‎"GRATY, ALFRED MARBAIS DU.‎
‎De la Fabrication de la Poudre de Guerre dans la plupart des Pays de L'Europe, suivi d'un apercu sur la Confection des Capsules Fulminantes. ‎

‎Bruxelles, Bols-Wittouck, 1849. 8vo. In a very nice full cloth gift-binding. With following dedication to the Danish King in gilt lettering to front board: ""A / Sa Majesté / Le Roi de Danemark"". With five raised bands with gilt ornamentation to compartments. Gilt frame to front and back board. Light wear to extremities and small paper-label pasted on to lower part of spine, Stamp to verso of front board and title-page, otherwise fine and clean. 125 pp. + folded plate. ‎

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‎Rare first edition, here in a gift-binding to the Danish King, of Graty's work on gunpowder production in various European countries. Catalogue de la bibliothèque du Ministère de la guerre, Volume 1, No. 2564Bibliographie nationale. Dictoinaire des Écrivains Belges, p. 594.Bibliotheca Belgica p. 59. ‎