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Appier's influential pyrotechnic manual View picture(s) 1 APPIER dit HANZELET, Jean. La pyrotechnie de Hanzelet de Lorrain ou sont representez les plus rares & plus appreuvez secrets des machines & des feux artificiels. Pont-à-Mousson, I. & Gaspard Bernard, 1630. 4to. Contemporary limp vellum. With an engraved title-page, numerous etched illustrations (including several full-page) in text, woodcut head- and endpieces and initials. [8], 264 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Fireworks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Pirated pyrotechnics View picture(s) 2 FREZIER, Amadee François. Traité des feux d'artifice ou l'on voit. I. La manière de préparer les matières qui entrent dans la composition des feux d'artifice. II. La méthode de faire & de composer toutes sortes de feux d'artifice. III. Où l'on donne une idée de la conduite des feux de joye. A la Haye, J. Neaulme, 1741. 12mo. Contemporary calf with gilt and title on spine. Frontispiece dated 1707, 3 small illustrations in text and 8 full page plates. IV, XVIII, 394, (6) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Fireworks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Fortification and military architecture, artillery and fireworks View picture(s) 3 GRUBER, Johann Sebastian. Neuer und gründlicher Unterricht, von der heutigen Fortification und Artillerie : in zwey Bücher verfasset : worinnen in dem Ersten bey der Fortification gehandelt wird, was so wol in Auferbauung, als Attaquirung und Defendirung einer Vestung in acht zu nehmen. Nebenst einem kurzen Begriff von dem nöthigsten Stücken der Arithmetic und Geometrie : in dem Andern aber bey der Artillerie wird gewiesen, wie deren gebräuchliche Sorten in allen gebührend zu verfertigen, un so wol off- als defensive zu Wasser und Land, Nachts und Tages, recht und mit Nutzen zu gebrauchen. Nebenst einem Bericht von Zubereitung einiger Ernst-Feuerwerckes-Kugeln. Nürnberg, Johann Hoffmanns seel. Wittib, Engelbert Strecken, Abraham von Werth, 1700. 8vo. Blue paper covered boards. Engraved double-page frontispiece with a.o. a fortification and an explosion, title in red & black, 10 numbered engraved full-page plates & a folding table in the first part and 6 full-page engraved plates (I-VI) in the second part. (6), 290, (2 pp. blank), (6); (2), 316, (2 blank), (7) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Arms & Armour  Fireworks  Fortification  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Splendid ceremonies at the Württemberg court at Stuttgart View picture(s) 4 HULSEN, Esaias von. Aigentliche Wahrhaffte Delineatio(n) unnd Abbildung aller Fürstlichen Auffzüg und Rütterspilen. Bey deß ... Herren Johann Friderichen Herzogen zu Württemberg, und Teck, Graven zu Montpelgart Herren zu Haydenheim, etz ... jungen Printzen und Sohns Herzog Ulrichen wohlangestellterr Fürstlichen Kindtauff und dann bey ... Iro F. G. geliebten Herren Bruoders desz ... Fürsten und Herren, Herren Lüdwigen Friderichen Hertzogen zu Württemberg. etc: Mit der ... Furstin und Fräwlin Fraw Magdalena Elisabetha Landtgräffin ausz Hessen etc: Fürstlichem Beylager und Hochzeytlichem Frewdenfest celebriret und gehalten, in ... Stuetgartt. den 13. 14. 15. 16. unnd 17. Juij anno 1617. (Stuttgart), Esaias von Hulsen, (1618). Oblong 4to. Beautifully bound in contemporary blindstamped pigskin, remnants of ties. Engraved allegorical title and 91 (out of 92: plate 51 is missing) numbered engraved plates, one of which is folding, 78 depicting people in costumes, dressed horses, floats, musicians etc. all taking part in different festivities like a ballet, fireworks and and other plays, and 13 engraved titles announcing the different spectacles, the texts of these titles are printed separately and pasted down, and are not part of the original engravings. As usual, plates 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 have engraved slips of paper pasted down on them with engraved large hearts ornamented with ears and eyes; to see the original engravings the slips of paper have to be lifted. Some of the engravings had been already used for Van Hulsen's 'Festzug' of 1616. 93 lvs. (title, dedication and 91 engravings). Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Fireworks  Germany  Horses & Horsemanship  Splendid Ceremonies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Science and conjuring View picture(s) 5 OZANAM, Jacques. Recreations mathematiques et physiques ... Avec un traité nouveau des horloges elementaires. Paris, Jean Jombert, 1694. 