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PLATE 1. (Figs. 1 to 16)


A
MANUAL
OF
PYROTECHNY;

OR,

A FAMILIAR SYSTEM

OF

Recreative Fire-Works.


BY G. W. MORTIMER.


Admotam rapiunt vivacia sulfura flammam.
Ovid.



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