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 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) |
| 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 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 | Signatures: [a]²([a]1 + chi1) b-d² A-T² [U]². |
| 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 |
| Reproduction note | Joyner- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 29474; 47605). |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | NC Microfiche | MICROFICHE AM35E NO. 29474 | ✔ Available | |
| Joyner | NC Microfiche | MICROFICHE AM35E NO. 47605 | ✔ Available |