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Moyens de préserver les édifices d'incendies : et d'empêcher le progrès des flammes / par M. Piroux.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1782 Bau (b.w.) Af.333.2 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Piroux, M. 47604
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Fire prevention--France.
- Fire prevention.
- Buildings--Protection--France.
- Buildings.
- Physical Description:
- [8], 168 p., 4 fold. leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Moyens contre les incendies
- Place of Publication:
- Strasbourg : Les fréres Gay, 1782.
- Notes:
- Half title: Moyens contre les incendies.
- "Mémorie qui a remporté le prix de l'Académie royale de Nancy, le 8 mai 1781."
- Signatures: [n][superscript 4]A-K[superscript 8]L[superscript 4][x][superscript 1].
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- Bound with Baumier, Hommage, q.v.; number 5 in table of contents; item 2 in volume. Top of half-title cut away. Modern half sheep over contemporary boards; bound with other items. MS table of contents on flyleaf in B. F. Bache's hand, last item corrected in a different hand; numbers 1- 4 in table of contents; purchased from Dufief, 1801-03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (116); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
- To David Hartley, 17 September 1782, Franklin recommended: "There is a new Book printed this Year at Strasbourg entitled, Moyens de preserver les Édifices d'Incendies, et d'empecher le Progrés des Flammes, par M. Piroux. There are some good Things in it. If you cannot find it at London, I will send it to you" (P 38: u71).
- Retrospective conversion record: RLIN.
- Recon note: title : unreadable?
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