Biringuccio, Vannoccio
PIROTECHNIA.
Basic Books, Inc., New York: 1959
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Translated from the Italian with an Introduction and Notes by Cyril Stanley Smith and Martha Teach Gnudi. Numerous b/w illustrations. xxvi, 477 pp. Blue cloth backed, over gray marbled paper covered boards. Silver lettering to spine. A couple of very slight nicks to boards, else very good. Interior very clean and sound.
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