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Lot 376
[CINCINNATI]. ROEBLING, John Augustus. Report and Plan for a Wire Suspension Bridge... Over the Ohio River at Cincinnati. FIRST EDITION.
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[CINCINNATI]. ROEBLING, John Augustus (1806-1869). Report and Plan for a Wire Suspension Bridge, Proposed to be Erected Over the Ohio River at Cincinnati. Cincinnati, OH: John Ocheltree for J.A. & U.P. James, 1846.


Folio (281 x 174 mm). Folding lithographed elevation of the bridge, 35 pp. (Vermin damage to top edge of text block and covers with losses to some words near the end with a few leaves and map with repairs, slight dampstaining to outer tail-margin, a few occasional spots.) Original printed wrappers (rebacked with some tears and old cellotape repairs along near backstrip, overall toning, some soiling and vermin damage); morocco folding case. Provenance: Old inscriptions partially effaced.

FIRST EDITION of the report and plans that resulted in the construction of the Cincinnati-Covington bridge in 1866. At the time of its construction, the Cincinnati-Covington Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world, spanning the Ohio River and linking its namesake cities. Roebling, a civil engineer, also designed the Brooklyn Bridge, now a National Historic Landmark.

Property from the Collection of Robert S. Brown, Cincinnati, Ohio
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