Author: GENNETÉ, (CL.L.)
Title: Nouvelle construction de cheminées, qui garantit du feu, & de la fumée, á l' épreuve des vents, du soleil, de la pluie, & des autres causes, qui font fumer les cheminées ordinaires.
Description: Liege, Chez F.J. Desoer, Imprimeur & Libraire sous la Tour Saint Lambert, 1760. 8vo. W. 13 fold. engr. pls. [engr. by Joseph Dreppe, 1737 - 1810] Contemp. full mottl. clf., spine gilt. (142, II pp.). (2 small libr. st. on printed title.). The author' s invention received the approval of the French Academy of Science, which declared it to be 'nouvelle et bien imaginée.' Rare work on chimneys, their construction and function. Second edition [originally published Paris, 1759]. Genneté [1706 - 1782] was the most important phycisist of Emperor Francis I. De Theux 581 - 582: Berlin Kat., 3842: Kress Library, 5857:

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