FURTTENBACH, Joseph.

Augsburg, Johann Schultes, 1643. Folio. Folding engr. extra title,+ (14),+ 151 pp.+ 45 engraved plates, of which 12 are folding [numbered 1-44,+ one unnumbered]. Title printed in red and black within frame. Small holes pp. 17-21 with loss of letters, one plate (nr. 43) with paper repair. Bound after the title page is a blank leaf with ink annotations. Lacks engraved portrait. Bound together with:SCHREIBERN, Georg. Büchsenmeister-Discurs; Eine neuerfundene Kugel-Tafel, Abtheilung der Stück, Laveten und Visir-Stäbe, sambt einem wohlbestellten Feuerwercks-Laboratorio, zu Schimpf und Ernst, Vielerley neuerfundenen Wasser- und Böller-kugeln; Abtheilungen der Böller, sambt ihren Laveten, Quadranten, und Racheten-Stöcken, nebst etlich Funffzig Kupfferplatten, und einem ausführlichen Register zu ende dieses Buches beygefüget, beschrieben durch GeorgeSchreibern, Bürgern und Zeugwartern in Brieg. Breslau, Christoph Tschorn, (1671) Folio. Engr. extra title,+ engr. portrait,+ (28),+ 117,+ (5) pp.+ 70 engraved plates, of which 2 are folding,+ 1 folding printed tab. Title printed in red and black. The text pages with browning and spotting and several with paper repairs in the margin, text losses on page 5-6 and 41.Contemporary vellum, spine with gilt title, red edges, large hole on lower spine and part on front board. Traces of removed bookplate. both title pages with ”Ex libris J. C. Pfeiffer” in ink, crosed over on the first title page and with ”1749” added on the second. VD17 23:230397Z & 1:685876C. Sammelband with two works on gunnery, artillery, ballistics and fireworks. ”Büchsenmeisterey-Schul” by Joseph Furttenbach (1591-1667) is the revised second edition. It was first published as ”Halinitro-Pyrobolia” in 1627. It is bound together will a well used and repaired copy of the third edition of Georg Schreibern’s ”Büchsenmeister-Discurs”, which was first published in 1656 and with a reissue in 1662. All editions of Schreibern are rare and the number of plates seems to vary. The engravings are numbered 1-77 as in the index. It contains a new title page on page 41 ”Feuerwerks Laboratorium” 1671. ”This ”Master Gunner” discourse is an important work [...], profusely illustrated by etchings of Fireworks of both kinds. A Conversation between a Zeugmeister (Artillery Officer), who wants to know all about everything, and the Buchsenmeister (Master Gunner), who is only too anxious to unburden himself of his stores of knowledge, runs through the book, and his explanations are made clear by the plentifully-interspersed illustrations” (Hodgkin Rariora III, p. 43).