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THE WORLD'S LIGHTHOUSES BEFORE 1820

by D. Alan Stevenson

Published by Oxford University Press. 1st. 1959

Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. The purpose of this book is to record facts about seamarks and to arrange them in Sections, with some explanation, to show the transition from the wood fires of Antiquity to the reflector lights of 1819. Includes an account of the Eddystone Lighthouse. Large format. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine and gilt crest to front board. xxiv and 310 pages including index. Top edge gilt.

Boards clean. Minor foxing to text block and endpapers. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is a little browned and grubby, small closed tear to top front edge of spine (no loss).

Stock no. 1830765

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Contents

  • FOREWORD
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • OBSERVATIONS ON EARLY LIGHTHOUSES
  • PART ONE: A GENERAL ACCOUNT OF LIGHTHOUSES BEFORE 1820
  • Section I: Lighthouses of Antiquity
  • II. Medieval Lighthouses
  • III. Lighthouses 1590 to 1690
  • IV. Progress 1690 to 1782
  • V. Progress 1782 to 1800
  • VI. Progress 1800 to 1820 and a Survey of Seamarks in 1819
  • PART TWO: A FULLER ACCOUNT OF CERTAIN LIGHTHOUSES
  • VII. English lighthouses 1600 to 1690
  • VIII. The Eddystone and Smalls Lighthouses 1690 to 1778
  • IX. English lighthouses established between 1690 and 1800
  • X. Scottish and Irish lighthouses 1700 to 1800
  • XI. North American lighthouses before 1800
  • XII. French lighthouses in Normandy and at Cordauan 1739 to 1797
  • XIII. The Bell Rock Lighthouse 1806 to 1811
  • XIV. Lighthouses 1800 to 1819 in the British Isles, Frence, Sweden, NW Russia and the United States
  • XV Authority to establish English Lighthouses
  • PART THREE : ILLUMINATION OF EARLY LIGHTHOUSES
  • Section XVI. Illuminants and optical Apparatus
  • A. Illuminants
  • B. Powerful and distinctive Lights
  • C. Characters of Lights
  • D. Reflectors and Lenses
  • E. Actual optical apparatus
  • APPENDIX: The Bell Rock Lighthouse: its designer and constructor
  • INDEX

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