3 parts in 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spines. With arithmetic, diagrams and tables in text, and numerous geometrical, perspectival, technical and scientific illustrations on 64 full-page plates in the main work, and numerous illustrations of parts and details of clocks and watches on 16 full-page plates in the added treatise. [32], 400; [16], 303, [1], 163, [1], [4] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Fireworks  French  Magic & Conjuring  Mathematics  Optics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important military manual on gunnery and fortification View picture(s) 6 SAINT-JULIEN, Antoine de & Augustin BRANDEN. Gründlicher Unterricht von der Theoria und Praxi der heutigen Büchsen-Meisterey, als auch des Ernst-Feuer-Wercks nach der Methode des Welt-berühmten Ingenieurs Mr. de Vauban in Frag und Antwort verfasset, und in neun besondere Theile ordentlich eingetheilt. Frankfurt & Leipzig, Johann Ernst Adelbulner for Johann Friederich Rüdigern, 1713. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum with title in ink on spine, blue painted edges. Double-page engraved frontispiece titled 'Der vollkommene Konstabel', double-page title printed in red and black, one folding woodcut table, 24 folding engraved plates showing how to prepare canons, military utensils, fortifications, etc. of which some with 2 illustrations, several woodcut illustrations and tables in text, woodcut head- and endpieces, woodcut initials. (22), 768 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Artillery  Costumes  Fireworks  Fortification  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic work on artillery View picture(s) 7 STRUENSEE, Carl August. Anfangsgründe der Artillerie. Leipzig & Liegnitz, David Siegert, 1760. 8vo. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf. With 29 numbered engraved plates by Püschel. [32], 796, [16] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Artillery  Fireworks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to entertain your family during the long winter-evenings View picture(s) 8 WITGEEST, Simon (= Willem GOEREE?). Het nieuw vermeerdert natuerlyk toover-boek of speel-tooneel der konsten. Bevattende omtrent 2000 natuerlyke toover-konsten en poetsen, zoo uyt de guychel tas als kaert-spel en tereling ... dienstig tot heerlyk vermaek. Den X. druk. Antwerpen, Petrus Josephus Rymers, 1781. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gilt title and ornament on spine. With engraved frontispiece by Harrewyn and numerous woodcut illustrations in text, 8 of which are full-page. (10), 558, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Fireworks  Games & Pastimes  Magic & Conjuring  Witchcraft  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare work on gunpowder and military pyrotechnics View picture(s) 9 [BÜCHSENMEYSTEREI]. Von Geschoss, Büchsen, Pulver, Salpeter und feurwergken ec. (Colophon: Frankfurt am Main, Chr. Egenolff, March 1531). 4to. Old vellum. With large woodcut illustration on title. 24 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arms & Armour  Chemistry  Fireworks  Militaria  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Nicely illustrated manual on fireworks View picture(s) 10 [PERRINET D'ORVAL, Jean Charles]. Manuel de l'artificier. Second, revised and corrected edition. Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1757. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf with richly gilt decorated spine. Illustrated with 5 folding printed tables and 12 folding plates. [8], 142, [3] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Fireworks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Festivities in the Southern Netherlands View picture(s) 11 [SPLENDID CEREMONIES]. Prael-treyn verrykt door ry-benden, praelwagens, zinne-beelden en andere oppronkingen toegeschikt aen het duyzend-jaerig jubilé van den heldmoedigen martelaer, bisschop, bezonderen apostel ende patroon der stad ende provincie van Mechelen, den heyligen Rumoldus. Mechelen, J.-F. vander Elst, (1775?). 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt flowers and red title label lettered in gold. Small engraved coat-of-arms in text, engraved vignette on p. 1, and 16 engraved plates of which 14 are large and folding, all depicting floats and other scenes as they were represented in the parade. (12), 34 (= 38 pp., i.e. p. 1-18, 15-34). Full description >> Related Subjects: Americana  Belgicana  Fireworks  Illustrated Books  Jesuits  Splendid Ceremonies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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