‎"(SYLVIUS NIMROD, FRIEDRICH Hzg. zu WÜRTTEMBERG, TECK und ÖLS).‎
‎Vollkommene Unterweisung, wie Raketen, Feuer=Wasser=Sturm=Kugeln, Granaten, Pech=Sturm=Krantze, und allerhand Luft und Ernsthaffte Feuer=wercke zubereiten. Sampt gründlicher Anleitung zur Artillerie: als vom Mortier, von allerhand groben und kleinen G... - [GUNNERY AND PYROTECHNICS]‎

‎Osnabrück, J. G. Schwänders Tilman Bucholtz, 1660. Folio. Fine recent hvellum in old style made of old materials. Titlelabel in leather on spine with gilt lettering. The htitle reads: ""Praxis Artolloriae Pyrotechnicæ"". Htitle,(6),71,(1) pp.. and 51 engraved plates with 117 figs. (numb. 1-51 of which 2 are unnumb.). One leaf lacks (pp. 17/18) and p. 17 is present in cont. handwriting, but the whole leaf supplied in a fine facsimile on old paper. 2 plates a bit shaved and frayed in margin. Slight browning to htitle, a few minor brownspots. A good copy.‎

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‎Scarce second edition. The publisher tells us in the postscript that the book, published 1657, was in much demand and that it was unobtainable, so he was requested by a gentleman (Einen vornehmen Herr) to republish it. This second edition came out without the authors name. It is divided in 2 parts. The first part mainly deals with all kinds of recreative fireworks but also with the making of rockets, fire-water-and storm balls, grenades, pitch, storm wheels and receipts for gunpowder. The second part deals with gunnery and artillery (Ander der Artollery). - Chris Philip S 310.2 - Not in Rumpf and Cockle.‎