A treatise on the improvement of canal navigation : exhibiting the numerous advantages to be derived from small canals, and boats of two to five feet wide containing from two to five tons burthen : with a description of the machinery for facilitating conveyance by water through the most mountainous countries, independent of locks and aqueducts : including observations on the great importance of water communications : with thoughts on and designs for aqueducts and bridges of iron and wood / by R. Fulton.

Presentation copy to Gen. Kosciusko, with author's autograph inscription and date June 11th, 1797, also presented by Gen. K. to Thomas Jefferson, with the latter's autograph. According to records at Monticello, this copy was in Jefferson's library by 1800 but not found at the time of the 1815 sale to the Library of Congress. It was thought to have been subsequently found and retained in Jefferson's Retirement Library (see that catalogue, p. 28, no. 215), which was sold at auction by Nathaniel P. Poor in Washington, D.C. in 1829. A reference in Jefferson's correspondence (provided by Endrina Tay at Monticello, March 27, 2013) shows that the copy he held in his Retirement Library was actually acquired by him in 1819 from Eastburn, James & Co. in New York, and consequently cannot be identified with the Morgan copy. The Morgan copy was purchased by J.P. Morgan in 1909.