Franckfurt & Leipzig, Friedrich Rüdigern, 1733. Small 8vo. Later modest hcloth with ms-title on back. Stamp on title. Double-page engraved frontispiece, double-page printed title in red/black. (8),768 pp., 1 folded table and 29 engraved plates (some large and folded). Lacking the pages ""Summarischer=Inhalt"" unpaginated (supplied in photocopy). Marginal dampstaining to the last 10 leaves, otherwise clean.
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Scarce first edition. Dealing with all sorts of Gunnery in 9 parts. (1. Guss=Wesen. 2. Artillerie=Maass=Stabe. 3. Eintheilung des Gebräuchlichen Geschützes. 4. Von allerhand Kaveten. 5. Von dem Schiess=Pulwer. 6. Von den Batterien und Kesseln. 7. Vom Visitiren des Geschlüsses. 8. Vom Fehl=und Seiten=Schiessen. 9. Von allerhand ERrnst=Feuer=wercks Kugeln). - The Author is Augustin Brand although he hides under the name of Saint Julien and calls himself the translator.
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