An Historical account of the rise, progress and present state of the canal navigation in Pennsylvania [electronic resource] : 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]
- Bib ID:
- 3386068
- Format:
- Book
- Online Version:
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- http://opac.newsbank.com/select/evans/29474
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- Description:
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- Philadelphia: : Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junior, number eighty, Chesnut-Street., MDCCXCV. [1795]
- [2], xvi, 80 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 col. map ; 21 cm. (4to)
- Series:
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- Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 29474.
- Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 47605.
- Notes:
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- Evans notes Robert Morris and William Smith as possible authors.
- "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.
- Map drawn by Reading Howell and engraved by James Trenchard.
- Errata note, p. [i].
- Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
- Cited In:
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- Evans 29474
- Bristol B9298
- Shipton & Mooney 47605
- Rink, E. Technical Americana, 4532
- Rink, E. Technical Americana, 4533
- Reproduction:
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- 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. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 29474). Mode of access : World Wide Web.
- 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. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 47605). Mode of access : World Wide Web.
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- United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
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- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1847
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 1795
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