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Pirotechnia del Signor Vannuccio Biringuccio Senese : nella quale si tratta non solo della diuersità delle minere, ma anco di quanto si ricerca alla pratica di esse, e che s'appartiene all'arte della fusione, ò getto de metalli : far campane, artigliarie, fuochi artificiati, & altre diuerse cose vtilissime.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection TN144 .B45 1678
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Biringucci, Vannoccio, 1480-1539?, author.
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Mineral industries--Early works to 1800.
- Mineral industries.
- Metallurgy--Early works to 1800.
- Metallurgy.
- Metal-work--Early works to 1800.
- Metal-work.
- Fireworks--Early works to 1800.
- Fireworks.
- metallurgy.
- metalworking.
- fireworks (explosive equipment).
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Fornari, Baldassare (autograph) (Smith copy)
- Galeani, Franciscus(?) (autograph) (Smith copy)
- Physical Description:
- [32], 630 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm (8vo)
- Edition:
- Nuouamente corretta, e ristampata, con le figure appropriate à suoi luoghi, e due tauole l'vna de capitoli, e l'altra delle cose notablli [sic].
- Other Title:
- Pirotechnia del Signor Vannvccio Biringvccio Senese
- Fingerprint:
- ,ein s-ne cono vaui (3) 1678 (Q)
- Place of Publication:
- In Bologna : Per Gioseffo Longhi, [1678]
- Notes:
- Dedication signed: Natale Doriguzzi.
- Imprint date supplied from C.S. Smith and M.T. Gnudi, The Pirotechnia of Vannuccio Biringuccio (1942), page 459.
- Signatures: a-b⁸ A-2P⁸ 2Q¹²(-2Q12?)
- Woodcut illustrations, initials and tail-pieces.
- Type ornament title ornament and tail-pieces.
- Printed marginalia.
- Local Notes:
- Smith copy has early manuscript inscription, covered with ink blot and illegible, on front pastedown.
- Smith copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2025 from Adam Weinberger.
- Smith copy has early autograph ("Baldassare Fornari"), covered with ink blot, on front pastedown; early autograph ("Franc[isc]us[?] Galeani") on title leaf.
- Smith copy has bookseller's description of this copy laid in.
- OCLC:
- 4885404
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