Rare and Unusual Books

Published: London, Adam and Charles Black,
Date: 1848.
Description: Frontis, xi, 439pp inc 117 figs. Tables, appendices. Plus 33 single-sided tissue-guarded plates. Decorated gilt lettered publisher's cloth, 33x22. Old water stain on one corner of frontis, occasional foxing, tissue guard browned and with a little offsetting, head and tail of spine professionally repaired, rear cover quite stained, binding tight. Still a good copy of a fine and substantial tome.
Notes: Alan Stevenson (1807-1865) was from the famous Stevenson family of Scottish engineers. He succeeded his father as engineer to the Northern Lighthouse Board and built 13 lighthouses around Scotland. Skerryvore, constructed on a remote reef 12 miles south west of Tiree 1838-44, was one of his greatest achievements. There were many construction difficulties. Skerryvore is the tallest lighthouse in the UK. An extremely detailed account of the building of the lighthouse with fine plates, maps etc.
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Price: £950.00