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The art of making fireworks, detonating balls, &c. : Containing plain and easy directions for mixing and preparing the ingredients, and making and finishing the most simple devices in this ingenious art: together with how to make and fill air and fire balloons ; and how to prepare and make detonating balls, spiders, segars, boots and shoes, Waterloo crackers, &c. / the whole written expressly for this work, containing many devices never before published, by Christopher Grotz.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection TP300 .G76 1819
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1819 Grotz
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grotz, Christopher.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fireworks.
- Physical Description:
- 26 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed and sold by Dean and Munday, 1819.
- Notes:
- Signatures: B-C⁶.
- Color frontispiece by I.R. Cruikshank.
- Front wrap bound in.
- Local Notes:
- Smith Collection copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2019 from James Burmester Rare Books.
- Smith Collection copy bound in pale purple wrappers.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.
- OCLC:
- 4675090
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