lighthouses (19 Ergebnisse)

folio [32x21cm]. disbound. 12 pages. good condition. [shipping charges will be reduced when this order is processed. Please see our storefront page for shipping information] details of all the lights and buoys controlled by the three boards, together with remarks on their condition at the time of inspection. [2].

folio [32x21cm]. disbound. 21 pages. good condition. [shipping charges will be reduced when this order is processed. Please see our storefront page for shipping information] details of all the lights and buoys controlled by the three boards, together with remarks on their condition at the time of inspection.

folio [32x21cm]. disbound. 11 pages. good condition. [shipping charges will be reduced when this order is processed. Please see our storefront page for shipping information] details of all the lights and buoys controlled by the three boards, together with remarks on their condition at the time of inspection.

folio [32x21cm]. disbound. 12 pages. good condition [ shipping charges will be reduced when this order is processed. Please see our storefront page for shipping information] details of all the lights and buoys controlled by the three boards, together with remarks on their condition at the time of inspection.

No Binding. Zustand: Good. NASH (illustrator). An original antique engraving, from the Graphic of 1892, showing Longships Lighthouse at Land's End, The Needles Lighthouse on the Isle of Wight and the Wolf Lighthouse in Cornwall. This engraving is too large to post mounted (matted) and will be sent rolled in a tube.

Hard Back. 1st. Pictorial dust jacket in good condition with some minor wear to the extremities Illustrated profusely Binding tight Overall very good pp 256. book.

Zustand: Good. New York. 1856 first edition. Putnam. Original printed green wraps. pp. 113-224 plus ads. Includes "Lighthouse Construction and Illumination" pp. 198-213. Good , cover wear; no owner marks.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Melbourne, Government Printer, 1912. Folio, 10 pages plus an addendum slip. Titling-wrappers, stapled as issued; minor rust-marks to the covers; an excellent copy. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 6 of 1912; only 950 copies printed.

A commemorative book of stamps featuring lighthouses, 12pp with some fold-out pictorial illustrations and designs. Each page has a different set of stamps in plastic display pockets as issued. Black and white and coloured photographic illustrations throughout, 32.5 x 21.5cm, text in simplified Chinese characters and English. Includes a page of four postcards of different lighthouses with their respective stamps. Board pictorial covers, protected in a slip case. Minor stains on a few pages, in original slip case, excellent condition, and stamps are pristine. The lighthouses in this volume include both modern structures and ancient pagodas. Of particular interest are the stamps commemorating Zheng He's maritime expeditions.

8 issues each of 6 -7 pages. folio (32x21cm). disbound. good clean condition. a collection of the printed Lighthouse Fund accounts for the years 1899-1900, 1900-1901, 1901-1902, 1902-1903, 1904-1905, 1905-1906, 1910-1911, 1918-1919. [Please see our storefront page for shipping information].

London, The Religious Tract Society, 1895, 1st ed., 224pag., b/w illustrations (many full-page) original gilt cloth with an illustration of a lighthouse on cover.

On one side of a piece of laid paper, roughly 31 x 20 cm. 30 lines. Tipped in along one edge inside modern folder with grey paper boards. Good, on paper lightly creased at foot. Addessed 'To Dawson Turner Esqre' by 'Custom House | Yarmouth | 11 December 1826 | [signed] '. Suggests a meeting to discuss suggestions 'with a view to afford additional means of security to Ships and Vessels navigating on the Coast of England, and particularly on the East Coast, and up the Swin to the Rivers Thames or Medway', and the advantages 'by the establishment and maintenance of one or more Floating Lights, (and if of two, the easternmost to be stationed in a situation near the west end of the Swin Middle, and the westernmost near where the Shears Beacon now stands'. Notye: Dawson Turner was a banker, botanist and antiquary (Norfolk)[Wikipedia].

Oblong 8vo. Pp. 163 + add. (ii), 12, (2). With one large folding coloured map and 97 plates (of which 5 in the addendum). Contemporary marbled boards, calf spine, rebacked. Recased with new end papers. Private stamps. First edition. This thorough study on Swedish lighthouses gives an historical background and some general information about regulations and schedules, etc. It's followed by a detailed account of 87 lighthouses giving information about their location, appearance and shape, postition, light range, etc., and with an illustration of each lighthouse. A charming and comprehensive work, the first of its kind in Sweden. Scarce, especially with the addendum.

London, Simpkin Marshall, and Co., 1882, VII,(1),186 pag., frontispiece, 4 plates, woodengraved illustrations, 20th cent. halfcalf with marbled boards, original illustrated wrappers bound with.

Zustand: Good. Washington 1878. Embracing the sea-coast , bays, harbors and rivers from the Northeast boundaryof the United States to Hampton harbor, New Hampshire corrected to February 1, 1878. Small folio, 43pp., index, original wraps, Good wraps split at seam, fraying on all edges. Scarce.

Pamphlet, 'Published for the Information of Officers of the Quartermaster's Department', From the papers of Montgomery Meigs, Jr, son of The Union Army's Quarter-Master. One copy listed on WorldCat (the Huntington). General], 9pp.,12mo, original grey printed wraps, good, on aged paper, in worn and stained wraps, tiny cross shape neatly punched through the leaves in bottom outer corner.

London, W. Clowes and Sons, 1867, 66,(1)pag., 2 folded lithographed plates, original blindtooled and giltlettered cloth.= Rare work on lighthouse optics by the English industrialist J.T. Chance, with his dedication to Leónce Reynaud (director of the French Lighthouse Service) on title-page, and probably with the latter's calculations in pencil.

(London), 1845. Folio. Contemp. hcalf. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Some wear along hinges and spine rubbed. Corners bumped. XXXVI,782 pp., 6 plates and 1 large folded, hand-coloured engraved map. Clean and fine.

pp. [717]-747; [609]-611; [533]-536. THREE TITLES. Excellent copies disbound from the annual volumes.