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• Fireworks -- Early works to 1800
• France -- Early works to 1800

• Réiovissances de la paix, faites dans la ville de Lyon le 20. mars 1660 (Chez Guillaume Barbier, imprimeur ordinaire du Roy en la place de Confort, & Iacques Iustet aussi imprimeur, 1660), by Claude-François Menestrier, Jacques Justet, Guillaume Barbier, and Nicolas Auroux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reception de tres-chrestien, tres-ivste, et tres-victorievx monarqve Louis XIII. (Par Iaques Roussin, 1623), by Grégoire Huret, Pierre Faber, and Karl Audran (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Artificial Fireworks (3 manuscript volumes; 1785), by John Maskall
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at archive.org
• La Pirotechnia, o Sia, Trattato dei Fuochi d'Artificio (in Italian; Venice: Appresso Gio. Battista Recurti, 1749), by Giuseppe Antonio Alberti, illust. by Giuseppe Filosi
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• Pyrotechnia: or, A Discourse of Artificiall Fire-Works... Whereunto is Annexed a Short Treatise of Geometrie (London: Printed by T. Harper for R. Mab, 1635), by John Babington
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• The Mysteryes of Nature and Art (London: Printed for R. Mab, 1634), by John Bate
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• The mariner's magazine; or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts. Containing, the description and use of the scale of scales; it being a mathematical ruler, that resolves most mathematical conclusions: and likewise the making and use of the crostaff, quadrant, and the quadrat, nocturnals, and other most useful instruments for all artists and navigators ... (Printed by E. Cotes for G. Hurlock [etc.], 1669), by Samuel Sturmy and Philip Stanyerd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pyrothecnie pratique (Chez L. Cellot, & Jombert fils jeune, libraires ..., 1780) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité pratique des feux d'artifice, pour le spectacle et pour la guerre : avec les petits feux de table, et l'artifice à l'usage des théâtres (Chez Firmin Didot, libraire pour les mathématiques, la marine et l'architecture, rue de Thionville, nos. 116 et 1850, 1800), by A. M. Th Morel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mysteryes of natvre and art (For Ralph Mab and are to be sold by Iohn Iackson and Francis Church at the Kings armes in Cheapeside, 1634), by John Bate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité des feux d'artifice pour le spectacle. (Chez Ch. Ant. Jombert ..., 1747), by Amédée François Frézier, Jacques Chardon, Charles-Antoine Jombert, and Charles Nicolas Cochin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inventioni nelle quali si manifestano varij secreti, & vtili auisi a persone di gverra, e per i tempi di piacere (Apresso Seth Viotto, 1579), by Giovanni Battista Isacchi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pratiqve de la gverre : contenant l'vsage de l'artillerie (Chez Geruais Clousier ..., 1650), by Francis Malthus, Gervais Clousier, Jacques Picard, and Jacques Picart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essay sur les feux d'artifice pour le spectacle et pour la guerre (Chez Coustelier ..., 1745), by Jean-Charles Perrinet d'Orval (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lust-Lufft- und FeuerKunst (In Verlegung Matthias Schultes, 1680), by Wolfgang August Mayer, Mattheus Schultes, and Marx Eisenkrämer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Het nieuw tooneel der vuer-werken : waar in getoont werdt, het maken van alderhande soorten van vuer-werken, als kasteelen, slag-swaerden, draeken, starren, vuer-ballen, raderen, water-ballen, vuer-pijlen, voet-soekers, en veel meer andere vuer-werken, die die liefhebbers in het vervolgende sien konnen (By Jan ten Hoorn ..., 1678), by Simon Witgeest and Jan Claesz ten Hoorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Artificial fireworks, improved to the modern practice (Printed for J. Millan, near Whitehall., 1766), by Robert Jones, John Millan, and William Darling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flagello militare : diviso in qvattro parti (Per Nouello de Bonis ..., 1676), by Giovan Battista Martena (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité des feux d'artifice ... (Chez Pierre-François Giffart ..., 1715), by Amédée François Frézier and Franz Ertinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Avvertimenti, et essamini intorno a quelle cose, che richiedono a un perfetto bombardiero (Presso Altobello Salicato, 1580), by Girolamo Cataneo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prattica manvale dell'artiglieria : doue si tratta dell'eccellenza (Per Girolamo Bordoni, e Pietromartire Locarni, 1606), by Luis Collado (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité des fevx artificiels povr la gverre et povr la recreation (Chez Cardin Besongne ..., 1640), by Francis Malthus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutliche Anweisung zur Feuerwerkerey : worinnen alle gebräuchliche Arten der Lust- und Ernstfeuer nebst derselben Verfertigung und denen dazu nötigen Werkzeugen ordentlich und genau beschrieben und mit Kupfern erläutert werden (In Johann Friedrich Gleditschens Buchhandlung, 1757), by J. C. Stövesandt and Anton August Beck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Büchsenmaister Discurs, eine neuerfundene Kugel Taffel (Gedruckt von Christoff Tschorn, 1662), by Georg Schreiber and Christoph Tschorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beschreibung einer newen Büchsenmeisterey (Durch Jonam Saurn ..., 1627), by Joseph Furttenbach, Jacob Custos, and Raphael Custos (page images at HathiTrust)
