[GEORGIA - CANALS & RAILROADS]. A sammelband of 5 promotional imprints regarding the Brunswick, Georgia Canal and Railroad Company, comprising:

BALDWIN, Loammi (1780-1838). Report on the Brunswick Canal and Rail Road, Glynn County, Georgia. Boston: John H. Eastburn, 1837. Second edition. De Renne II, p. 453. -- [Trust Deed, and By-Laws, of the Brunswick Land and Canal Companies. Boston: N.p., 1837.] -- By-laws of the Brunswick Canal and Rail Road Company. [Boston: N.p., 1836.] -- [Public Sale, At] Brunswick, Georgia… January… 1837. [Boston: N.p., 1837.] -- [Report] to the Directors and Stockholders of the Brunswick Land Company and of the Brunswick Canal and Rail Road Company. Boston: N.p., March 1838.

5 works bound in one, 8vo (224 x 133 mm). 2 folding maps. (Some toning and spotting.) 19th-century quarter brown morocco gilt, marbled boards (some minor wear). Colonel Loammi Baldwin, known as the Father of American Civil Engineering, served in the American Revolutionary War, fighting in the Battle of Lexington and Concord, the Battle of Bell’s Point, and the Battle of Trenton. The folding maps depict a plan of the city of Brunswick, Georgia in 1837, and a plan for the canal between the Altamaha River to Brunswick Harbor. Thomson, Checklist of Publications on American Railroads before 1841, 1228, 1553, 1566, 1567, 1810.

Property from the Collection of Robert P. Hunter, Jr. and Barbara Hunter, Alpharetta, Georgia