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Bartlett, John R.
Outline of Plans (With Illustrations) For Furnishing An Abundant Supply of Water to The City of New York, from a Source Independent of the Croton Water-shed ...
New York: John R. Bartlett and Associates 1888. Hard Cover. First Edition. Original brown cloth boards with plain spine and titled front board. Title faded and only partially readable. Corners bent, head/tail spine with some wear. Front endpaper has tipped in paper "Judge Henry Wilder Allen, New York Hotel, City" handwritten with "With the compliments of JR Bartlett, No. 2 Wall Street, New York" printed below. 117 pages. Includes Birdseye View of Northwestern NJ and Orange/Rockland Counties in NY showing mountains, lakes, rivers and streams (color), Map of the Croton and Passaic Watersheds (colored, engraved by the American Bank Note Co), Views of Great Falls, Little Falls, Ramapo River, Rockaway Rover, Macopin Lake, Split Rock Lake, Lake Mecanesi, Greenwood Lake and Lake Hopatcong (all monochrome photographic reproductions). Also bound in is a clarification insert at pages 66/67 explaining something in more detail. There is also a Profile Map of Pipe Line from Great Notch Reservoir to New York (foldout with 7 panels in color). The table of illustrations also calls for a Profile showing Completed Tunnel, Working in Heading No 1. No 2., Sectional View, showing the beginning of Construction of the Tunnel, and Sectional Views of Tunnel and Pipe Lines. Although this is listed on 4 lines in the text, there are in fact 2 full page plates highlighting the tunnel headers (labeled No 1 and No 2) and 2 sections of the Hudson tunnel (labeled No 3 and No 4). The following page is a foldout in 3 sections highlighting the Profile of the Hudson River Tunnel with Water Conduit from Jersey City to New York across the top, with a cutaway of the tunnel to scale on the Jersey City side and 3 smaller illustrations showing the interior of the air lock, springing the arch, and putting up the plate sections. These illustrations are numbered No 5 through No 9. While far from clear given the layout of the illustrations table, this section also appears complete. Several of these illustrations appear to have been reprinted from the Scientific American NY. One plate fold is torn about 3 inches. The "Large Map of Croton and Passaic Water-sheds" called for in the table of illustrations is not present, as is true in the only other copy we've seen. The book is otherwise complete. [2 - title page], iv, A-D, [1]-117 pages. Good. [Book #16754] |