Fires improv'd
Subtitle: being a new method of building chimneys, so as to prevent their smoaking : in which a small fire, shall warm a room better than a much larger made the common way : with the manner of altering such chimneys as are already built, so that they shall perform the same effects : illustrated with cuts
By: written in French, by monsieur Gauger ; made English and improved, by J.T. Desaguliers ... ; by whom is added, the manner of making coal-fires, as useful this new-way, as the wood-fires propos'd by the French author, explain'd by an additional plate : the whole being suited to the capacity of the meanest work-man. --
Contributors: Desaguliers, J.T. 1683-1744
Publisher: Printed for J. Senex ..., and E. Curll ...
Published: 1715
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
Subjects: Fireplaces.; Chimneys.
Work titles: La mécanique du feu.
Notes: Translation of: La mécanique du feu.

"Appendix.  The translator's additional remarks, with a paper concerning the use of the new chimneys in green-houses": p. 1-4 (4th group).