by PROVIDENCE & WORCESTER RAIL ROAD CO
Wear and staining to leather, but covers sound. Internally in fine condition. Folio ledger book (16 3/4 x 11 inches; 425 x 278 mm). Manuscript on paper: [2], 570 pages. 226 very finely drawn plot maps, with wash, ranging from small insertions on pages to full-page illustrations. Bound in original ledger leather, gilt, with label of Ackerman Co, Providence, gilt-lettered with title on spine. A superb record of the land deeds related to the development of the Providence & Worcester Rail Road Company [P & WRRC]. The preliminary pages record the sale of a section of land to the Lonsdale Company on 31 July 1871 (the preliminaries are dated 1899). The (truncated)