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

All titles

• 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
• M'ecanique du feu. English

People / Organizations

• Nicolas Gauger (Author)
• Edmund Curll ("printed for")

Imprint

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] The second edition, with an appendix, ..; ..

Publication year

1736

ESTC No.

T111906

Grub Street ID

163967

Description

[2],vi,[8],158,[2]p., plates ; 8°.

Note

With frontis. and 10 numbered plates

With a final advertisement leaf

Price from imprint: Price 4 s.

Uncontrolled note

According to NUC, orig. French title was La mécanique du feu (not mechanique de feu, as at foot of p.i)