Oct 21, 2004 - Sale 2018

Sale 2018 - Lot 61

Price Realized: $ 402
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(CANALS.) [Haines, Charles G.] Considerations on the Great Western Canal . . . Second Edition. 81 pages. 8vo, stitched self-wrappers; very minor foxing; uncut and unopened. Brooklyn, 1818

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Enlarged from the first edition published the same year. A fiercely pro-canal work, written at the beginning of the construction on the Erie Canal, which argues in part that the canal will potentially open up trade as far West as the Mississippi. Howes H17; Sabin 29547.