Firefighting Techniques
The Mkhitarist presses of both Venice and Vienna produced books and pamphlets about secular topics as well as religious ones. The Italian Giovanni Aldini (1762–1834) wrote several works in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries concerning fires and ways to avoid injury while fighting them. This pamphlet appears to be a translation culled from Aldini’s various writings. On the left is a hand-colored engraving of the clothing and objects needed to avoid injury. The title on the right reads, “Brief Information to Avoid Injury in a Fire, Written by the Cavalier Aldini, Which Could be Important for Stampolts‘is [the inhabitants of Istanbul].”
The Mkhitarist presses of both Venice and Vienna produced books and pamphlets about secular topics as well as religious ones. The Italian Giovanni Aldini (1762–1834) wrote several works in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries concerning fires and ways to avoid injury while fighting them. This pamphlet appears to be a translation culled from Aldini’s various writings. On the left is a hand-colored engraving of the clothing and objects needed to avoid injury. The title on the right reads, “Brief Information to Avoid Injury in a Fire, Written by the Cavalier Aldini, Which Could be Important for Stampolts‘is [the inhabitants of Istanbul].”