Report of the Joint Committee

Item #81085

(WATER WORKS). Report of the Joint Committee of the Select and Common Councils, Appointed to Receive Information on the Subject of Watering the City, and to Employ Agents, When Necessary, for Promoting that object. Printed by Order of the Corporation of Philadelphia. Phila.: Zachariah Poulson, Junior, 1799. 1st ed. 7pp. Disbound. [with] Report to the Select and Common Councils, on the Progress and State of the Water Works, on the 24th. of November, 1799. Printed by Order of the Corporation of Philadelphia. Phila.: Zachariah Poulson, Junior, 1799. 1st ed. 44pp. Orig. unprinted wrappers. [with] Report of the Committee Appointed by the Common Council to Enquire into the State of the Water Works. Printed by Order of the Common Council. Phila.: William Duane, 1802. 1st ed. 85pp. ?-title. Orig. unprinted wrappers. [with] Report of the Joint Committee, Appointed by the Select and Common Councils for the Purpose of Superintending and Directing the Water Works. Printed by Order of the Common Council. Phila.: Robert Cochran, 1802. 1st ed. 23pp. Orig. unprinted wrappers. Old waterstain. [with] Report of the Watering Committee, on the Subject of Obtaining Water Power from the River Schuylkill. Phila.: Lydia R. Bailey, 1820. 1st ed. 50pp. Orig. unprinted wrappers. [with] Report of the Watering Committee of the Select and Common Councils of Philadelphia, Relative to the Termination of the Columbia and Philadelphia Rail Road. Phila.: Lydia R. Bailey, 1830. 1st ed. 18pp. Orig. unprinted wrappers. Old waterstain. [with] [LATROBE, Benjamin]. An Answer to the Joint Committee of the Select and Common Councils of Philadelphia, on the Subject of a Plan for Supplying the City with Water, &c.[Phila.: n.p., 1799]. 1st ed. 7pp. Folded folio leaf, untrimmed and uncut, starting on spine. [with] A List of Water Rents Due in Walnut and South Wars to July 1st 1807. Manuscript notebook. 21pp. Orig. cloth-backed marbled boards, manuscript label. All housed in custom red morocco backed marbled boards clamshell box, manuscript in own cloth box. Some scattered foxing, two of the pamphlets with very old waterstains, else very good or better. Evans 36086, 36089, 36091. Rink 2732. We can find no records of these water works reports coming to auction in over 100 years. The first report has not appeared on the market since the Pennypacker Sale of 1906. All the repor.

Price: $5,750.00