Patent Right Oppression Exposed;: Or, Knavery Detected. In an Address, to Unite All Good People to Obtain a Repeal of the Patent Laws

Evans, Oliver

R. Folwell, and G. Allchin, 1813

[Rare Americana] Bound in contemporary full leather.  Gilt ruled spine.  Half title and title pages supplied in facsimile.  xi, 189 (1) pages ; 20 cm.  Spotting, browning.  Early signatures of David Stuny.  

"The author makes the prophecy that steam carriages "will set out from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup at New York, the same day." On p. [184]-186, is an extract signed by Oliver Evans, "From the Aurora of Dec. 10, 1813," in which Evans discusses a project "of establishing a line between Philadelphia and New York for the transportation of heavy produce merchandise and passengers, on carriages to be drawn by steam engines, on railways or smooth roads..." Patrick N. I. Elisha is a pseudonym for Oliver Evans (see Bathe's Oliver Evans, p. 345)."  - Thomas Thomson, "Check List of Publications on American Railroads Before 1841," 1942.