LAW'S IMPROVED FIRE ESCAPE PATENTED JANUARY 19, 1861. Approved

by the Superintendent of Buildings of the City of New York. Caption title

$350 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

New York: Dodge & Grattan, 1861 . Pictorial broadside with typographical border, some edge tears or chips. 39 x 30.5 cm. Wonderfully illustrated large broadside advertisement, offering city and state rights for sale. This Fire Escape, which consists of a Fire Proof Ladder and Safety Tube combined...is made of chains or wire rope, with iron rungs...to be fastened at both top and bottom, so that by means of a rachet wheel and pall it can be made taut and

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