Fire engines and fire-fighting

by David Burgess-Wise

$35 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

Norwalk, CT: Longmeadow, 1977 . First edition, 4to, pp. 128; profusely illustrated; fine in original yellow cloth, dust-wrapper. Chapters on fires from the burning of Rome to the Great Fire of London, early fire brigades, firemen of London and New York, technological innovations and their impacts, and more. Item #19873

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