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

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Contains numerous illustrations of fire-engines, Erie canal scenes, and facsimiles of letters from Adams, Jefferson, Monroe and others.
Engravings by A.B. Durand, Samuel Maverick, John F. Morin, and John Francis Eugene Prud'homme.
With lithographs by Anthony Imbert.
Added title page: An account of the grand canal celebration at New York, November the fourth, 1825.
"Appendix, containing an account of the commemoration of the completion of the Erie Canal."--Pages [105]-288.
"Narrative of the festivities observed in honor of the completion of the grand Erie Canal."--Pages [292]-408.
Includes bibliographical references.
Errata: page [1], 3rd count.
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 14279
BEIN Nec47 Er46 825c: Bound with: New York (City) Common council. Appendix ... 1826. Bound with: Stone, Wm. L. Narrative of the festivities observed in honor of the completion of the grand Erie Canal, 1825.
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary red gilt- and blind-stamped morocco; presentation binding from the City of New York to Major General Morton, of the Artillery of the State of New York.