The Position and Prospects of the Schuylkill Navigation Company with To the Stock and Bond-Holders of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail-Road Company 1845

by Charles Ellet Jr.

$200 · Offered by Michael Pyron Books

First edition

Philadelphia: 1845. Disbound. near Very Good binding. Item #9254 Octavo. 36 pp. First edition. Removed from binding. Vertical crease from folding; minor toning; small, contemporary ink hash marks at the top of the title page. This pamphlet constitutes a request for a loan to replace one line of locks on the Schuylkill canal in order to increase the capacity of the tonnage of coal that might be conveyed from the Pennsylvania coal region. A

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