£140
Local Interest. Nine pieces of printed &/or manuscript ephemera relating to Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire canals, late 18th c and later, including a [2]ff MS letter from James Fletcher, manager of the Ripley coalmine, to William Hunter, of Kilburn Hall, Derbyshire, dated Codnor, 1st Jan:y 1817, viz. the Ripley mine being at a standstill due to the Cromford Canal being frozen, 4to, J. Smith (fl. 1776), A Plan of the Navigable Canal [...] from the River Trent to Langley Bridge, in the Counties of Derby and Nottingham; Survey'd in 1776, engraving, contemporaneously delineated in colour, trimmed, 25 x 30.5cm, six Nottingham Canal Company broadsides, dated 1815-1847, 'A List of the Proprietors of the Erewash Canal, April, 1833', Loughborough: D. Cartwright, Printer, 25.4 x 18.9cm, Cromford Canal permit, etc
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