Brief Practical Treatise on the Construction and Management of Plank Roads
New Albany, Indiana: Kent & Norman, 1850. First Edition. Octavo, brown cloth with black morocco spine, gilt titling to spine, 139 pp, lacking frontispiece. A mid-19th-century American book promoting the construction of plank roads in the American Midwest. The appendix prints the general plank wood road laws of New York, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois. The author was an important Indiana politician and social reformer born in Scotland. No copies at auction since 1981. Lacking frontispiece. Foxing and toning to pages, owner's signature to front endpaper, mild wear to cover corners and upper spine tip, mild stains to cover, small chip to upper spine tip, a sound copy. Item #14637
Price: $300.00