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1529. Strassburg. Anonymous: Buchsenmeisterei von Geschoss,
Buchsenpulver, Salpeter und Feuerwerk.
1540. Venice. Vanuccio Biringuccio: De la pirotechnia.
1573. London. Peter Whitehorne: How to make Saltpetre, Gunpowder, etc.
1578. William Bourne: Inventions and Devices.
1579. Leonard Diggs: Stratistico.
1588. London. Cyprian Lucar: Lucar Appendix, collected to shew
the Properties, Office and Dutie of a Gunner, and to teach
him to make and refine artificial Saltpeeter to sublime for Gunpowder,
etc. (annexed to a translation of Tartagalia’s book).
1591. London. Anonymous: A profitable and Necessary Book of
Observations for all those that are burned with the flame of
Gunpowder, etc.
1607. Argentorati (Strassburg) Albertus Magnus: De mirabilibus mundi.
1614. Diego Ufano: Artillery.
c. 1620. W. Eldred: The Gunners Glasse.
1628. Robert Norton: The Gunner.
1629. F. Malthus (Francois de Malthe): Treatise of Artificial Fireworks.
1630. Pont-à-Mousson. Jean Appier, alias Hanzelet: La Pyrotechnie.
1635. London. John Bate: Mysteries of Nature and Art. The
Second Book teaching most plainly and withall most exactly
the composing of all manner of Fireworks for Tryumph and
Recreation.
1635. London. John Babington: Pyrotechnia.
1643. Robert Norton: The Gunners Dialogue.
1648. Worcester, Nathanael Nye: The Art of Gunnery.
1650. Casimir Siemienowitz: Great Art of Artillery. (Translated
into English by George Shelvocke in 1729.)
1698. Hafniae (Copenhagen). (?) Winter: De pulvere Pyrio. Recreation.
1707 & 1747. Paris. Frézier: Traité des Feux d’Artifice.
1710. Frankfort. (?) Sinceri: Salpetersieder und Feuerwerker.
1735. Paris. Jean Baptiste Du-Halde: Description géographique
historique, Chronologique et physique de l’empire de la Chine
et de la Tartarie chinoise.
1740. Paris. Perinet-d’Orval: Essay sur les Feux d’Artifice.
1755. Frankfort. Anonymous: Der Wohlerfahrne Salpetersieder
und Feuerwerker.
1765 & 1776. London. Lieut. Robert Jones: A new Treatise on
Artificial Fireworks.
1801 & 1821. Paris. Claude-Fortuné Ruggieri: Elémens de Pyrotechnie.
1807. Leipsig. Die Pyrotechnie nach der Vorschriften von Claude
Ruggieri und Thomas Morel.
1824. London. G. W. Mortimer: A Manual of Pyrotechny.
1824. Strassburg. J. Ravichio de Peretsdorf: Traité de pyrotechnie
militaire, contenant tous les artifices de guerre en usage en Autriche.
1836. Bruxelles. Capt. Moritz Meyer (translated into French by
Lieut. Hippert): Pyrotechnie Raisonnée.
1845. Madrid. D’Antonio Bermejo: Manual de pirotechnica militar.
1845. Paris. Joseph Toussaint Reinaud and General Ildephonse
Favé: Histoire de l’artillerie. 1ère partie. Du feu grégois
des feu de guerre et des origines de la poudre à canon.
1847. Paris. Joseph Toussaint Reinaud and General Ildephonse
Favé: Controverse à propose de feu grégois. Réponse aux
objections de L. Lalanne.
1850. Breslau. Martin Websky: Schule der Lustfeuerwerkerei.
1854. Paris. F. M. Chertier: Nouvelles recherches sur les feux
d’artifice.
1859. London. Abridgments of the Specifications relating to Fire-Arms, etc.
1864. Philadelphia. G. Dussauce: A Practical Treatise on the
Fabrication of Matches, Gun-Cotton, Coloured Fires and
Fulminating Powders.
1865. London. “Practicus”: Pyrotechny, or The Art of Making Fireworks.
1865. Paris. A. D. & P. Vergnaud: 1ère Partie, Pyrotechnie militaire.
2ième Partie, Pyrotechnie Civile.
1865. London. Richardson & Watts: Chemical Technology.
c. 1870. London. “Practicus”: Manual of Pyrotechny.
1876. Paris. E. Désortiaux: La poudre, les corps explosifs et la
pyrotechnie. Traduction des ouvrages des docteurs Upmann et Meyer.
1878. Paris. A. Lamarre: Nouveau manuel de l’artificier, ou traité
pratique pour la fabrication des feux de couleurs, etc.
1878. Washington. Major James M. Whittemore and Lieut. F.
Heath: Ammunition, Fuses, Primers, Military Pyrotechny, etc.
1878. London. Thomas Kentish: The Pyrotechnists’ Treasury.
1880. London. Dr. W. H. Browne: Practical Firework-Making for
Amateurs.
1882. Paris. Amédée Denisse: Traité pratique complet des feux
d’artifice.
1883. Paris. Paul Tessier: Chimie pyrotechnique, ou traité pratique
des feux colorés.
1884. Hull. Dr. W. H. Browne: Firework Accidents.
1885. Erfurt. Oscar Frey: Die Feuerwerkskunst.
1891. Paris. Marcelin Berthelot: Les compositions incendiares
dans l’antiquité et au moyen age. Le feu grégois et les origines
de la poudre à canon. (Revue des Deux Mondes.)
1893. Trieste. Domenico Antoni: Trattato Teorico—Practico de
Pirotecnia Civile.
1895. London. Oscar Guttman: The Manufacture of Explosives.
1896. London. Warwick Wroth, F.S.A.: The London Pleasure
Gardens of the Eighteenth Century.
1906. Woolwich. Col. J. R. J. Jocelyn: The connection of the
Ordnance Department with National and Royal Fireworks.
1909. London. The Rise and Progress of the British Explosives Industry.
1915. London. Lieut.-Col. H. W. L. Hime: The Origin of Artillery.
Encyclopædias, Periodicals, etc.
1753. Chambers’ Cyclopædia.
1802. English Encyclopædia.
1830. Brewster’s Cyclopædia—MacCullock.
1865. Boys’ Own Volume: Papers on Pyrotechny, “Practicus.”
Encyclopædia Britannica.
1886. The Techno-Chemical Receipt Book. Brannt & Wahl.
1921. Harmsworth Universal Encyclopædia. A. St. H. Brock.