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A view of the advantages of inland navigations: with a plan of a navigable canal, ... between the ports of Liverpool and Hull.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1747 Hal (b.w.) Af.318.5 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bentley, Thomas, 1731-1780 15416
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- [4],40p.,plate : map ; 8°.
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for Becket and de Hondt; Johnson and Davenport; Parsons and Smith, in Newcastle under Lyne; and J. Gore, in Liverpool, 1765.
- Notes:
- Anonymous. By Thomas Bentley (Des Fontanes, J.: 'Josiah Wedgwood: the arts and sciences united', London, 1978, pp. 9-10).
- With a dedication.
- P. 15 of 'Facts and reasons tending to shew, that the proposed canal, from the Trent to the Mersey, ought not to terminate at Northwich and Burton', the 16pp. edition, [1766], states that of 'A view of the advantages of inland navigations' "above 1000 copies were sold and distributed".
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- Bound with Hales, Account, q.v.; item 5 in volume. Signature on title: Wm Duane No. 185. Modern half sheep; bound with other items. MS table of contents in modern hand bound in front; purchased from Dufief, 1801-03, by Col. William Duane; signature on title: Wm Duane No. 180, and on p. 31: Wm Duane No. 181; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia; sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
- Cited in:
- Higgs 3544, Goldsmiths' 10129
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