• Corona e palma militare di artiglieria et fortificationi : nellaquale si tratta dell'inuentione di essa, e dell'operare nelle fattioni da terra e mare, fuochi artificiati da giuoco e guerra, & d'vn nuouo instrumento per misurare distanze : con vn trattato della fortificatione moderna, e delli errori scoperti nelle fortezze antiche : tutto à proposito per detto essercitio dell'artiglieria, con dissegni apparenti & intelligibili (Presso Antonio Bariletti, 1647), by Alessandro Capo Bianco, Antonio Bariletti, and Ezechiel Durante (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grund-Lehren der Artillerie : in welchen, nach der heut zu Tage üblichen Attaque derer Festungen, das Geschütze, als Stücke Mörser und Petarden nicht allein auf das gründlichste beschrieben, sondern auch deren Nutzen und Gebrauch klärlich gezeiget wird : nebst einem deutlichen Unterricht, allerley Arten von Ragetten Wasser-und Böler Kugeln bey unterschiedenen Lust-Feuern, leichtlich zu verfertigen und geschickt zusammen zusetzen : allen Ingenieuren, Büchsen-Meistern u. Liebhabern der Feuer-Wercker-Kunst, nach Anleitung derer allerbesten Autorum, so von dieser Disciplin geschrieben, zu Nutzen aufgesetzt, und mit nöthigen Anmerckungen und vielen Kupffern erkläret (Zufinden bey Johann Herbord Klossen ..., 1723), by Johann Christoph Meinig and Georg Schreiber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experimentirte Kunst-Stücke der Lust-Feuerwerkerey (Strassburg : Verlegts Amand König, Buchhändler, 1771., 1771), by Johann Daniel Blümel, Jonas Lorenz, Amand König, and Michael Höckely (page images at HathiTrust)
• Artificial fire-works : improved to the modern practice, from the minutest to the highest branches, by Robert Jones (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Mysteryes of Nature and Art: Conteined in foure severall Tretises, The first of water workes, The second of Fyer workes, The third of Drawing, Colouring, Painting, and Engraving, The fourth of divers Experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly Collected, and partly of the Authors Peculiar Practice, and Invention, by John Bate (Gutenberg ebook)
• The making of rockets in two parts, the first containing the making of rockets for the meanest capacity, the other to make rockets by a duplicate proposition, to 1000 pound weight or higher / experimentally and mathematically demonstrated, by Robert Anderson. (London : Printed for Robert Morden ..., 1696), by Robert Anderson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The mysteryes of nature, and art conteined in foure severall tretises, the first of water workes the second of fyer workes, the third of drawing, colouring, painting, and engrauing, the fourth of divers experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly collected, and partly of the authors peculiar practice, and invention by I.B. (Imprinted at London : [By Thomas Harper] for Ralph Mab and are to be sold by Iohn Iackson and Francis Church at the Kings armes in Cheapeside, 1634), by John Bate (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Récréation mathématique. English. (London : printed for William Leake, at the signe of the Crown in Fleetstreet, between the two Temple Gates, M D C LIII. [1653]), by William Oughtred (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Traité des feux artificiels pour la guerre, et pour la recreation. English ([London] : Printed [by W. Jones] for Richard Havvkins, and are to be sold at his shop in Chancerie lane neere to Serieants Inne, 1629), by Francis Malthus and Thomas Cecil (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Récréation mathématicque. (Printed at London : By T. Cotes, for Richard Hawkins, dwelling in Chancery Lane, neere the Rowles, 1633), by Hendrick van Etten, Jean Leurechon, Francis Malthus, and William Oughtred (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The mariners magazine, or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts containing the description and use of the scale of scales, it being a mathematical ruler, that resolves most mathematical conclusions, and likewise the making and use of the crostaff, quadrant, and the quadrat, nocturnals, and other most useful instruments for all artists and navigators : the art of navigation, resolved geometrically, instrumentally, and by calculation, and by that late excellent invention of logarithms, in the three principal kinds of sailing : with new tables of the longitude and latitude of the most eminent places ... : together with a discourse of the practick part of navigation ..., a new way of surveying land ..., the art of gauging all sorts of vessels ..., the art of dialling by a gnomical scale ... : whereunto is annexed, an abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, by acts of parliaments appointed, relating to the customs and navigation : also a compendium of fortification, both geometrically and instrumentally / by Capt. Samuel Sturmy. (London : Printed by E. Cotes for G. Hurlock, W. Fisher, E. Thomas, and D. Page ..., 1669), by Samuel Sturmy (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Vollständiges Diarium (Verlegt von Johann David Jung, 1746), by Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and Johann Daniel von Olenschlager (page images at HathiTrust)

