Up for bid on eBay is the Annual Report
of the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department of the City of New York, 1863.
According to the listing, the book contains 165 pages of "some of the most valuable information that you will ever see from the early volunteer fire department of NYC. It shows number of fires and number of alarms for each of the 8 districts for the previous year (1862). The Chief Engineer was John Decker and all of his assistant engineers are listed along with their occupations and addresses, etc.
"You will go a long way to find one book with as much history and information as you will find here," says the seller.
