1860-1869. BROCHURE: (ECONOMY). LIGHTHOUSE OF... Lot 164

1860-1869. BROCHURE: (ECONOMY). LIGHTHOUSE OF FORMENTOR. Set of 12 booklets with various documentation on payments, sales, estimates, lists of creditors, receipts, letters and various notes, etc., on the construction work of the famous Faro de Formentor. The lighthouse of Formentor, 188 metres above sea level, was the most complicated lighthouse in the Balearic Islands to build due to its location on the peninsula of Formentor. Construction began in 1857 according to a project by engineer Emili Pou, and it was inaugurated on 30th April 1863. Bilingual text: Catalan and Spanish -Notebook nº 2: 18 documents. Historical review and documents and background passed to the arbitrators who were to lack a project of transaction. -Notebook nº 3: 28 documents. All the sales that have been found to form the references of the Faro Formento are gathered in this booklet. -Booklet 4: 56 pages. Drafts of sales, inflows and outflows. -Notebook nº 5: 33 documents. These are the copies of the brief presented to the referees. -Notebook No. 7: 21 documents. Contract estimates, Incidents of the contract. -Notebook No. 9: 21 documents. 13 receipts, a note referring to the previous receipts. -Notebook nº 10: 16 documents. Notes on drawing-up. -Notebook nº 11: 5 documents. Drafts of the questions and cross-examinations in the following papers. -Notebook 12: 37 documents. Receipts and promissory notes. -Notebook 13: 5 documents. Delivery of the lighthouse, liquidation of the works. -Notebook 14: 11 documents. Crafts, notes and others related to the same. -Notebook without number: It has to go to Formentor's file. Receipts of costs caused in the file of Valle and of the third party that are satisfied by half between the interested parties the heirs of Mr. Rosselló and those of Mr. Villalonga Aguirre.