A History of Lighthouses by Beaver, Patrick - 1973

Secaucus, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Citadel Press, 1973. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Large soft cover, flat uncreased spine, clean square and tight, xii, 158 pages with illustrations plus 12 pages of b & w photos, Very Good Plus condition with front cover small corner crrease & errant ink mark on bottom edge, faint edge wear. "For nearly 2,000 years lighthouses followed the pattern of Ptolemy's tower on the island of Pharos. Then the first wave-swept lighthouse, constructed in 1698, represented a major technical breakthrough. The next two hundrred years saw the achievement of the classical form of the lighthouse, with its delicate proportions & immense strength, capable of withstanding the continual pounding of the seas." Contents include: Preface / The Need for Sea-lights / Ancient Sea-lights & Towers / Philanthropists & Speculators / Winstanley's Tower on Eddystone Rock / Rudyerd and Smeaton on Eddystone / The Last of the Amateurs / The Early Nineteenth Century / Heaux de Brehat & Skerryvore / The Age of Engineering Developments / A Lighthouse Build on Sand / Fin de Siecle / Towers of the New World / The Nineteenth Century in America / The American Seaboard Illuminated / Progress in West and East / The Revolution in Construction Methods / The Telescopic Principle / The Light-keeper's World / Sea-lights and Automation / Appendix: A; B / Bibliography / index. Check out the scans. . 1st American Edition 1st Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".