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 : illustrated with cuts / written in French, by monsieur Gauger ; made English and improved, by J.T. Desaguliers ... ; by whom is added, the manner of making coal-fires, as useful this new-way, as the wood-fires propos'd by the French author, explain'd by an additional plate : the whole being suited to the capacity of the meanest work-man.

Main entry:

Gauger, Nicolas, 1680?-1730.

Title & Author:

Publication:

London : Printed for J. Senex ..., and E. Curll ..., 1715.

Description:

[6], 161, [9], 4, [2] pages, 9 folded leaves of plates ([2] pages at end advertisement) : illustrations

Notes:
Translation of: La mécanique du feu.
"Appendix. The translator's additional remarks, with a paper concerning the use of the new chimneys in green-houses": pages 1-4 (4th group).
Most of the work is a translation of: Mécanique du feu.
Decorated borders and tail-pieces throughout text; some decorated initials.
Advertisements on p. [10]-[11] of last group.
Errata on p. [6] of 1st group.

Subject:

Fireplaces.
Chimneys.
Cheminées d'appartement.
Cheminées.
fireplaces.
chimneys (architectural elements)

Added entries:

Desaguliers, J. T. (John Theophilus), 1683-1744.
Desaguliers, John Theophilus, 1683-1744.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 81785
Call No.: W6003
Status: Available

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