Jan van der Heyden Collection

(GC182)

Item Listing
by
Vicki Principi

Graphic Arts Collection
Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
Princeton University Library
2005

Consists of 18 engraved plates for Heyden's Brandspuiten-boek (fire engine book), co-authored by Jan van der Heiden: Beschryving der nieuwlyks uitgevonden en geotrojeerde slang-brand-spuiten en haare wyze van brand-blussen, tegenwoordig binnen Amsterdam in gebruik zynde, published in Amsterdam by Jan Rieuwertsz, Stads-Drukker, en Boekverkooper, 1690.

Box 1 contents [Entire collection]:
Plate 1 [A. Fire engines in action / B. New pump called a fire engine]
Plate 3 [City Hall fire, 7 July 1652]
Plate 4 [Oude Schans fire, 5 December 1658]
Plate 5 [Laurier Canal sugar refinery fire, 29 December 1669]
Plate 6 [Nieu Island fire, 25 October 1670]
Plate 7 [Ropeworks fire, 12 January 1673]
Plate 8 [Fire started by lightning near Elands Canal, 27 July 1679]
Plate 9 [Ropeworks fire, June 1680]
Plate 10 [Ropeworks after June 1690 fire]
Plate 11 [Nieu Street after January 1682 fire]
Plate 12 [Bruinvis soapery fire, 18 April 1682]
Plate 13 [Goutblom Street after 25 December 1682 fire]
Plate 14 [Heeren Canal after 25-26 April 1683 fire]
Plate 15 [Passeerders Canal turpentine distillery after 17 December 1683 fire]
Plate 16 [Leidse Canal fire, 12 January 1684]
Plate 17 [Leidse Canal after 12 January 1684 fire]
Plate 18 [Bloed Street after 20 July 1684 fire]
Plate 19 [East India Company shipyard at Oostenburg after 14 May 1690 fire]

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