Fireworks 'practicus' (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. London, Ward, Lock, and Tyler, [circa 1873]. Octavo, xx, 198, [38] (advertisements) pages with approximately 50 illustrations and diagrams in the text plus 11 plates containing many more small illustrations (5 folding), and endpaper advertisements. Green cloth blocked in gilt, black, and purple; all edges gilt; covers stained (more heavily on the rear cover) and a little worn; waterstains about the edges of a small number of leaves (generally confined to the margins); some further signs of age and handling; a decent copy. A comprehensive manual of pyrotechnics, 'with one hundred and twenty-four illustrations of forms and diagrams for manufacture and exhibition'. The contemporary label of E.S. Wigg & Son, Booksellers, Adelaide is mounted on the front pastedown.…