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• The Salt Book: Lobstering, Sea Moss Pudding, Stone Walls, Rum Running, Maple Syrup, Snowshoes, and Other Yankee Doings (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1977), ed. by Pamela Wood (page images at Salt Story Archive)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Ancient and Modern Light-Houses (Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1889), by D. P. Heap (multiple formats at Google)
• A Description and List of the Lighthouses of the World (London: R. H. Laurie, 1861), by Alexander George Findlay (multiple formats at Google)
• Lighthouse Construction and Illumination (London and New York: E. and F. N. Spon, 1881), by Thomas Stevenson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lighthouses and Lightships: A Descriptive and Historical Account of Their Mode of Construction and Organization (New York: C. Scribner and Co., 1870), by W. H. Davenport Adams (multiple formats at Google)
• The Lights and Tides of the World, Including a Description of All the Fog-Signals (fifth edition; London: Imray, Laurie, Norie and Wilson, 1904), by Henry D. Jenkins
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Lightships and Lighthouses (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co.; London: W. Heinemann, 1913), by Frederick A. Talbot (multiple formats at Google)
• The Modern Light-House Service (Washington: GPO, 1889), by Arnold Burges Johnson (multiple formats at Google)
• Our Seamarks: A Plain Account of the Lighthouses, Lightships, Beacons, Buoys, and Fog-Signals Maintaned on Our Coasts for the Guidance of Mariners (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1884), by E. Price Edwards (multiple formats at Google; US acces only)
• A Rudimentary Treatise on the History, Construction, and Illumination of Lighthouses (London: J. Weale, 1850), by Alan Stevenson (multiple formats at Google)
• The Story of Our Lighthouses and Lightships, Descriptive and Historical (London et al.: T. Nelson and Co., 1891), by W. H. Davenport Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Account of the Skerryvore Lighthouse, With Notes on the Illumination of Lighthouses (Edinburgh: A. and C. Black; London: Longman and Co., 1848), by Alan Stevenson (multiple formats at Google)
• Lighthouses: Their History and Romance (New York and Chicago: F. H. Revell Co.; London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1895), by William John Hardy
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Smeaton and Lighthouses: A Popular Biography, With an Historical Introduction and Sequel (London: J. W. Parker, 1844) (multiple formats at Google)
• Lives of the Engineers: Smeaton and Rennie; Harbours, Lighthouses, Bridges (based on the J. Murray popular edition of 1904; with additional recent illustrations and notes), by Samuel Smiles, ed. by Ian Petticrew (illustrated HTML in the UK)

• Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Light-House Board (Washington: GPO, 1886), by United States Light-House Board (multiple formats at Google)

• Report on Use of Acetylene Gas by the Canadian Government as an Illuminant for Aids to Navigation (Washington: GPO, 1907), by Albert Ross (multiple formats at Google)

• Notices of the Western Coast of the United States (revised edition; Washington: Printed by Gideon and Co., 1851), by United States Coast Survey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report on Light-House Construction and Illumination (Chennai: Superintendent, Government Press, 1895), by F. W. Ashpitel
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only

• Report of a Tour of Inspection of European Light-House Establishments, Made in 1873 (Washington: GPO, 1874), by George H. Elliot (multiple formats at Google)

• To the Lighthouse (first published 1927), by Virginia Woolf (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• To the Lighthouse (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1927), by Virginia Woolf (page images at HathiTrust)

• The British Pharos: or, A List of the Lighthouses on the Coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, Descriptive of the Appearance of the Lights at Night, For the Use of Mariners (second edition; Leith: W. Reid and Son, 1831) (multiple formats at Google)
• Lighthouses (Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1865), by David Stevenson (multiple formats at Google)
• Lighthouses: Their History and Romance (New York and Chicago: F. H. Revell Co.; London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1895), by William John Hardy
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Report of a Tour of Inspection of European Light-House Establishments, Made in 1873 (Washington: GPO, 1874), by George H. Elliot (multiple formats at Google)

