FREZIER, Amédée François. Traité des feux d’artifice pour le spectacle. Nouvelle édition, toute chan gée, & considérablement augmentée.Paris, Charles−Antoine Jombert, 1747.
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Description
8vo, mm. 195x120; Contemporary full marbled sheepskin binding, spine with 5 ribs adorned in gold, marbled endpapers, red edges; pp. LIV, [2], 496. Frontispiece, 3 Headpieces,
13 plates, all engraved on copper. Label of antiquarian shop of Marseille glued to the first inside cover.
RARE SECOND ÉDITION. Important illustrated work on pyrotechnics and rockets, in this improved and enlarged edition by the author. Frézier traces the history of production and use of fireworks. At the end of the book a list of technical terms. The treaty, originally released in 1706 with eight plates, a huge success: the author decided to prepare this new expanded and corrected version following the publication of an edition pirated in 1741
Chris Philip F 110.5; Quérard III, p. 216; Poggendorff I, 802, per le due edizioni autorizzate
Good specimen.
13 plates, all engraved on copper. Label of antiquarian shop of Marseille glued to the first inside cover.
RARE SECOND ÉDITION. Important illustrated work on pyrotechnics and rockets, in this improved and enlarged edition by the author. Frézier traces the history of production and use of fireworks. At the end of the book a list of technical terms. The treaty, originally released in 1706 with eight plates, a huge success: the author decided to prepare this new expanded and corrected version following the publication of an edition pirated in 1741
Chris Philip F 110.5; Quérard III, p. 216; Poggendorff I, 802, per le due edizioni autorizzate
Good specimen.
