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1. Natura, philosophia, & ars in concordia. Or, Nature, philosophy, and art in friendship, an essay. In four parts. I. Demonstrating the necessity and practicability of building all manner of houses proof against fire and vermin ... II. An entire new plan of constructing chimnies ... III. Plain methods pointed out, by which smoky chimnies may be effectually cured. IV. Certain and easy directions to all mechanics in wood, how to finish household furniture, and the wainscotting of rooms, so as no vermin can exist therein ... By W. Cauty, cabinet-maker.

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Creator:: Cauty, William, fl. 1757–1780
Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: xvi, 110 p., 1 leaf. fold. plate. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Resolutions of the Associated Architects : with the report of a committee by them appointed to consider the causes of the frequent fires and the best means of preventing the like in future.

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Creator:: Association of Architects (London, England)
Date:: [1793]
Physical Description:: [4], iii, [5]-31 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The manner of securing all sorts of buildings from fire, or, A treatise upon the construction of arches made with bricks and plaister, called flat-arches, and of a roof without timber called a bricked-roof : with the addition of some letters that have passed between the Count of Espie and Peter Wyche, Esq. on this subject : adorned with two copper-plates serving to illustrate the whole work / written in French by Monsieur le comte d'Espie, Knight of the Military Order of St. Lewis, and translated by L. Dutens.

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Creator:: Espié, Félix François, comte d', 1708–1792
Date:: [1756]
Physical Description:: 62 pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts