CORTHELL, Elmer Lawrence.

A History of the Jetties at the Mouth of the Mississippi River.

Frontis. port. of Eads & 34 plates (some folding). xvi, 383 pp. 8vo, cont. green half-calf & marbled boards (joints repaired, lower outer corner of pp. 71-72 missing with loss of about 20 words), spine gilt. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1880. First edition of this important engineering history. Corthell (1840-1916), was a leading practitioner of engineering in its various fields on two continents for more than fifty years. In 1871, he began his work in connection with the levees along the Mississippi River and was chief engineer of the Sny Island Levee, fifty-one miles in length. He became assistant to James B. Eads in the construction of the jetties at the South Pass mouth of the river. Very good copy. Ex Bibliotheca Mechanica. ❧ D.A.B., II, pp. 456-57.

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