[SAMMELBAND OF EIGHT PRINTED PAMPHLETS AND ONE MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT RELATED TO THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW YORK AND ERIE RAILROAD]

[Railroads]: [New York]

Verlag: various publishers, [New York & Albany, 1836

Individually paginated, as below. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Boards and leather rubbed, repaired at head of spine and outer corners with modern leather, joints cracked and both hinges reinforced with paper. Light scattered foxing, but otherwise internally clean. Very good overall. A sammelband of eight scarce and early pamphlets and one manuscript related to the establishment and early stages of the New York and Erie Rail Road. The company was chartered in 1832, and construction on the main line from Piermont, New York, to Dunkirk, Michigan finally began in 1836. Despite decades of financial troubles, including a costly and complicated struggle between Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould over shares (during which Boss Tweed was made a director), the main line remained in operation until 1960, and later extensions remain in service today. The documents collected in this volume record the early legal and financial history of the company, and are as follows: 1) CHARTER OF THE NEW-YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD COMPANY, AND LIST OF OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS. New-York: George P. Scott and Co., 1835. 18,[1]pp. Includes a list of officers and directors of the line, the Act to incorporate the railroad, and a one-page "Act further to amend the Act to incorporate the New-York and Erie Rail-Road Company, passed April 24, 1832. Passed May 8, 1835," not originally issued with the charter. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 33350. OCLC 191247249 (9 copies). 2) AN ACT FURTHER TO AMEND THE ACT TO INCORPORATE THE NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL ROAD COMPANY PASSED APRIL 24th 1832. PASSED MAY 11th 1836 [manuscript caption title]. [2]pp. manuscript on lined paper. Adds a provision that the railroad will carry U.S. Mail and establishes contingencies for negotiating rates. We do not locate an official printing of this manuscript amendment. 3) STATE OF NEW-YORK. No. 107. IN ASSEMBLY, JANUARY 29, 1835. COMMUNICATION FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE TRANSMITTING THE REPORT OF A SURVEY OF A ROUTE FOR A RAIL-ROAD FROM THE CITY OF NEW-YORK TO LAKE ERIE. [Albany. 1835]. 99pp. The survey of this route was one of the last projects undertaken by Benjamin Wright, the "Father of American Civil Engineering" and chief engineer of the Erie Canal. Includes tables of grades and estimated costs and benefits of various proposed routes. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 33340. OCLC 28546765, 54142496, 79823587, 44210468 (12 copies). 4) REPORT OF BENJ. WRIGHT, ESQ. CIVIL ENGINEER, RELATIVE TO THE SURVEY OF THE NEW-YORK AND ERIE RAILROAD [caption title]. [New York: Office of the Railroad Journal, 1835]. 16pp., printed in two columns. A separate printing of the first portion of the previous report, also including the Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of New York, in respect to the New-York and Erie Railroad Company. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 33354. OCLC 34339085 (18 copies). 5) REPORT OF MONCURE ROBINSON, OF PENNSYLVANIA, JONATHAN KNIGHT, OF MARYLAND, AND BENJAMIN WRIGHT, OF NEW-YORK, CIVIL ENGINEERS, UPON THE PLAN OF THE NEW-YORK AND ERIE RAIL ROAD. New-York: George P. Scott & Co., 1835. 11pp. Moncure Robinson was one of America's leading antebellum civil engineers and succeeded Wright as one of the foremost transportation engineers in North America. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 34032. OCLC 28052996, 1313204116, 191247251 (21 copies). 6) FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE NEW-YORK AND ERIE RAIL ROAD COMPANY, MADE TO THE STOCKHOLDERS, SEPTEMBER 29, 1835. New-York: G.P. Scott & Co., 1835. 36pp. Includes a section responding to public opposition to the proposed railroad. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 33349. OCLC 17538233, 191247248, 562232163, 243784049 (21 copies). 7) COPY OF THE REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE NEW-YORK AND ERIE RAILROAD COMPANY, FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE ON THE 12th DAY OF JANUARY, 1836. 11pp. plus folding table. Includes the receipts and expenditures of the company in 1835, and a table of engineer James Seymour's "estimate of quantity, and Contractor's prices." Rare. Not in A. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers WRCAM57775

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Titel: [SAMMELBAND OF EIGHT PRINTED PAMPHLETS AND ...
Verlag: various publishers, [New York & Albany
Erscheinungsdatum: 1836