Boillot, Artifices de feu, Strassburg, 1603, later half calf

BOILLOT, JOSEPH

Artifices de feu... Künstlich Feurwerck und Kriegs Instrumenta [translated by Johannes Brantz]. Strassburg: Anton Bertram, 1603

folio (293 x 193mm.), title within engraved border, numerous engravings in the text, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces, German and French parallel text, nineteenth-century calf-backed boards, new endpapers, staining, small paper flaw to leaf B1, rubbed

First German edition of this early work on pyrotechnics (see lot 44).

LITERATURE:

VD17 3:312613N; cf. Cockle 933

PROVENANCE:

"Justus Laigneau, Doctor Medicus Patavinus", signature to title