Appier, La Pyrotechnie, Pont-à-Mousson, 1630, reversed calf

APPIER, JEAN, CALLED HANZELET

La Pyrotechnie... ou sont representes les plus rares & plus appreuvez secrets des machines & des feux artificiels. Pont-à-Mousson: Jean & Gaspard Bernard,

1630

4to (230 x 167mm.), engraved title, numerous engravings in the text, old reversed calf, gilt paper lettering-piece on spine, minor staining and worming, rubbed with minor loss to head of spine

FIRST EDITION of Appier's book on pyrotechnics, though closely based with regard to both text and illustrations on his 1620 work on military machines and fireworks (see lot 12).

LITERATURE:

Cockle 938; Rép. bibl. xviie siècle, vol. X, p.188; USTC 6805289

PROVENANCE:

Thomas Francis Fremantle, armorial bookplate