17th CENTURY SPECTACULARLY FULLY ILLUSTRATE. FIREWORKS MANUSCRIPT

SPECTACULARLY FULLY ILLUSTRATE. FIREWORKS MANUSCRIPT

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RÄBEL, Andreas. "Kunst Buch von allerhandt rahren undt schönen inventionen so wohl in der Feuerwerckerey Kunst als auch in der Büchsenmeisterey zusammen getragen und verfertiget von Andreas Räbeln. Im Jahr Christi Anno 1671". [4]. 297 leaves (last 138 blanks, but contemporary). Contemporary black leather binding with initials and date. Spine damaged. 11 x 16.5 cm. With a modern ex libris. Some repairs to the fold of the engravings.

$ 32,500.-

An original work of a 17th century pyrotechnician, with the formulas he used to make fireworks. This is a manual how to make and use them, in which

the author betrays secret recipes for the construction of rockets, flares,
bombs. Ingredients are speci fied: camper, antimony, coal, tin, orpiment,
chalk, tree oil, mercury, line oil, brandy, ammonium , arcanuni, chloride,
resin, and a host of other untranslatable elements. The fireworks that
Räbel describes come in all forms and shape. Descriptions follow for the
construction of rocket posts, launchers, and fixtures to be mounted on
buildings, small castles, and castles. Shown in finely colored pen
drawings, labeled with reference numbers and letters and provided with
a scale. Detonators are described, small bombs, smoke-balls, balls of
light, fireballs, storm-balls, big guns, fireworks and hundreds of other instructions. He also narrates the memorable wedding of Emperor Leopold von Habsburg with Margarita Theresa of Spain on December 12, 1666.