Live auction - Lot 625
[Pyrotechnics]
L'art de faire, à peu de frais, les feux d'artifice pour les fêtes de famille. Par M.L.E.A. Avec figures. Troisième édition.
Paris, Audot, 1825
€ 100 / 150
Live bidding (Drouot*) Live bidding (Invaluable*)Bidding is closed
Lot description
8vo: [4]-104 pp.; 10 pl. (marg. damp stain with black mould spots, foxing, ink stains on pp. 7-8 and 53, extensive sm. black spots on p. 56 and pl. facing, tear with lack of text in p. 99, last f. soiled).
Contemp. half dark sheep, marbled paper covers, flat spine (rubbed).
Rare work (1st 1820) illustrated with 10 steel-engraved pl., one fold., representing the setting up of fireworks (even on water). By Augot, printer-publisher, author of books on domestic economy. With a list of the bookshops selling the book.
Ref. Barbier I:288. - Quérard, Sup. Litt., II:715.