Memoir upon the illumination and beaconage of the coasts of France / by M. Léonce Reynaud ; translated for the use of the Light-House Board of the United States, by Peter C. Hains.

Main entry:

Reynaud, Léonce, 1803-1880, author.

Title & Author:

Memoir upon the illumination and beaconage of the coasts of France / by M. Léonce Reynaud ; translated for the use of the Light-House Board of the United States, by Peter C. Hains.

Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : Light-House Board of the United States, [1876]
Washington : Government Printing Office, 1876.

Description:

226 pages, 39 leaves of plates (3 folded) : illustrations, plans ; 36 x 29 cm

Notes:
Translation of Mémoire sur l'éclairage et le balisage des côtes de France, excepting chapter 4 of part 1 (a list of lights on the coast of France on January 1, 1864) and chapter 3 of part 2 (a list of buoys and beacons on the coast of France, January 1, 1864) and certain documents which form a sort of appendix to the original volume and which were not deemed necessary to be included.--Note, page [2].

Subject:

Lighthouses France.
Beacons France.
Phares France.
Balises France.
Beacons
Lighthouses
France

Host item:

Engineering Societies Library Collection (Library of Congress)

Added entries:

Hains, Peter C. (Peter Conover), 1840-1921, translator.
United States. Light-House Board, issuing body.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 141128
Call No.: IDX; ID:85-B26156
Status: Available

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