Fires improv'd: being a new method of building chimneys, so as to prevent their smoaking : in which a small fire, shall warm a room better than a much larger made the common way. With the manner of altering such chimneys as are already built, so that they shall perform the same effects /

Fires improv'd: being a new method of building chimneys, so as to prevent their smoaking : in which a small fire, shall warm a room better than a much larger made the common way. With the manner of altering such chimneys as are already built, so that they shall perform the same effects /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Gauger, Nicolas, approximately 1680-1730
Uniform title:	Mécanique du feu. English
Imprint:	London : Printed for J. Senex and E. Curll, 1715.
Description:	161, [11] p., [9] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Fireplaces. Chimneys. Chimneys. Fireplaces.
Format:	Print Book
Local Note:	University of Chicago Library's copy: pages bound out of order. The University of Chicago Library's copy lacks the publisher's advertisements. Discovery of this item made possible by a gift from Julie and Roger Baskes.
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2886881

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Other authors / contributors:	Desaguliers, J. T. (John Theophilus), 1683-1744. Montagu, Frederick J. F.
Notes:	Most of the work is a translation of: Mécanique du feu. Publisher advertisements: p. [10-11] at end.

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