• Traité pratique des feux d'artifice, pour le spectacle et pour la guerre : avec les petits feux de table, et l'artifice à l'usage des théâtres (Chez Firmin Didot, libraire pour les mathématiques, la marine et l'architecture, rue de Thionville, nos. 116 et 1850, 1800), by A. M. Th Morel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opera nuova di fortificare, offendere et difendere (Appresso Gio. Battista Bozola, 1564), by Girolamo Cataneo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modelles, artifices de feu, et divers instruments de guerre (Chez Quentin Mareschal ..., 1598), by Joseph Boillot (page images at HathiTrust)
• La pyrotechnie de Hanzelet lorrain, ou sont representez les plus rares & plus appreuuez secrets des machines & des feux artificiels, propres pour assieger, battre, surprende & deffendre toutes places. (Par I. & Gaspard Bernard, 1630), by Jean Appier-Hanzelet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inventioni nelle quali si manifestano varij secreti, & vtili auisi a persone di gverra, e per i tempi di piacere (Apresso Seth Viotto, 1579), by Giovanni Battista Isacchi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pratiqve de la gverre : contenant l'vsage de l'artillerie (Chez Geruais Clousier ..., 1650), by Francis Malthus, Gervais Clousier, Jacques Picard, and Jacques Picart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essay sur les feux d'artifice pour le spectacle et pour la guerre (Chez Coustelier ..., 1745), by Jean-Charles Perrinet d'Orval (page images at HathiTrust)
• Artificial fireworks, improved to the modern practice (Printed for J. Millan, near Whitehall., 1766), by Robert Jones, John Millan, and William Darling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité des fevx artificiels povr la gverre et povr la recreation (Chez Cardin Besongne ..., 1640), by Francis Malthus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutliche Anweisung zur Feuerwerkerey : worinnen alle gebräuchliche Arten der Lust- und Ernstfeuer nebst derselben Verfertigung und denen dazu nötigen Werkzeugen ordentlich und genau beschrieben und mit Kupfern erläutert werden (In Johann Friedrich Gleditschens Buchhandlung, 1757), by J. C. Stövesandt and Anton August Beck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grund-Lehren der Artillerie : in welchen, nach der heut zu Tage üblichen Attaque derer Festungen, das Geschütze, als Stücke Mörser und Petarden nicht allein auf das gründlichste beschrieben, sondern auch deren Nutzen und Gebrauch klärlich gezeiget wird : nebst einem deutlichen Unterricht, allerley Arten von Ragetten Wasser-und Böler Kugeln bey unterschiedenen Lust-Feuern, leichtlich zu verfertigen und geschickt zusammen zusetzen : allen Ingenieuren, Büchsen-Meistern u. Liebhabern der Feuer-Wercker-Kunst, nach Anleitung derer allerbesten Autorum, so von dieser Disciplin geschrieben, zu Nutzen aufgesetzt, und mit nöthigen Anmerckungen und vielen Kupffern erkläret (Zufinden bey Johann Herbord Klossen ..., 1723), by Johann Christoph Meinig and Georg Schreiber (page images at HathiTrust)
• The arte of gunnerie. Wherein is set foorth a number of seruiceable secrets, and practical conclusions, belonging to the art of gunnerie, by arithmeticke skill to be accomplished: both pretie, pleasant, and profitable for all such as are professors of the same facultie. / Compiled by Thomas Smith of Barwicke vpon Tweed souldier. (London : Printed [by Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonby, 1600 [-1601]), by Thomas Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The compleat cannoniere: or, The gunners guide Wherein are set forth exactly the chiefe grounds and principals of the whole art, in a very briefe and compendious forme, never by any set forth in the like nature before. With divers excellent conclusions, both arithmeticall and geometricall belonging thereunto: as also sundry serviceable fireworkes, both for sea and land service. A study delightfull and very usefull for men of the best quality, and imbrac'd by the greatest princes. Written by Iohn Roberts of Weston neere Bathe, Gentleman, practitioner and professor in the arte thereof. (London : Printed by J. Okes, and are to be sold by George Hurlock at his shop in Thames-street neere S. Magnus Church, 1639), by John Roberts (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Die Fackel des Prometheus : künstliches Lust-Feuer, als beede kayserliche Mayestätten Leopold und Eleonora Magdalena Theresia, nach dero zu Passau gehaltenem hochzeitlichen Beylager zu Wienn eingezogen, vor dem Burg-Thor gehalten. (Bey Johann Christoph Cosmerovio ..., 1677), by Tobias Sadeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Von Himmeln entzündete und, durch allgemeinen Zuruff der Erde, sich himmelwerts erschwingende Frolockungs-Flammen zu höchstfeyerlichster Begängnüss dess hochzeitlichen Beylagers, bey der allerdurchleuchtigsten Majestäten Leopoldi I. Römischen Kaysers ... und Margaritae geborner Infantin von Hispanien ... : vollzogen am Fest der Empfängnüss Mariae den 8. Decemb. st. n. 1666 dess Abends, nächst vor der Kayserl. Burg, ausserhalb der Statt Wien, an dem Graben, und der neben selbigem Thor, daran gelegnen Pastey : auffs deutlichste beschrieben, und mit unterschiedlichen zum Werck dienenden Kupfferstücken gezieret und gedruckt. (s.n.], 1667) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Von Himmeln entzindete und durch allgemainen Zuruff der Erde sich himmelwerts erschwingende Frolokhungs Flammen (s.n.], 1666), by Melchior Küsel (page images at HathiTrust)

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