History Of The Rise Progress And Existing Condition Of The Western Canals In The State Of New York

by Elkanah Watson

$650 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

2 , 210, 2 pp., plus frontispiece and four plates two of them double-page and two maps one folding . Title-page vignette. 8vo. Original printed paper boards, hinges cracked, rear board nearly detached, paper a bit chipped. Scattered foxing and toning. Still, a good, unsophisticated copy. Howes W166; Sabin 102130; American Imprints 4187; Rink 4736. Item #346008 Contains Watson's 1791 journal of his trip to the West, his history of canals, and

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