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Technique - Fireworks - Frezier, Amédée François. Traité des feux d`artifice pour le spectacle. Nouvelle édition, toute changée, & considérablement augmentée. With engraved frontispiece, 3 engraved head vignettes after Cochin and 13 folded copper plates. Paris, Jombert, 1747. LIV p., 1 leaf, 496 p. 20 x 12.5 cm. Contemporary leather binding with spine label and gilt spine (somewhat bumped, capitals with small defects). Third, authoritative edition of the work on fireworks, first published in 1707. - Philip F 110.5 - Lotz p. 76f - Cohen/Ricci sp. 412 - Brunet VI, 10223 - Ornamental Engraving Collection 3301 - "For the knowledge of the art of fireworks in the 18th century the book ... is the most informative publication, indeed the most detailed work considering theory, practice, and history, which had been written until then and which has remained unparalleled up to the latest time ... Frézier ... confines himself ... in his work, which deals only with the fireworks of pleasure, does not limit himself to the purely technical side ... In the 1747 edition of his book he says that for a bonfire an accumulation of several pieces of fireworks is not sufficient if one does not understand how to emphasize their fire effects by means of a comprehensible composition." (Lotz). - Three chapters on the necessary materials, on the different types and effects, fire in the air or on or in water, on the structure and sequence of a firework display, each beginning with a pretty vignette of Cochin. The coppers with individual fireworks, some with large decorative structures. - Frontispiece with small tear at bottom, partly slightly browned. VAT: *
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Technique - Fireworks - Frezier, Amédée François. Traité des feux d`artifice pour le spectacle. Nouvelle édition, toute changée, & considérablement augmentée. With engraved frontispiece, 3 engraved head vignettes after Cochin and 13 folded copper plates. Paris, Jombert, 1747. LIV p., 1 leaf, 496 p. 20 x 12.5 cm. Contemporary leather binding with spine label and gilt spine (somewhat bumped, capitals with small defects). Third, authoritative edition of the work on fireworks, first published in 1707. - Philip F 110.5 - Lotz p. 76f - Cohen/Ricci sp. 412 - Brunet VI, 10223 - Ornamental Engraving Collection 3301 - "For the knowledge of the art of fireworks in the 18th century the book ... is the most informative publication, indeed the most detailed work considering theory, practice, and history, which had been written until then and which has remained unparalleled up to the latest time ... Frézier ... confines himself ... in his work, which deals only with the fireworks of pleasure, does not limit himself to the purely technical side ... In the 1747 edition of his book he says that for a bonfire an accumulation of several pieces of fireworks is not sufficient if one does not understand how to emphasize their fire effects by means of a comprehensible composition." (Lotz). - Three chapters on the necessary materials, on the different types and effects, fire in the air or on or in water, on the structure and sequence of a firework display, each beginning with a pretty vignette of Cochin. The coppers with individual fireworks, some with large decorative structures. - Frontispiece with small tear at bottom, partly slightly browned. VAT: *
