LETTER FROM...TO THE SECRETARY OF WAR, WITH APPENCIDES. by Eads, James B - 1876

Shroud Publishing, LLC, 2011-05-04. Paperback. Good.

Shroud Publishing, LLC, 2011. Paperback. New. 108 pages. 10.00x8.00x0.25 inches.

New Hampshire: Shroud Publishing, 2011. First printing. Paperback. VG+. Octavo. 10" x 8" 106pp. A slick square bound journal. With a slight ding to the rear lower left corner. A Very Good + copy.

Paperback / softback. New.

Century Company. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1884. Magazine. Very good, mildly discolored from age. There is a water stain on the pages edges, not affecting text or photos ; Battles & Leaders of the Civil War; 8 x 11; 8 pages; This is an article/advertisement only from a vintage journal and is not the full journal . .

1880. (CALIFORNIA). EADS, James B. Report of James B. Eads, Consulting Engineer, in Relation to Proposed Improvement to Promote Rapid Drainage, and to Improve the Navigation of the Sacramento River. Sacramento: J.D. Young, Supt. State Printing, 1880. 1st ed. 16pp. Orig. printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly sunned, stamp of California State Mining Bureau on front wrapper, some pencil underling, else very good. .

[NP: American Society of Civil Engineers], 1885. Black lettered grey paperwraps. 24 cm. 39, (1, blank), 5, 5 pp. Five charts, including one folding. Chipping to spine, browning to edges of wraps, else a very good copy. Paper read at a meeting of the society, May 6, 1885. According to an article printed by the Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District [New Orleans: nd], Capt. James Eads, a civil engineer, inventor and shipbuilder from St. Louis set out to devise a jetty system to deepen and expand the branches of the Mississippi River emptying into the Gulf of Mexico at New Orleans. In 1875, he began construction of the jetties and succeeded in "forcing the river to scour out a deeper channel, reaching a 26-foot-depth by late December 1876.... Eads' jetties revived the declining Port of New Orleans and allowed the entire Mississippi Valley to prosper." In this paper Eads defends himself against critics and discusses the merits of his system for constructing jetties to aid in the development of… Read More

New Orleans, LA: Picayune Steam Job Print, 1876. First edition. 8vo. 33 pp. Plan; printed slip at the title page "With the Compliments of the Author." Eads (1820-1887) planned and headed the construction of the great bridge across the Mississippi at St. Louis; "hardly had this work been completed (1874) when Eads proposed to Congress to open one of the mouths of the Mississippi River in the Gulf and maintain the channel," (DAB) a task successfully completed in 1879. Thompson 2519. Original printed purple wrappers (with a plain brown over-wrapper); the Franklin Institute copy with its stamps, ink accession numbers and a bookplate, noting "Presented to the F. Institute by J. B. Eads 10/24/76." Very good.

St. Louis, (MO): Times Print, 1874. First edition. 8vo. 40 pp. Two folding frontispiece maps: "S.W. Pass of the Mississippi" and "Coast Survey Chart Passes of the Mississippi." Eads (1820-1887) planned and headed the construction of the great bridge across the Mississippi at St. Louis; "hardly had this work been completed (1874) when Eads proposed to Congress to open one of the mouths of the Mississippi River in the Gulf and maintain the channel," (DAB) a task successfully completed in 1879. Caption title: "Jetty System Explained." Thompson 2518. Original printed blue wrappers; the Franklin Institute copy with its stamps, ink accession numbers and a bookplate, noting "Presented to the F. Institute by J. B. Eads 10/24/76." Two chips in wrappers (not affecting text), else very good.

[New York]: np, 1876. One of two 1876 editions (another issue or edition printed 25 pages and seven folding charts). 8vo. 24 pp. Eads (1820-1887) planned and headed the construction of the great bridge across the Mississippi at St. Louis; "hardly had this work been completed (1874) when Eads proposed to Congress to open one of the mouths of the Mississippi River in the Gulf and maintain the channel," (DAB) a task successfully completed in 1879. Original printed gray wrappers (sunned, a little chipping and other wear at extremities, lacking rear wrapper); the Franklin Institute copy with its stamps and ink accession numbers. Still a good copy.