stevenson 1865 (8 Ergebnisse)

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Reprint. Previous owner's signature. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series: The world's classics ; 110. Physical description: 411p. ; 16cm. Subjects: English fiction. 3 Kg.

Gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Befriedigend. Oxford - 1960 : Elizabeth C. Gaskell - gb + Su. K. - 6-70-2-L4 Z5-1VEP-NYBF Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to. pp. x, [2 leaves], [9]-439, [1]. folding table. 35 engraved plates & maps (incl. frontis., 2 double-page, 1 folding). small title vignette. new half calf over older cloth sides, endpapers preserved, all edges gilt (some foxing to plates - generally light, dampstain to lower outer corner of frontis.). ownership entry of 'Thomas Ormiston 1849'. First Edition. Alan Stevenson joined his father Robert's engineering practice, and in 1843 succeeded him as engineer to the Commissioners of the Scottish Lighthouse Board. In this capacity he designed and built ten lighthouses, including Skerryvore, "the finest example for mass, combined with elegance of outline, of any extant rock tower. This tower, which is exposed to the full fetch of the Atlantic, is built on a rock fourteen miles from the nearest land, the island of Tyree. The work was begun in July 1838, but a storm swept away the temporary barrack, and another had to be erected in its place. The foundations of the tower involved the excavation of two thousand tons of material. The first stone was laid in July 1840, and the light exhibited in 1843.". (DNB) The optical apparatus is dioptric revolving, the most complete thus far constructed on the principles developed by Fresnel in France, but incorporating significant design improvements and innovations by Stevenson. "The lighthouse at Skerrryvore was, by any standards, an astonishing piece of engineering. It consisted of 137 feet of granite, weighing a total of 4,300 tons, with walls at the base 9.5 feet thick. When finally completed, it had taken seven years, 90,268 pounds sterling, 150 workmen, and the best part of Alan's working life. It was, as the Institute of Civil Engineers put it, the finest combination of mass with elegance to be met with in architectural or engineering structures."" (Bathurst, The Lighthouse Stevensons, p. 176) The present detailed and well-illustrated description of the design and construction of the lighthouse, also includes important notes by Stevenson on the illumination of lighthouses, which were subsequently extended and published in 1850 as A Rudimentary Treatise on the History, Construction, and Illumination of Lighthouses.