Beschreibung:

A quantity of books, maps and ledgers associated with British canals and waterways, 18th - 20th centuries, including: Seasonable Considerations on a Navigable Canal Intended to be cut from the River Trent, at Wilden Ferry... late 18th century with fold out map A Play of a Navigable Canal Intended for a Communication Between the Ports of Liverpool and Hull 21.5cm x 17cm, bound with Supplement to a Pamphlet, entitled, Seasonable... also with fold out map A Plan of Navigable Canals made and proposed to be made thro' the County of Chester and to the Town of Manchester 24cm x 20cm. Royal Commission on Canals and Waterways 12 Vols. quarto, various fold out maps, Wyman & Sons, 1906-1911. Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway Canals Western District Sections 1894, fold out table of lengths, reservoirs and locks. Map of the Birmingham Canal System A.W. Willet 1903. River Weaver Navigation the shortest route from Liverpool to the Salt Works of Northwich & Winsford and to the Potteries via Anderton Lift and the Trent & Mersey Canal, J.A. Saner 1902. Elsmere Port West (Leasedare) fold out plan of buildings, railways etc. Bradshaw's Canals and Navigable Rivers... octavo, with fold out map 62cm x 68cm, Henry Blacklock & Co, London 1904. Lancaster Canal Copy Documents & Plans Relating to the Lease of the Lancaster Canal (South Level) to the Leeds & Liverpool Canal Company, quarto, two indentures dated 1866 and bound with four Ordnance Map Office maps and a fold out map Lancaster Canal Transfer 1864. The Account of the River Weaver with the Treasurer of the County of Chester, leather bound, octavo, first entry dated April 5th 1827, the last March 31st 1898. Other fold out maps comprising: Scotland's Highland Waterway Caledonian Canal, Shropshire Union Canal, Manchester Ship Canal Eastham to Ince. Various bound volumes of canal acts and bye laws.