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réf. Z1-R-014-01322General Books LLC. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. Book is new and unread but may have minor shelf wear. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. General Books LLC unknown
2008réf. SKU0638908Natl Fire Protection Assn 2008-03-15. hardcover. New. 9x5x11. New Textbook Ships with Tracking Natl Fire Protection Assn hardcover
réf. REDLTVFQBX1SIntl Fire Service Training Assn. paperback. Good. in x in x in. Intl Fire Service Training Assn paperback
1980réf. 233751980. Rescue Operations Richardson Texas Fire Department photo archive documenting the sequential order of a small city rescue operation circa 1980s recording municipal crews as they move from arrival and exterior assessment to ladder access hose deployment radio communication breathing apparatus use residential fire suppression interior inspection overhaul and salvage. The archive documents firefighters wearing RFD helmets working from roofs windows ladders burned interiors refuse piles and exterior hose lines showing not just isolated scenes of fire suppression but the step by step process by which a suburban fire department managed an active emergency. Scenes capture fire crews masking up beside engines directing water into smoking structures removing material from upper floors inspecting charred rooms and coordinating around damaged buildings after flame knockdown. Photo archive of 24 glossy silver gelatin photographs 5 by 7 inches Richardson Texas circa 1980s. Firefighters wear leather turnout coats helmets marked RFD portable radios self contained breathing apparatus face masks and reflective striping. Hose streams strike wood siding rooflines and debris piles; ladders reach second story windows and eaves; crews stand on damaged roofing with hose and equipment; command and line personnel confer inside burned rooms and at exterior thresholds. Several scenes show active suppression at night with smoke water spray and charred structural elements surrounding firefighters at close range. Other scenes record quieter stages of the same work including radio use air pack preparation interior inspection and removal of burned material. By the 1980s local fire departments across the United States were increasingly shaped by portable radio communication standardized protective gear air pack training and coordinated incident response even in smaller cities outside major metropolitan departments. This archive captures that transition in practical terms with Richardson firefighters working fires in houses apartment style buildings refuse areas and heavily damaged interiors rather than posed station scenes. All complete and in very good to near fine condition. A grounded record of small town firefighting physical labor technical procedure and public safety work in a rapidly modernizing suburban fire department. unknown
1980réf. 233751980. Rescue Operations Richardson Texas Fire Department photo archive documenting the sequential order of a small city rescue operation circa 1980s recording municipal crews as they move from arrival and exterior assessment to ladder access hose deployment radio communication breathing apparatus use residential fire suppression interior inspection overhaul and salvage. The archive documents firefighters wearing RFD helmets working from roofs windows ladders burned interiors refuse piles and exterior hose lines showing not just isolated scenes of fire suppression but the step by step process by which a suburban fire department managed an active emergency. Scenes capture fire crews masking up beside engines directing water into smoking structures removing material from upper floors inspecting charred rooms and coordinating around damaged buildings after flame knockdown. Photo archive of 24 glossy silver gelatin photographs 5 by 7 inches Richardson Texas circa 1980s. Firefighters wear leather turnout coats helmets marked RFD portable radios self contained breathing apparatus face masks and reflective striping. Hose streams strike wood siding rooflines and debris piles; ladders reach second story windows and eaves; crews stand on damaged roofing with hose and equipment; command and line personnel confer inside burned rooms and at exterior thresholds. Several scenes show active suppression at night with smoke water spray and charred structural elements surrounding firefighters at close range. Other scenes record quieter stages of the same work including radio use air pack preparation interior inspection and removal of burned material. By the 1980s local fire departments across the United States were increasingly shaped by portable radio communication standardized protective gear air pack training and coordinated incident response even in smaller cities outside major metropolitan departments. This archive captures that transition in practical terms with Richardson firefighters working fires in houses apartment style buildings refuse areas and heavily damaged interiors rather than posed station scenes. All complete and in very good to near fine condition. A grounded record of small town firefighting physical labor technical procedure and public safety work in a rapidly modernizing suburban fire department. unknown books
1838réf. 19928Paris, Dépôt de la Librairie Trese, sans date [1838]. 2 tomes in-8 reliés en un volume, demi-basane verte dos lisse, [4]-440 et [4]-448 pages.
1839réf. 19929Paris, Barba, 1839. In-8 de [4]-462 pages, demi-veau cerise, dos à nerfs orné de filets et fleurons dorés et à froid, pièce de titre noire.