• Coast Lighting in the Netherlands East Indies: Published by the "Scheepvaart" Service at Batavia on the Occasion of the International Exhibition at San Francisco in 1915 (Weltevreden: Filiaal Albrecht and Co., 1914), by Dutch East Indies Hoofdbureau van Scheepvaart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The British Pharos: or, A List of the Lighthouses on the Coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, Descriptive of the Appearance of the Lights at Night, For the Use of Mariners (second edition; Leith: W. Reid and Son, 1831) (multiple formats at Google)

• Alone in the Lighthouse (Dean's illustrated farthing books #37; London: Dean and Son, ca. 1857) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Light Keepers: A Story of the United States Light-House Service (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1906), by James Otis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Saved at Sea: A Lighthouse Story, by Mrs. O. F. Walton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Jack Straw, Lighthouse Builder (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1915), by Irving Crump, illust. by Leslie Crump
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Experiments on Mr. Babbage's Method of Distinguishing Light-Houses; First Report on Oils; Report on Fog-Signals by Steam (3 reports in 1 volume; Washington: GPO, 1861), by J. H. Alexander (multiple formats at Google)
• Papers on the Comparative Merits of the Catoptric and Dioptric or Catadioptric Systems of Light House Illumination, and Other Subjects Relating to Aids to Navigation (Washington: GPO, 1861) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Course of Six Lectures on the Various Forces of Matter, and Their Relation to Each Other, by Michael Faraday (HTML at Fordham)
• Report on Light-House Construction and Illumination (Chennai: Superintendent, Government Press, 1895), by F. W. Ashpitel
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only

• The American Light-House Guide: With Sailing Directions, for the Use of the Mariner (Washington: W. M. Morrison, 1845), by Robert Mills (multiple formats at Google)
• The American Pharos, or Light-House Guide (Washington: Thompson and Homans, 1832), by Robert Mills (multiple formats at Google)

• Notices of the Western Coast of the United States (revised edition; Washington: Printed by Gideon and Co., 1851), by United States Coast Survey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Records of a Family of Engineers, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text)

• Keepers of the Lights (New York: Greenberg, c1955), by Hans Christian Adamson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compilation of Public Documents and Extracts From Reports and Papers Relating to Light-Houses, Light-Vessels, and Illuminating Apparatus, and to Beacons, Buoys and Fog Signals, 1789 to 1871 (Washington: GPO, 1871), ed. by United States Light-House Board (multiple formats at Google)
• Laws of States Ceding Jurisdiction Over and Relinquishing Title to Light-House Sites (Washington: GPO, 1871), ed. by United States Light-House Board (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Laws of the United States Relating to the Establishment, Support, and Management of the Light-Houses, Light-Vessels, Monuments, Beacons, Spindles, Buoys, and Public Piers of the United States, from August 7, 1789, to March 3, 1855 (Washington: A. O. P. Nicholson, 1855), ed. by United States Light-House Board (multiple formats at Google)
• Lighthouse and Lightships of the United States (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917), by G. R. Putnam (multiple formats at Google)
• Organization and Duties of the Light-House Board, and Rules, Regulations and Instructions, of the Light-House Establishment of the United States, With the Laws and Circulars Relating Thereto (Washington: GPO, 1864), by United States Light-House Board (multiple formats at Google)
• Regulations for the United States Lighthouse Service, 1918 (Washington: GPO, 1918), by United States Lighthouse Service (multiple formats at Google)
• 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), by United States Light-House Board (multiple formats at Google)
• Sentinels Along Our Coast (New York: The Century Co., 1922), by Francis A. Collins (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The United States Lighthouse Service: 1915 (Washington: GPO, 1916), ed. by John Sebastian Conway (multiple formats at Google)
• The United States Lighthouse Service: 1923 (Washington: GPO, 1923), ed. by John Sebastian Conway (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Modern Light-House Service (Washington: GPO, 1889), by Arnold Burges Johnson (multiple formats at Google)

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