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HEIDEN, Jan van der, the Elder (1637-1712). Beschryving der nieuwlyks uitgevonden en geoctrejeerde slang-brand-spuiten, en haare wyze van brand-blussen tegenwoordig binnen Amsterdam in gebruik zijnde. Amsterdam: the heirs of Jan van der Heiden, 1735.
2° (441 x 277mm). Engraved title-vignette, 25 engraved plates, 7 double-page, 20 with descriptive text in Dutch and French, woodcut tail-piece and initials. (Last plate mounted on recto of rear free endpaper, occasional light mostly marginal browning and spotting, heavier in title and some text leaves.) Late 18th- or early 19th-century half calf over patterned-paper covered boards, covers with gilt frame with small crowns at corners, gilt spine with green morocco label, green edges (extremities lightly rubbed, lacking front free endpaper). Provenance: Friedrich August II, King of Saxony (1797-1854; bookplate) — Dresden Central Art Library (deaccession stamps).
KING FRIEDRICH AUGUST II'S COPY OF THE ENLARGED SECOND EDITION OF THE FINEST BOOK ON FIRE-FIGHTING. The celebrated Dutch painter Jan van der Heiden, who was also chief fire marshal, describes and illustrates the use of his newly-invented fire-fighting hose and pump, and some of the major conflagrations of the period. The inefficiency of buckets to combat fires was brought home by a series of fierce blazes in Amsterdam in the period 1669-1684 (including the one that destroyed Blaeu's printing works), and consequently van der Heiden constructed a new flexible canvas hose connected to a pump. The latter was powerful enough to prevent freezing of the water in the hose during hard winters, and the book contains a plate showing firemen on ice skates cutting holes in the ice of the frozen canals in order to reach a water supply. The first edition was published in 1690 with 19 plates only; this edition contains an additional 6 plates showing further improvements to the equipment. Cf. Graesse III, p.230-231 (1690 edition).
2° (441 x 277mm). Engraved title-vignette, 25 engraved plates, 7 double-page, 20 with descriptive text in Dutch and French, woodcut tail-piece and initials. (Last plate mounted on recto of rear free endpaper, occasional light mostly marginal browning and spotting, heavier in title and some text leaves.) Late 18th- or early 19th-century half calf over patterned-paper covered boards, covers with gilt frame with small crowns at corners, gilt spine with green morocco label, green edges (extremities lightly rubbed, lacking front free endpaper). Provenance: Friedrich August II, King of Saxony (1797-1854; bookplate) — Dresden Central Art Library (deaccession stamps).
KING FRIEDRICH AUGUST II'S COPY OF THE ENLARGED SECOND EDITION OF THE FINEST BOOK ON FIRE-FIGHTING. The celebrated Dutch painter Jan van der Heiden, who was also chief fire marshal, describes and illustrates the use of his newly-invented fire-fighting hose and pump, and some of the major conflagrations of the period. The inefficiency of buckets to combat fires was brought home by a series of fierce blazes in Amsterdam in the period 1669-1684 (including the one that destroyed Blaeu's printing works), and consequently van der Heiden constructed a new flexible canvas hose connected to a pump. The latter was powerful enough to prevent freezing of the water in the hose during hard winters, and the book contains a plate showing firemen on ice skates cutting holes in the ice of the frozen canals in order to reach a water supply. The first edition was published in 1690 with 19 plates only; this edition contains an additional 6 plates showing further improvements to the equipment. Cf. Graesse III, p.230-231 (1690 edition).
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