1918réf. 642306General Fire Extinguisher Company; Grinnell Co 1918. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Complete run of 36 issues starting with #1 in May 1918 through March 1925 of the company magazine of America's largest manufacturer of automatic sprinkler sytems and fire safety equipment. QUITE RARE. Illustrated in b/w throughout. Bound in two black cloth Emerson binders several covers loose some wear. Bound in is a typed letter signed by the editor. One issue the 'Special Smile Issue' is entirely devoted to smiling employees while another - covering an employee theatrical performance - features employees in blackface. General Fire Extinguisher Company; Grinnell Co paperback
1825réf. 102273Letter sheets 8" x 12" 3 pages plus integral address leaf. Extensive tape repairs to folds mostly archival tape but some regular tape too which has caused a little browning in areas long tear obscures writers signature but partially visible creased normal aging and browning remnant of wax seal; otherwise good or better. The letter is to Boston Mayor Josiah Quincy 1772-1864 a future head of Harvard and served eight years in Congress. It appears after becoming Boston's mayor he sent delegates to New York and Philadelphia to study fire fighting techniques in those cities. The author of this letter read about this mission and sent Mayor Quincy a lengthy letter on the subject. The probable author is Solon Robinson 1803-1880 although his signature is partially obscured by a tear. However on the back page a smudged docketed note identifies him as Solon Robertson or Robinson. Robinson was a writer and would become a well known Indiana pioneer. In any case the author would suggest a far more modern system for fighting fires than the existing practice of engines carrying water to fires which would become useless when the water ran out. he proposed putting lead aqueduct pipes "laid deep underground and leading to every part of the city." While her does not use the term fire hydrants the water would be accessed from locked iron covers that would serve that function. ABN.
1825réf. 102273Letter sheets 8" x 12" 3 pages plus integral address leaf. Extensive tape repairs to folds mostly archival tape but some regular tape too which has caused a little browning in areas long tear obscures writers signature but partially visible creased normal aging and browning remnant of wax seal; otherwise good or better. The letter is to Boston Mayor Josiah Quincy 1772-1864 a future head of Harvard and served eight years in Congress. It appears after becoming Boston's mayor he sent delegates to New York and Philadelphia to study fire fighting techniques in those cities. The author of this letter read about this mission and sent Mayor Quincy a lengthy letter on the subject. The probable author is Solon Robinson 1803-1880 although his signature is partially obscured by a tear. However on the back page a smudged docketed note identifies him as Solon Robertson or Robinson. Robinson was a writer and would become a well known Indiana pioneer. In any case the author would suggest a far more modern system for fighting fires than the existing practice of engines carrying water to fires which would become useless when the water ran out. he proposed putting lead aqueduct pipes "laid deep underground and leading to every part of the city." While her does not use the term fire hydrants the water would be accessed from locked iron covers that would serve that function. ABN. books
2022réf. DADAX1455930717NFPA 2022-12-07. 2023. hardcover. New. 0.00x0.00x0.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. NFPA hardcover
1844réf. 15216Berlin, Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, 1844. Mit 1 lithogr. Frontispiz und zahlreichen Text-Abbildungen in Holzstich.. Lwd.d.Zt. (mit Rückentitel), VII; 304 S., 8° [3 Warenabbildungen]
1970réf. 2091502135419023Industrial Firearms Association 1970. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 55 Industrial Firearms Association paperback
2013réf. NOCT17-9781455754113-651Delmar Cengage Learning 2013-11-26. Hardcover. New. 0x0x0. NEW TEXTBOOK SHIPS WITH EMAILED TRACKING FROM USA Delmar Cengage Learning hardcover
2022réf. SKU0591826National Fire Protection Association 2022-12-07. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Tracking National Fire Protection Association hardcover
1908réf. 232131908. Chelsea fire real photo postcard archive documenting the destruction of civic religious medical and financial institutions in Chelsea outside of Boston Massachusetts after the November 1908 fire one of the most destructive urban fires in early twentieth century New England. This collection displays not only the ruined architecture but on the functions that had to be reestablished after the fire including places of worship schooling banking and medical care. Not only do these images display a developing New England city in ruins but the involvement of the surrounding community that was left displaced to pick up the pieces. Photo archive of 12 silver gelatin real photo postcards each 3" x 5.5" Chelsea Massachusetts circa 1908. The cards show skeletal masonry walls roofless church towers leveled residential blocks ash fields and streets lined with stripped tree trunks and scattered debris. Printed captions identify multiple sites including "Ruins of Unitarian Church Chelsea Mass." "Universalist Church Fourth & Chestnut St." "Ruins of Fay School Chelsea Mass." "Ruins of Public Library" "Central Church from