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GAUGER (Nicolas). LA MECHANIQUE DU FEU, ou l'art d'en augmenter les effets, & d'en diminuer la dépense. Containing the Treaty of new chimneys which heat more than the ordinary Chimneys, & which are not prone to smoke... Cosmopoli (Amsterdam), no name, 1714. In-12 of [2]-10-267-[9] pages, light-coloured basane, spine ribbed and decorated, red tr. (period binding). This would be the first French treatise of caminology; illustrated with a frontispiece and 12 folding copper-engraved plates, it shows the various stages of chimney construction. Pages heavily scorched..., one cap missing.
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GAUGER (Nicolas). LA MECHANIQUE DU FEU, ou l'art d'en augmenter les effets, & d'en diminuer la dépense. Containing the Treaty of new chimneys which heat more than the ordinary Chimneys, & which are not prone to smoke... Cosmopoli (Amsterdam), no name, 1714. In-12 of [2]-10-267-[9] pages, light-coloured basane, spine ribbed and decorated, red tr. (period binding). This would be the first French treatise of caminology; illustrated with a frontispiece and 12 folding copper-engraved plates, it shows the various stages of chimney construction. Pages heavily scorched..., one cap missing.
