Corwin, Thomas; et al. Report of the Officers constituting The Light-House Board, convened under instructions from The Secretary of the Treasury, to inquire into the condition of the Light-House establishment of the United States, under the Act of March 3, 1851. Washington: Printed by A. Boyd Hamilton, 1852. First Edition. [11674]
Sometime rebound in brown buckram, 9 x 5 3/4 inches, binding is very good with no problems. Ex library with ink call number to spine, bookplate, several ink stamps within; never had a card pocket. 42 pages of preliminary material consisting of an index to the six-volume series, followed by 760 pages of the report itself. Several text illustrations, plus 42 (of 44) charts/plates, mostly folding and in good condition, a few with some edge-tattering (list below). The folding plates have some tears, mostly near where they are attached to the book, all of which have the small piece of paper that could be reattached to the plate. Good. Hardcover.
32d Congress, 1st Session, Ex. Doc. No. 28. Volume six of the Executive Documents of the Senate, 1851-1852, with general title page and index to the six volumes.
An exhaustive report on United States Light-Houses. Information available nowhere else.
The officers of the Board were Commodore William B. Shurick, U. S. Navy; Commander S. F. Du Pont, U. S. Navy; Brevet Brigadier General Jos. G. Totten, U. S. Corps of Engineers; Lieut. Col. James Kearney, U. S. Top. Engineers; Prof. A. D. Bache, LL.D., Superintendent Coast Survey; and Lieut. Thornton A. Jenkins, U. S. Navy, Secretary.
Plates:
1. Screw-Pile Light-House for the Seven-Feet Knoll, at the Mouth of Patapsco River
2. Detailed Plans and Sections of Parts of a Screw-Pile Light-House for the Seven-Feet Knoll, at the Mouth of Patapsco River
3. Elevation of a Screw-Pile Light-House for the Seven-Feet Knoll, at the Mouth of Patapsco River
4. Elevation of a Light-House & Shaft of Wrought Iron
5. Daboll's Air Whistle, for Horse Power
6. Daboll's Air-Whistle, Hand-Power Machine for Light-Vessels, &c.
7. Daboll's Air Whistle, for Horse Power
8. Revolving Paraboloids for Throwing Sound from a Whistle or other Instrument all around
9. Mechanical Lamp enlarged view of Oil Pumps
10. Mechanical Lamp for Dioptric Lights of first order
11. Clockwork Movement and Burner of Mechanical Lamp
12. Clockwork Movement of Mechanical Lamp
13. Mechanical Lamp enlarged view of Oil Pumps
14. Commission des Phares, Paris, 1851
15. Burner of a Mechanical Lamp, 1st Order. France, Instruction from Light House Service
16. Burners of a Mechanical Lamp, of the 2d and 3d Orders. France, Instruction from Light House Service
17. Burners of Catadioptric Small Lights 4th Order. France, Instruction upon Light House Service
18. Hydraulic Lamp for dioptric Light; Pneumatic Lamp for dioptric Light; Section of a Lenticular Light of the 4th Order with its Lantern, for Harbors, Bays, & Rivers
19. 6 drawings of reflectors
20. 6 drawings of holophotal apparatus
21. Metalic holophotal apparatus
22. Fresnels revolving light
23. Ground plan of reversing light
24. 1st Order of Lights, Fixed Catadioptric Apparatus
25. Fixed Catadioptric Light of the 1st Order
26. Catadioptric Apparatus of the 4th Order
27. Lantern, 1st Order of Lights
28. Plate 1st, Holophotal Lens Apparatus
29. Plate 2d, New Combination of the Lenses of the drum in short Eclipse Lights
30. Plate 4th, Annular Lenses for the purpose of prolonging the flashes in Revolving Lights
31. Plate 5th, Alternating Movement Apparatus
32. Plate 7th, drawings of lanterns
33. Plate 7th, Lanterns for Wheel Houses
34. Elevation of Covesea Skerries Beacon
35. Symbols for Distinguishing Buoys proposed by L. H. Board
36. U. S. Iron Buoy and Sinker; U. S. Spar Buoy
37. Beacon Light
38. Iron Floating Bell Beacon for Hattaras Outer Shoals
39. Cast Iron Sinkers
40. Improved Lantern Revolving Apparatus for a Light Vessel
41. Floating Light Apparatus, Fixed or Revolving Lenses by T. Letorneau, Paris
42. Prince, N. W. Lightship, Liverpool
This entire report of 760 pages plus the folding diagrams pertains exclusively to the light houses.
