The Art of Making Fireworks, Improved to the Modern Practice from the Minutest to the Highest Branches: Containing the Plain and easy Directions for Mixing and Preparing the Ingredients, with instructions for making Squibs, Crackers, Serpents, Wheels, Roman Candles, &c. As also for some highly curious Aquatic Fireworks
Published by Derby: Published by Thomas Richardson, [1818]
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.James Arsenault & Company, ABAA
AbeBooks seller since December 7, 2016
Condition: Used
US$ 1,200.00
Quantity: 1 available
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12mo., original printed paperboards, black cloth spine. 24 pp., with hand-colored folding frontis. engraving (8.75" x 7"). An early 19th century pyrotechnical manual, comprising ingredients, recipes, and construction details. With a delightful hand-colored frontispiece depicting all manner of fireworks entertaining observers. OCLC records just five holdings of the Derby edition, as well as holdings for two London editions published in 1825 and 1835. CONDITION: Good, frontispiece recently reinforced, title at head of frontispiece trimmed at time of publication.
Seller Inventory # 2914
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- Title
- The Art of Making Fireworks, Improved to the Modern Practice from the Minutest to the Highest Branches: Containing the Plain and easy Directions for Mixing and Preparing the Ingredients, with instructions for making Squibs, Crackers, Serpents, Wheels, Roman Candles, &c. As also for some highly curious Aquatic Fireworks
- Publisher
- Derby: Published by Thomas Richardson, [1818]
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Seller catalogs
- Illustrated & Color Plate, Science & Technology, Various Rarities
James Arsenault & Company, ABAA
Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
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James Arsenault & Company was established in 1988. Our stock includes fine and rare books in a variety of fields, including Americana & Early American Imprints, Trade Catalogs, Book Arts & Printing History, Early Photography, Plate Books, Literary First Editions, and Signed & Inscribed Books, as well as Autographs & Manuscripts, Maps, Prints, Photographs and Ephemera. We are members in good standing of the ABAA and have exhibited for many years at numerous antiquarian book fairs in the northeast and in California.…
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James Arsenault & Company, ABAA
ME, U.S.A.
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