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Title
A treatise on the improvement of canal navigation : exhibiting the numerous advantages to be derived from small canals ; and boats of two to five feet wide, containing from two to five tons burthen ; with a description of the machinery for facilitating conveyance by water through the most mountainous countries, independent of locks and aqueducts ; including observations on the great importance of water communications, with thoughts on, and designs for, aqueducts and bridges of iron and wood ; illustrated with seventeen plates / by R. Fulton, civil engineer.
Call Number
EX 9180.371
Oversize Lapidus 5.941q
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc9c67wx62p
Publisher
London : Published by I. and J. Taylor at the Architectural Library, 1796.
Language
English
Date Created
1796
Extent
xvi, 144 p., [17] p. of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 2 (EX 9180.371 copy 2) Presented by Mrs. Marshall L. Brown, from the collection of Cyrus H. McCormick, Class of 1879.
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC, T101123
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Later three quarter calf; marbled boards.
Princeton copy 2 (EX 9180.371 copy 2) Bound in three quarter red goatskin, red marbled boards, red marbled endleaves, top edge gilt, with stamps on front free endpaper 'Charles E. Lauriat Co.' and 'Bound by W. Roach Co. N.Y.'

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Subject
Canals
Bookplates

Physical Characteristics

File Count
205

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b774c29d-32d0-445f-81ea-9d73c1b751bc/manifest