Artificial fire-works

Improved to the Modern Practice,
From the Minutest to the Highest Branches;
CONTAINING
With all their Ingredients, Compositions, Preparations, Machines, Moulds, and Manner to make them, refining Salt-Petre, and to extract it from damaged Gunpowder, &c.
With about 100 of the principal Figures beautifully engraved on Copper Plates.
The SECOND EDITION.
With the Addition of many new and beautiful Fire-Works, and 3 large Copper-Plates.
Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery.
LONDON:
Printed for J. Millan, near Whitehall. (Price 7 s , 6 d. )
Mdcclxvi .
TO SIR CHARLES FREDERICK, KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE BATH, SURVEYOR GENERAL OF HIS MAJESTY’S ORDNANCE, AND FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, AT LONDON. THIS TREATISE ON ARTIFICIAL FIREWORKS IS HUMBLY INSCRIBED BY HIS MOST OBEDIENT