BIRINGUCCIO, Vannoccio (1480-1539?). Pirotechnia . Venice: Giouan Padoano, 1550. Second edition of an early and finely illustrated book on metallurgy, including chapters on mining and obscure alchemy. This work was intended to be of use for masters of a wide range of crafts: of the first edition, Dibner states that it ‘was written for the practicing metallurgist, foundryman, dyer, type-founder, glass-maker, and maker of gunpowder, fireworks and chemicals used in warfare.’ Adams B-2081. Quarto (213 x 152mm). Title within woodcut border incorporating pyrotechnic instruments, numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, printer’s device on final leaf, initials (tiny marginal wormtrack in one quire, a few minor spots or stains). 19th-century brown speckled boards, pink spine label lettered in manuscript (extremities rubbed). Provenance : 19th-century bibliographic note in Italian on front pastedown.
BIRINGUCCIO, Vannoccio (1480-1539?). Pirotechnia . Venice: Giouan Padoano, 1550. Second edition of an early and finely illustrated book on metallurgy, including chapters on mining and obscure alchemy. This work was intended to be of use for masters of a wide range of crafts: of the first edition, Dibner states that it ‘was written for the practicing metallurgist, foundryman, dyer, type-founder, glass-maker, and maker of gunpowder, fireworks and chemicals used in warfare.’ Adams B-2081. Quarto (213 x 152mm). Title within woodcut border incorporating pyrotechnic instruments, numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, printer’s device on final leaf, initials (tiny marginal wormtrack in one quire, a few minor spots or stains). 19th-century brown speckled boards, pink spine label lettered in manuscript (extremities rubbed). Provenance : 19th-century bibliographic note in Italian on front pastedown.
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