenchard.
General noteErrata 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
Reproduction noteJoyner- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 29474; 47605).

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