Broadway Chelsea Mass." "Ruins of Williams School & First Universalist Church Chelsea Mass." and "Remains of Frost Hospital." Several views are wide panoramas taken from elevated ground or across open lots showing block after block reduced to foundations and chimneys while others isolate single institutional buildings left standing as shells. Human figures appear throughout as scale markers and witnesses with pedestrians moving through cleared streets and one especially important card showing uniformed cadets and coast artillery guards with rifles outside the Chelsea Savings Bank. The Great Chelsea Fire burned through a substantial section of the city in 1908 and displaced thousands making it one of the most destructive urban fires in New England in its period. These postcards preserve the public facing record created immediately after the disaster when churches schools hospitals libraries and banks were photographed not as isolated ruins but as essential parts of a city whose institutional framework had to be defended and rebuilt. Some edge and corner wear; minor toning. Overall very good condition. A concentrated record of urban destruction emergency security and civic reconstruction in Chelsea Massachusetts. unknown
1908réf. 232131908. Chelsea fire real photo postcard archive documenting the destruction of civic religious medical and financial institutions in Chelsea outside of Boston Massachusetts after the November 1908 fire one of the most destructive urban fires in early twentieth century New England. This collection displays not only the ruined architecture but on the functions that had to be reestablished after the fire including places of worship schooling banking and medical care. Not only do these images display a developing New England city in ruins but the involvement of the surrounding community that was left displaced to pick up the pieces. Photo archive of 12 silver gelatin real photo postcards each 3" x 5.5" Chelsea Massachusetts circa 1908. The cards show skeletal masonry walls roofless church towers leveled residential blocks ash fields and streets lined with stripped tree trunks and scattered debris. Printed captions identify multiple sites including "Ruins of Unitarian Church Chelsea Mass." "Universalist Church Fourth & Chestnut St." "Ruins of Fay School Chelsea Mass." "Ruins of Public Library" "Central Church from Broadway Chelsea Mass." "Ruins of Williams School & First Universalist Church Chelsea Mass." and "Remains of Frost Hospital." Several views are wide panoramas taken from elevated ground or across open lots showing block after block reduced to foundations and chimneys while others isolate single institutional buildings left standing as shells. Human figures appear throughout as scale markers and witnesses with pedestrians moving through cleared streets and one especially important card showing uniformed cadets and coast artillery guards with rifles outside the Chelsea Savings Bank. The Great Chelsea Fire burned through a substantial section of the city in 1908 and displaced thousands making it one of the most destructive urban fires in New England in its period. These postcards preserve the public facing record created immediately after the disaster when churches schools hospitals libraries and banks were photographed not as isolated ruins but as essential parts of a city whose institutional framework had to be defended and rebuilt. Some edge and corner wear; minor toning. Overall very good condition. A concentrated record of urban destruction emergency security and civic reconstruction in Chelsea Massachusetts. unknown books
1839réf. RO20062299BARBA. 3ème édition. 1839. In-12. Relié toilé. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Rousseurs. 462 pages. 1er plat de la couverture brochée, conservé. Titre et filets dorés sur une pièce de titre noire. Dos toilé rouge. Plats marbrés rouges. Petite tache sur le 1er plat.. . . . Classification Dewey : 799.2-Chasse
réf. BN66249Karten des Feuers. 50 farbige Karten und Handbuch. Das Weisheitsorakel der Sioux unknown
1836réf. 026245Paris LIBRAIRIE MOUTARDIER 1836 un volume in-8°, XXIX 422 pp. un feuillet de table mal chiffré 123-124. Reliure en demi-veau vieux rose, dos à nerfs, soulignés de filets dorés, orné du titre, de l'auteur et de guirlandes dorés, petits fers estampés à froid, tranches jaunes mouchetées de rouge, gardes cailloutées, signet. (reliure de l'époque). (rousseurs éparses). Un titre-frontispice gravé par Guyot. Édition originale peu commune. Avec un lexique du vocabulaire du chasseur au chien d'arrêt. RARE.
2023réf. SKU1710154National Fire Protection Association NFPA 2023-09-06. hardcover. Good. 11x8x0. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Tracking National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) hardcover
2023réf. SKU1714871National Fire Protection Association NFPA 2023-09-06. hardcover. New. 11x8x0. New Book Ships with Tracking National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) hardcover
1982réf. 2110502150901892Japan Firefighting Association 1982. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 4 Japan Firefighting Association paperback
1999réf. 2081502111900055Chinese archives 1999. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: B5 hardcover book Chinese archives paperback
1906réf. 85196Hamburg, Koppmann & Cie. 1906. 24 Original-Fotografien von G Koppmann, auf braunem Trägerkarton montiert. (Photogröße ca. 22 x 18 cm, Kartongröße ca. 32 x 25 cm), lose in Folio-OLn.-Mappe.