‎SIEMIENOWICZ, Kazimierz‎
‎Volkommene Geschütz-, Feuer-werck- und Büchsenmeisterey-Kunst: hiebevor in Lateinischer Spraach beschrieben ... Anitzo in die Hochdeutsche Spraach übersetzet von T.L. Beeren. Mit Kupffern und einem gantzen neuen Theil vermehret durch D. Elrich.‎

‎Frankfurt, Heinrich Friesen for Johann David Zunner, 1676.‎

Reference : 16598

‎ Première édition en allemand de ce très beau livre illustré du XVIIe siècle. La première partie traite essentiellement de pyrotechnie militaire et récréative. La fabrication des feux d'artifice y tiennent une large place. Livre magnifiquement illustré 2 frontispices gravé et 48 planches hors-texte. Une planche a un rabat imprimé. La seconde partie, relative à l'artillerie, n'est pas de Siemienowicz. Cet officier du Roi de Pologne, né en Lituanie est mort en 1651, en laissant son ouvrage inachevé. Une déchirure à une planche sans manque. Des rousseurs. Bon exemplaire. /// In-folio de frontispice, (16), 232, (4) pp., 22 plates, frontispice, 116, (6) pp., 26 plates. Contemporary stiff velum. //// First edition in German. Illustrated by 2 engraved frontispices and 46 engraved plates (some folding, 4 plates are bound together on part 2, p. 47, whom one is a folding flap). Kazimirz Siemienowicz, Lithuanian-born Lieutenant General of Ordnance in Service to the King of Poland, originally intended to write a two-part "Compleat Art of Artillery" but only the first part was finished before his death. The first part deals with caliber, pyrotechnics, rockets, fire-balls and the building of firework set-pieces. Due to its specialized nature, this treatise became the standard "recipe book" for firework displays and the ultimate, and often plagiarized, authority on military and recreational pyrotechnics for well over a century. "The first part of Daniel Elrich's 1676 translation is a quite faithful rendering of Simiemowicz's original Latin into German. However, Elrich then added new material of his own on the manufacture of saltpeter, the workings of a powder mill, and the construction of elaborate firework set-pieces, including a burning castle. This German edition is opened at illustrations of a rocket making shop and a selection of tools of the trade." (Brown University Library). Some browning. Ties of the binding are partly missing. Complete copy with the rare last folio : "Bericht an den Buchbinder". Very fine copy. /// PLUS DE PHOTOS SUR WWW.LATUDE.NET‎