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Hiort.Pract.Treatise..Construction..Chimneys,1826

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with author's signature on verso of title as usual, 4 folding hand-coloured aquatint plates, 1826; Supplement to Mr.Hiort's Treatise..., n.d.; Note for the Information of the Public..., 1828, together 3 works in 1 vol., first editions, some light spotting, engraved bookplate of William Hoskins on front pastedown, contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, uncut, rubbed, paper label on spine chipped, [Not in Berlin Kat.], 8vo

***The title continues, "...its utility and safety, its importance in superseding the painful practice of employing climbing-boys...and the advantages to be derived from its rendering those lofty shafts, with their numerous unsightly contrivances at present in use, entirely unnecessary.".

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