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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation.

Delaware and Schuylkill Canal Company.

American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)

Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canals--Pennsylvania--Early works to 1800.

Canals.

Pennsylvania.

Genre:

Early works.

Intaglio prints.

Maps -- Pennsylvania.

Physical Description:

[2], xvi, 80 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map (engraving) ; 21 cm (4to)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junior ..., MDCCXCV [1795]

Notes:

Signatures: pi1 [a]² b-d² A-T² [U]².

Errata: p. [i].

LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection.

Local Notes:

HSP copy on deposit in the Library Company of Philadelphia.

HSP copy incomplete. p. 78-80 and map w

Cited in:

Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 1234

Sabin

Evans 29474

ESTC W12691

OCLC:

4977932