[Cover title]: Mouth of the Mississippi. Jetty System Explained

St. Louis: Times Print, 1874.

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Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 40pp. Two folding maps. Stitched printed blue wrappers. One corner a little bumped and some very faint foxing on the wrappers, very near fine. Inscribed by Eads on the front wrap to Hon. R.S. Hale, Congressman from New York. An important pamphlet, Eads' system resulted in the successful opening of one of the channels in the Delta.

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Item #401853 [Cover title]: Mouth of the Mississippi. Jetty System Explained. James B. EADS.