[Stencil Duplicated Typescript] Improvement of Harbors and Rivers of the Chesapeake Bay ... improvement of the entrance to the harbor of Baltimore ....

Washington DC: GPO, 1867 - 1891. Unknown. A standard three quarter roan and black cloth binding.
. Very good; covers present but detached.. 4to, a stencil duplication of typescripts interspersed with extracted portions of the printed reports that have been mounted or bound in chronological sequence containing substantial revisions in each year marked on the printed reports; appx. 100 pages.

An excellent run of the engineering reports for the improvement of Baltimore Harbor and the Patapsco River in the late nineteenth century. Work on this project was intermittent because of the lack of federal funding. The text provides a vivid account of the work of the Army Corps of Engineers (as well as a mind numbing level of detail) throughout the last decades of the nineteenth century. There is an occasional text map in the body of the reports. The editorial changes and alteration of tables and report information noted throughout are extensive. This copy was the personal property of A H Hutton, engineer and member of the Baltimore Harbor Board. He has signed it on the first leaf of text.