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Hanzelet Lorrain. - La Pyrotechnie ou sont representez les p…
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Hanzelet Lorrain. - La Pyrotechnie ou sont representez les p…
See original version (French)
Estimate €450 - €550
Voluntary lot
Description
Hanzelet Lorrain. - La Pyrotechnie ou sont representez les plus rares et plus appreuvez secrets des machines et des feux artificiels, Propres pour assieger battre surprendre et deffendre toutes places. Pont à Mousson, I. et Gaspard Bernard, 1630. 8 pages, contemporary fawn calf, spine with 5 ornamented bands, red edges, boards completely damaged, bookplate - [4 ff.] including engraved title, 264 pp. 133 copper engravings, 14 of which are full-page. Second enlarged edition published ten years after the first. An important work which gives the state of knowledge at the beginning of the 17th century on war machines, several of which are presented for the first time, and fireworks. The author places great emphasis on cannons, but also on harquebuses, rockets, grenades, fire barrels, traps and so on. Among the inventions of Hanzelet (whose real name was Jean Appier) are the organs that herald the machine gun. The work is remarkable for its clarity and precision.
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Ref. : E0636 - 15
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