Fires improved : or, a new method of building chimnies, so as to prevent their smoking. In which A Small Fire, shall warm a Room much better than a Large One made the Common Way. And the Method of altering such Chimnies as are already Built, so that they shall perform the same Effects. By Monsieur Gauger. Made English from the French original. By J. T. Desaguliers, L. L.D. and F.R.S.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gauger, Nicolas, ca. 1680-1730.

Standardized Title:

Mécanique du feu. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chimneys.

Fireplaces.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2],vi,[8],158,[2]p., plates )

Edition:

The second edition, with an appendix, ..

Other Title:

Fires improved

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Senex, at the Globe, against St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleetstreet; and E. Curll, at Pope's Head, in Rose-Street, Covens-Garden, [1736]

Notes:

With frontis. and 10 numbered plates.

With a final advertisement leaf.

Price from imprint: Price 4 s.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T111906.

OCLC:

642279689