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+/- various documents (ephemera, iconography) in French, Dutch, German, English. [18th-20th c.] Printed documents: Lettres patentes du Roi, concernant l'entretien & renouvellement des trentes pompes servant aux incendies, & le payement & la solde des garde-pompes. Donné à Versailles le décembre [...]. Paris, Imprimerie royale, Sm. 4to: [pp. Unbound.-- Décret de la Convention-Nationale, du 5 novembre [...]. Le service des pompiers de villes [...]. [Paris], Surre fils, [1792]. Sm. 4to: 3 pp.; mss. mention and sign. "Certifié, Escot".-- Verlinden, G.J.J. - Waerschouwinge. Mechelen, Van der Elst, [1789]. x cm. Placard, Mechelen's coat of arms on the top.-- Wassenaer, Carel George, graaf van - Reglement ter voorkominge van brand, op en omtrent den Huyse Twickel [...]. Leiden, A. Bouwman, Placard, x cm.-- 5-6 placards with instructions about fire prevention in Twickel House. s.l., s.d. +/- x cm. Prov. John Landwehr, (ms. mention on 1 doc.).-- Hoeth, A.W., Hultman, C.G. - Voor het land. Gelykheid, vryheid, broederschap. Extract uit het register der resolutien van het departementaal bestuur van de Delf genomen op den Maart [...]. S.l., s.n., [1801]. Placard, 32,5 x 20,5 cm.-- De Wellens, L., Cuylen, P. - Mesures supplétoires au service actuel des incendies. [Brussels, 1823]. 8vo: 7 pp. (foxing). Unbound. Decree of the city of Brussels, in French and Dutch.-- Du Pré, Edmond, Rousselle, Ch. - Ordonnance concernant les incendies. Du 2 juin [Mons, 1823]. Sm. 4to: pp. (soiled, cut short). Unbound. Ref. Not in Rousselle, Devillers.-- De verschrikkelijke brand. Welke in den ochtendstond van zondag october te Amsterdam in de suiker-fabriek van den heere J.H. Rupe en Zn, heeft plaats gehad. Amsterdam, F.G.L. Holst, [1845]. 8vo: 4 pp. (stains, folds, sm. tears). Large woodcut vignette on the top.-- Marcellis, Charles - Sur l'incendie de la Bourse d'Anvers du 2 août Au Commerce d'Anvers. Liège, J. Desoer, 4to: pp.; 4 fold. pl. (frayed edges). Sewed, original printed cover on yellow paper (soiled, lacks on back cover). Conference by the builder of the "Handelsbeurs" inaugurated in and destroyed by fire in Ref. De Theux 1138.-- 16-5 commercial prints from companies specialised in fire prevention and fighting equipment: L. Gugumus (Paris), R. Wasterlain (Brussels), C. Lorenz (Forst, Germany), Carl Metz (Karlsruhe), c. 1900-in French and German. 4to, illustrated, mostly in publisher's ill. cover printed in colours.-- 21-5 commercial headed papers, 1817-from the fire brigade of the city of Paris, Usines Beduwé (Liège), Minimax (Brussels), 4to or folio, with mss. inscriptions.-- 26-7 various booklets, prospectuses and sm. placards, 20th c., 8vo, in French, on Paris' fire brigade, prevention against bombing in the years a firemen's parade (in Portuguese), etc. Iconography: Honderd drie en dertigste tafereel. s.l., s.d. [18th c.]. 1 f. 12mo from a book, with one woodcut and a poem in Dutch to the glory of Jan van der Heyden (1637-1712), inventor of a famous water pumping mechanism (1 facsimile joined).-- Mourik, B. Brand van 's Lands Zee-Magazyn, den 6 julÿ te Amsterdam. [Amst.], 1 engr., x cm, + 2 other vignettes on 1 pl., 9 x cm, same subject, all mounted on white paper leaf.-- Un incendie en province. Jarville-Nancy, Imageries Réunies, [c. 1900]. Hand-coloured plate, 39,5 x 27,5 cm (brown.). Mounted on blank leaf. From the coll. "Images amusantes", No. 1043.-- "La catastrophe du métropolitain, le août [1903]", 2 ff. with b/w ill. from "L'Illustration", 15/08/1903.-- 5-4 "porcelain" cards, Tournai, Vasseur; Ghent, L. Defferrez, [19th c.], various sizes.-- 9-6 prints, 19th-20th c., various sizes. Promotional doc. and engines, one chromolithographed caricature of a fire brigade by Léo Hizore.-- Établissements R. Wasterlain. Series of +/- plans and technical documents of fire engines and pumps. Brussels, 1927-Various sizes, one hand-coloured.-- 16-3 photographic prints, [c. 1930]. Various sizes, sepia or b/w. Fire engine of the city of Verviers (Belgium)