Memoir Cadwallader Colden 1825 Erie Canal Celebration Isaac Varians Copy NYC Mayor Tammany Hall Start Price USD 10,000.00 Current Price USD 10,000.00 Time Left 21 days 11 hours 1 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, October 01, 2008 End Time Thursday, January 29, 2009 Location Sean Fagan, Rare Books See more about 'Memoir Cadwallader Colden 1825 Erie Canal Celebration' Description   About Us       Contact Us       Shipping Terms & Return Policy        Bargain Bin       Newly Listed       We Buy Books      The Holidays are here already!  Over 10,000 fresh books coming to market in the next few months.  We need space and we will accept reasonable offers on all books.   Don't miss this chance! Reasonable offers accepted.     Browse These Books Too  Sets & Leather Bindings  First Editions & Classics  Civil War  American History  General History  Travels & Places Illustrated & Children's Books New York State History  Philosophy  Art & Sculpture  Architecture  Gardening & Nature  Science and Mathematics  Hunting & Fishing  Rare & Unusual Books  Miscellaneous  Poetry  Religion                 Author Name:   Colden, Cadwallader D. and William StoneTitle:    Memoir, Prepared at Request of Committee of Common Council of NY, and Presented to Mayor Celebration of Canals CompletionBinding:   HardcoverBook Condition:   Very Good/No Jacket as issued.Edition:   First EditionPublisher:   New York W.A Davis NY Corporation 1825Illustrator:   IllustratedSeller ID:   INTERLOC023480 Small Quarto, 408pp., Gilt lettered and decorated leather spine. Marbled paper covered boards and marbled end papers. Some scuffs on leather Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and Presented to the Mayor of the City at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals. Original binding. Many folding maps and facsimile documents. Some old newspaper clippings laid inside and pages darkened by them. A few old tape repairs to some of the folding documents. At the back of the book are eight facsimiles of letters (folded) from John Adams, Jefferson, James Monroe, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Gen. Lafayette and others. First edition. Howes C-562; American Imprints 20118. One of the first recorded American books illustrated with lithographs. An extremely important book documenting the greatest feat in early American engineering history. The Erie Canal which connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, among some 400 miles or more of canal-building, first proposed in 1699, was formally begun in 1819 and opened opened on October 26, 1825. This copy has a mounted presentation label and was given to Isaac Leggett Varian (New York, New York, June 25, 1793 - Peekskill, New York, August 10, 1864) was a New York state legislator and later on, a Mayor of New York. He also led Tammany Hall from 1835 until 1842. Most unusual association copy.American History, New York State New York History Erie Canal Transportation Engineering Created by eBay Blackthorne ver. 3.2.146.0 Place a Bid!

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