‎PYROTECHNICS - (FREZIER, AMEDÉE FRANCOIS). - LARGE PAPER COPY.‎
‎Traité des Feux D'Artifice pour le Spectacle. Nouvelle Edition, Toute changée, & considérablement augmentée. Par M. F*** D.D.F.D.B.‎

‎Paris, Nyon Fils, 1747. 4to. Bound in a fine contemp. full mottled calf. 5 raised bands, richly gilt back. Marbled edges. A paperlabel pasted on lower compartment. Titlepage with a stamp and a small hole after erasing an old name, no loos of text. Engraved frontispiece. LIV,(2),496 pp.13 engraved plates and 3 fine textengravings. Printed on good paper, internally clean and fine with very broad margins so that this work normally have 8vo- size now appears in 4to size (25,5x20 cm.).‎

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‎Second edition of this treatise of fireworks for celebration, the first edition issued in 1706. There was a pirated edition in 1741. Frezier was encouraged by this pirated edition and he issued his second edition, which appeared in 1747 in three different versions by different printers. (Chris Philip F 110.5).‎

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‎[PERRINET d'ORVAL (Jean-Charles)]‎

Reference : 17709

‎Traité des feux d'artifice pour le spectacle. Nouvelle édition toute changée, & considérablement augmentée par M. F***D.B.F.D.B.‎

‎Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1747. 1 vol. in-8°, basane marbrée, dos à nerfs orné de fleurons dorés, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge, encadrement de filets à froid sur les plats, roulette dorée sur les coupes, tranches rouges. Reliure de l'époque, un coin émoussé, qq. petites épidermures. Bel exemplaire. Ex-libris cancellés sur le titre et le faux-titre. Frontispice h.-t, 13 planches h.-t. gravées en taille-douce, et 3 vignettes d'en-tête gravées en taille-douce, liv pp., (1) f., 496 pp.‎


‎Seconde édition entièrement refondue par F. Frezier, officier du Génie et élève de Perrinet d'Orval. La première édition, publiée sous le titre Essai sur les feux d'artifice, avait été imprimée en 1745. C'est le meilleur ouvrage publié au XVIIIe siècle sur ce sujet. Il servit de base aux articles de l'Encyclopédie traitant de la pyrotechnie. Bel exemplaire. Quérard VII, 69; Barbier IV, 780.‎

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