Oct 10, 2002 - Sale 1946

Sale 1946 - Lot 377

Price Realized: $ 259
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(TRANSPORTATION.) United States. Group of 4 pamphlets relating to railroads, canals or shipping, each a government document. Each 8vo, stitched self-wrappers, condition varies. Washington, 19th century

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Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting a Memoir on the Survey of the route of a Canal, to Connect Buzzard and Barnstable Bays. 1826 Report . . . the memorial of the inhabitants of that part of West Florida . . . in relation to the navigation of the Bayou or River St. John. 1828 Memorial of Asa Whitney . . . for a grant of land to enable him to construct a railroad from lake Michigan to the Pacific Ocean. 1848 Petition of the People's Pacific Railroad Company . . . for the Purpose of building a railroad . . . to San Francisco. 1860.<