Fire Engines with Water Hoses and the Method of Fighting Fires Now Used in Amsterdam

Van Der Heyden, Jan

Edité par Science History Publications, 1996

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Canton: Science History Publications, 1996. 8vo, 102 p., original black cloth. First edition of this translation of a firefighting treatise written in 1690 by Jan van der Heyden and his son Jan, who were the Fire Masters General of Amsterdam. Fire Engines with Water Hoses and the Method of Fighting Fires Now Used in Amsterdam is the most important source of information about the history of fire fighting until the nineteenth century treatises of James Braidwood, Charles Young, and Eyre Shaw (from the Introduction). NF/NF.

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• Titre: Fire Engines with Water Hoses and the Method of Fighting Fires Now Used in Amsterdam
• Éditeur: Science History Publications
• Date de parution: 1996
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine