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A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Oil painting after Marten de Vos.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Reference: 45101i
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Burnings bewailed: in a sermon, occasioned by the lamentable fire which was in Boston, Octob. 2. 1711. In which the sins which provoke the Lord to kindle fires, are enquired into. By Increase Mather, D.D. [Eight lines of Scripture texts]
Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.Date: 1711
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Richard Newsham, of cloth-fair, London, engineer, 1727. Makes the most useful, substantial, and convenient engines for quenching fires, which carries continual streams with great force. ...
Newsham, Richard, -1744.Date: 1727]
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The Westminster Fire Office : 27, King Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C.2. : A.D. 1717 : this endorsement is to be attached to policy no. ... and is declared to be incorporated with and to form part thereof.
Westminster Fire Office.Date: 1928
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Fire tests with glass : five skylight openings filled in with "Wired Glass" by Messrs. Pilkington Brothers, Limited, St. Helens the Committee's report / [British Fire Prevention Committee].
British Fire Prevention Committee.Date: 1914
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Fire tests with glass : a test with three window openings filled in with "Wired Glass" by Messrs. Pilkington Brothers, Limited, St. Helens the Committee's report / [British Fire Prevention Committee].
British Fire Prevention Committee.Date: 1914
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Fire tests with glass : a test with three window openings filled in with "Wired Glass" by Messrs. Pilkington Brothers, Limited, St. Helens the Committee's report / [British Fire Prevention Committee].
British Fire Prevention Committee.Date: 1914
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The Brussels Exhibition fire : with some suggestions as to safeguards at future temporary exhibitions set out in the form of model regulations / by Edwin O. Sachs.
Sachs, Edwin O.Date: 1911
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Fire tests with textiles : flannelette "ordinary", flannelette "fine finish", art muslin, curtain net, scenic canvas, as also tissue paper and wadding; untreated and treated with Snowdon's Flame-Proofing Solution submitted for test by Snowdon & Co., Ltd., London the Committee's report / [British Fire Prevention Committee].
British Fire Prevention Committee.Date: 1912
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Home fires burning : food, politics, and everyday life in World War I Berlin / Belinda J. Davis.
Davis, Belinda J. (Belinda Joy), 1959-Date: [2000], ©2000
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Richard Newsham, of cloth-fair, London, engineer, (August, 1726.) Makes the most useful, substantial, cheap, and convenient engines for quenching fires, which carry a constant stream with great force. ...
Newsham, Richard, -1744.Date: 1726]
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A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos, 16th century.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Reference: 35332i
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Fire protection of mansions : how to prevent fires and how to extinguish them with practical remarks upon water supply and fire apparatus / by James Compton Merryweather.
Merryweather, James ComptonDate: 1884
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Protect your home from fire / Home Office Public Relations Branch.
Date: 1991
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Fire protection guide on hazardous materials.
National Fire Protection Association.Date: [1975]
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A fire survival guide : what to do if fire breaks out in your home / Home Office Public Relations Branch.
Date: 1991
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Fire tests with fire extinguishers : a special series of experimental tests on 81 portable chemical fire extinguishers particulars of experimental tests and memoranda on the Committee's standards, etc., for portable chemical fire extinguishers / [British Fire Prevention Committee].
British Fire Prevention Committee.Date: 1914
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Flagellum dei, or, A collection of the several fires, plagues, and pestilential diseases that have hapned in London especially, and other parts of this nation from the Norman Conquest to this present, 1668.
Date: 1668
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The Christ Child shooting arrows into the believer's heart to conquer the fires of lust. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
Wierix, Antonie, -1604.Date: [1600?]Reference: 31746i
Part of: Cor Jesu amanti sacrum
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Specification of John Warren : apparatus for promoting the escape of smoke, and for extinguishing fires by the exclusion of air.
Warren, John.Date: 1854
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Economy of coal in house fires, or, how to convert an ordinary fire-grate into a slow combustion stove at a small cost / by T. Pridgin Teale.
Teale, T. Pridgin (Thomas Pridgin), 1831-1923.Date: 1883
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Mr. Lillie's predictions concerning the many lamentable fires which have lately happened : With a full account, not onely of all the great fires in England this present year, 1676. As at Cottenham near Cambridge, Southward, Blanford in Dorsetshire, Witiham by Oxford, Abington in Bark-shire, Nightingale Lane, &c. But also beyond the sea: as at Mosco, where ... dwelling houses were burned down April 22. The cities of Starguard, and ... Brandenburgh in Germany, May 21. And several towns in Burgundy, the French countee, and Picardy, belonging to the French King, consumed in May last. Published for the general satisfaction. With allowance, June 23. 1676. Ro. L'Estrange.
Lilly, William, 1602-1681Date: 1676
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A four armed deity and three priests sit facing twelve sacrificial fires and make offerings to the god of fire, Agni. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 577129i
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An elephant fight, with a few men holding spears with sparkling fires at one end. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 580861i
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Resolutions of the associated architects; With the report of a committee by them appointed to consider the causes of the frequent fires, and the best means of preventing the like in future.
Association of Architects (London, England)Date: 1793]

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A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Oil painting after Marten de Vos.

Burnings bewailed: in a sermon, occasioned by the lamentable fire which was in Boston, Octob. 2. 1711. In which the sins which provoke the Lord to kindle fires, are enquired into. By Increase Mather, D.D. [Eight lines of Scripture texts]

Richard Newsham, of cloth-fair, London, engineer, 1727. Makes the most useful, substantial, and convenient engines for quenching fires, which carries continual streams with great force. ...

The Westminster Fire Office : 27, King Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C.2. : A.D. 1717 : this endorsement is to be attached to policy no. ... and is declared to be incorporated with and to form part thereof.

Fire tests with glass : five skylight openings filled in with "Wired Glass" by Messrs. Pilkington Brothers, Limited, St. Helens the Committee's report / [British Fire Prevention Committee].

Fire tests with glass : a test with three window openings filled in with "Wired Glass" by Messrs. Pilkington Brothers, Limited, St. Helens the Committee's report / [British Fire Prevention Committee].

Fire tests with glass : a test with three window openings filled in with "Wired Glass" by Messrs. Pilkington Brothers, Limited, St. Helens the Committee's report / [British Fire Prevention Committee].

The Brussels Exhibition fire : with some suggestions as to safeguards at future temporary exhibitions set out in the form of model regulations / by Edwin O. Sachs.

Home fires burning : food, politics, and everyday life in World War I Berlin / Belinda J. Davis.

Richard Newsham, of cloth-fair, London, engineer, (August, 1726.) Makes the most useful, substantial, cheap, and convenient engines for quenching fires, which carry a constant stream with great force. ...

A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos, 16th century.

Fire protection of mansions : how to prevent fires and how to extinguish them with practical remarks upon water supply and fire apparatus / by James Compton Merryweather.

Protect your home from fire / Home Office Public Relations Branch.

Fire protection guide on hazardous materials.

A fire survival guide : what to do if fire breaks out in your home / Home Office Public Relations Branch.

Fire tests with fire extinguishers : a special series of experimental tests on 81 portable chemical fire extinguishers particulars of experimental tests and memoranda on the Committee's standards, etc., for portable chemical fire extinguishers / [British Fire Prevention Committee].

Flagellum dei, or, A collection of the several fires, plagues, and pestilential diseases that have hapned in London especially, and other parts of this nation from the Norman Conquest to this present, 1668.

The Christ Child shooting arrows into the believer's heart to conquer the fires of lust. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.

Specification of John Warren : apparatus for promoting the escape of smoke, and for extinguishing fires by the exclusion of air.

Economy of coal in house fires, or, how to convert an ordinary fire-grate into a slow combustion stove at a small cost / by T. Pridgin Teale.

A four armed deity and three priests sit facing twelve sacrificial fires and make offerings to the god of fire, Agni. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.

An elephant fight, with a few men holding spears with sparkling fires at one end. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.

Resolutions of the associated architects; With the report of a committee by them appointed to consider the causes of the frequent fires, and the best means of preventing the like in future.