+/- 124 various documents (ephemera, iconography) in French, Dutch, German, English.

Printed documents: 1. 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 17 décembre 1770 [...]. Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1771. Sm. 4to: [6] pp. Unbound.-- 2. Décret de la Convention-Nationale, du 5 novembre 1792 [...]. Le service des pompiers de villes [...]. [Paris], Surre fils, [1792]. Sm. 4to: 3 pp.; mss. mention and sign. "Certifié, Escot".-- 3. Verlinden, G.J.J. - Waerschouwinge. Mechelen, Van der Elst, [1789]. 42 x 35 cm. Placard, Mechelen's coat of arms on the top.-- 4. Wassenaer, Carel George, graaf van - Reglement ter voorkominge van brand, op en omtrent den Huyse Twickel [...]. Leiden, A. Bouwman, 1790. Placard, 54 x 45 cm.-- 5-10. 6 placards with instructions about fire prevention in Twickel House. s.l., s.d. +/- 33 x 21 cm. Prov. John Landwehr, 1989 (ms. mention on 1 doc.).-- 11. 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 10 Maart 1801 [...]. S.l., s.n., [1801]. Placard, 32,5 x 20,5 cm.-- 12. 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.-- 13. Du Pré, Edmond, Rousselle, Ch. - Ordonnance concernant les incendies. Du 2 juin 1823. [Mons, 1823]. Sm. 4to: 12 pp. (soiled, cut short). Unbound. Ref. Not in Rousselle, Devillers.-- 14. De verschrikkelijke brand. Welke in den ochtendstond van zondag 19 october 1845, 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.-- 15. Marcellis, Charles - Sur l'incendie de la Bourse d'Anvers du 2 août 1858. Au Commerce d'Anvers. Liège, J. Desoer, 1858. 4to: 18 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 1854 and destroyed by fire in 1858. Ref. De Theux 1138.-- 16-20. 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. 1900-1955, in French and German. 4to, illustrated, mostly in publisher's ill. cover printed in colours.-- 21-25. 5 commercial headed papers, 1817-1913, from the fire brigade of the city of Paris, Usines Beduwé (Liège), Minimax (Brussels), 4to or folio, with mss. inscriptions.-- 26-32. 7 various booklets, prospectuses and sm. placards, 20th c., 8vo, in French, on Paris' fire brigade, prevention against bombing in the years 1930, a firemen's parade (in Portuguese), etc.
Iconography: 1. 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).-- 2. Mourik, B. Brand van 's Lands Zee-Magazyn, den 6 julÿ 1791 te Amsterdam. [Amst.], 1791. 1 engr., 17 x 12 cm, + 2 other vignettes on 1 pl., 9 x 21 cm, same subject, all mounted on white paper leaf.-- 3. 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.-- 4. "La catastrophe du métropolitain, le 10 août [1903]", 2 ff. with b/w ill. from "L'Illustration", 15/08/1903.-- 5-8. 4 "porcelain" cards, Tournai, Vasseur; Ghent, L. Defferrez, [19th c.], various sizes.-- 9-14. 6 prints, 19th-20th c., various sizes. Promotional doc. and engines, one chromolithographed caricature of a fire brigade by Léo Hizore.-- 15. Établissements R. Wasterlain. Series of +/- 15 plans and technical documents of fire engines and pumps. Brussels, 1927-1928. Various sizes, one hand-coloured.-- 16-18. 3 photographic prints, [c. 1930]. Various sizes, sepia or b/w. Fire engine of the city of Verviers (Belgium), Belgian soldier mobilised in 1939 as fireman in Laeken (Brussels), the great fire in San Francisco, 18th April 1906 (panoramic view).-- 19-32. 14 postcards, [1900-1940], some in colours, showing firemen of Belgium (Schaerbeek, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean), Netherlands, United Kingdom.-- 33-82. Series of 50 chromos issued by John Player & Sons, [c. 1930], 6,5 x 3,5 cm.-- 83-92. 10 postage stamps from various countries, 20th c.