Author: GUTTMANN (Oscar)
Title: Monumenta Pulveris Pyrii. Reproductions of Ancient Pictures Concerning the History of Gunpowder, with Explanatory Notes.
Description: London: Printed for the Author at the Artists Press, 1906. First edition, folio (335 x 270 mm), [10], 34, [2], [4, index]pp., followed by 102 plates on 94 leaves, limited to 270 copies, text in English, German and French, plates, tooled crimson morocco, spine lettered in gilt, over wooden boards with two metal fore-edge clasps, t.e.g., others uncut, a nice copy. Privately printed on hand-made paper, each leaf with the author's water mark. A comprehensive work on early explosives, gunpowder, and fireworks.

Keywords: FIREWORKS