PYROTECHNICS

SIMIENOWICZ, CASIMIR.

Vollkommene Geschütz= Feuerwerck= und Büchsenmeisterey= Kunst: hiebevor in lateinischer Spraach beschrieben und mit Fleiss zusammen getragen. Anitzo in die Hochteutsche spraach übersetzet. von Thoma leonhard Beeren. Mit schönen Kupfern, und einem gantzen neuen Theil vermehret durch Daniel Elrich.

Franckfurt am Main, Johann David Zunners, 1676.

Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Tooled in gold and blind on compartments. Titlelabel with lettering. Light wear to top of spine. With the royal monogram of king Frederik V in gold on red background on both covers. Stamp on titlepage. Engraved frontispiece. (14),232,(4); Engraved title-page. 116,(4) pp., 47 fine engraved plates (22 + 25). First title-page cut close and mounted. No loss. Clean and fine. A few marginal annotations on the first leaves in a contemporary hand.

Scarce first German edition of Sieminowitz's "Artis magnae artilleriæ pars prima", but with an addition of a second part by Daniel Elrich. It deals with rockets, pyrotechnics, fire-work and fire-balls. The second part by Elrich deals with the compositions of gun-powder and fire-works.
Lipperheide, 2082.

Order-nr.: 56265