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1343 FEUERWERCKEREI. - Biringuccio, Vanuccio. Pirotechnia, Nella quale si tratta non solo della diuersità delle Minere, ma anco di quanto si ricerca alla pratica di esse, e che s'appartiene all'arte della fusione, ò getto de Metalli. Far Campane, Artigliarie, fuochi artificiati, & altre diuerse cose vtilissime... Bologna, Gioseffo Longhi, (1678). 8°. 16 Bll., 630 SS., 1 w. Bl., mit 84 Holzschn. Pgt. d. 19. Jhdts. mit Rverg. u. Rsch. Schätzpreis: (1.500,- €) / (2.175,- $) BMGC III, 480, 820; Ferchl 48; Hodgkin, Rariora III, Fireworks S. 3; vgl. Darmstaedter 1540, Honeyman 335f., Hoover 129ff., Mortimer 66 u. Poggend. I, 200. - "This is the first comprehensive book on the fire-using arts and one of the classics in the history of science and technology. Biringuccio was born in Siena, operated mines and forges and mints, and cast cannon and built fortification for some of the leading families of the Italian republics. He stressed the use of minerals and metals - their alloying, and art of casting, and he gave the earliest account of typecasting and the making of statues, medallions, and bells. Agricola freely borrowed several sections of the Pirotechnia for use in his later work" (Hoover). Die Erstausgabe war 1540 in Venedig erschienen. - Gering gebräunt u. stockfl., anfangs kl. Braunfl. im Bug oben, SS. 627-630 im w. Längsrand beschn., einige SS. mit Anstreichungen, vereinz. kl. Randausbesserungen. Hübsch gebunden. Deckel aufgebogen. Nachverkaufs-Preis: [1.200,- €] / [1.740,- $] " Jahr Haus Auktion Preis Einband Zustand 1986 CHRI 3005/45 750,- Pgt. d. 19. Jhdts. = Expl. H&H 128. - £ 260 1989 SWAN 0405/399 640,- Alt Pgt. - $ 375
1343 FEUERWERCKEREI. - Biringuccio, Vanuccio. Pirotechnia, Nella quale si tratta non solo della diuersità delle Minere, ma anco di quanto si ricerca alla pratica di esse, e che s'appartiene all'arte della fusione, ò getto de Metalli. Far Campane, Artigliarie, fuochi artificiati, & altre diuerse cose vtilissime... Bologna, Gioseffo Longhi, (1678). 8°. 16 Bll., 630 SS., 1 w. Bl., mit 84 Holzschn. Pgt. d. 19. Jhdts. mit Rverg. u. Rsch. Schätzpreis: (1.500,- €) / (2.175,- $) BMGC III, 480, 820; Ferchl 48; Hodgkin, Rariora III, Fireworks S. 3; vgl. Darmstaedter 1540, Honeyman 335f., Hoover 129ff., Mortimer 66 u. Poggend. I, 200. - "This is the first comprehensive book on the fire-using arts and one of the classics in the history of science and technology. Biringuccio was born in Siena, operated mines and forges and mints, and cast cannon and built fortification for some of the leading families of the Italian republics. He stressed the use of minerals and metals - their alloying, and art of casting, and he gave the earliest account of typecasting and the making of statues, medallions, and bells. Agricola freely borrowed several sections of the Pirotechnia for use in his later work" (Hoover). Die Erstausgabe war 1540 in Venedig erschienen. - Gering gebräunt u. stockfl., anfangs kl. Braunfl. im Bug oben, SS. 627-630 im w. Längsrand beschn., einige SS. mit Anstreichungen, vereinz. kl. Randausbesserungen. Hübsch gebunden. Deckel aufgebogen. Nachverkaufs-Preis: [1.200,- €] / [1.740,- $] " Jahr Haus Auktion Preis Einband Zustand 1986 CHRI 3005/45 750,- Pgt. d. 19. Jhdts. = Expl. H&H 128. - £ 260 1989 SWAN 0405/399 640,- Alt Pgt. - $ 375