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  • La statuë de Loüis le Grand, placée dans le temple de l'honneur. Dessein dv fev d'artifice dressé devant l'Hotel de Ville de Paris, pour la statuë du Roy, qui y doit estre posée. Paris, Chez Nicolas & Charles Caillou, 1689. 29, [2] p. plate. 24 cm. (4̊ .)

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    • 1689
  • Dessein de la machine du fev d'artifice povr les nopces de levrs Altesses Royales. [n. p., 1663?] 17 p. 24 cm. (4̊ .)

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    • 1663
  • Proceedings.

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    • Philadelphia, Franklin Institute Research Laboratories.
    • 4 Items
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    Text JSP 74-518 v. 7-8 (1971-74)Offsite
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    Text JSP 74-518 v. 9 (1976)Offsite
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    Text JSP 74-518 v. 10 (1979)Offsite
  • The fire works and fire festivals in ancient India.

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    • Calcutta, Abhedananda Academy of Culture, 1963.
    • 1963
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSD 74-1109Offsite
  • Feuerwerke des Barock; Studien zum öffentlichen Fest und seiner literarischen Deutung vom 16. bis 18. Jahrhundert.

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    • Stuttgart, J. B. Metzler [c1974]
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 74-2806Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Handbook of pyrotechnics, by Karl O. Brauer.

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    • New York, Chemical Pub. Co., 1974.
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSD 75-338Offsite
  • Pyrotechnic Seminar. Proceedings.

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    • Springfield, Va., Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information.
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSP 76-662 v. 1 (1968)Offsite
  • Traité pratique complet des feux d'artifice, coniprenant: Les procédés les plus faciles pour exécuter toutes les pièces d'artifice de réjouissance. Les perfectionnements apportés à la préparation des feux colorés. Fusées de sauvetage, feux d'eau, de theàtre, de salon, retraite aux flambeaux, feux japonais, etc., par Amédée Denisse ...

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    • Paris: L'auteur, 1882.
    • 1882
    • 1 Item
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    Text *ZV-182Offsite
  • Pyrotechnics : from the viewpoint of solid state chemistry / Joseph Howard McLain.

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    • Philadelphia, Pa. : Franklin Institute Press, c1980.
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSE 81-1511Offsite
  • Das Feuerwerk : seine Geschichte und Bibliographie / Arthur Lotz ; mit einem Vorwort von Ernst H. Berninger.

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    • Zürich : Olms, 1978.
    • 1978-1941
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSF 84-47Offsite
  • Fireworks / George Plimpton.

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    • Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSF 84-821Offsite
  • Proceedings of the International Pyrotechnics Seminar.

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    • [s.1., s.n.]
    • unknown-present
    • 3 Items
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    Text JSP 84-168 1980, pt. 2Offsite
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    Text JSP 84-168 1980, pt. 1Offsite
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    Text JSP 84-168 July 1982Offsite
  • A practical treatise on the fabrication of matches, gun cotton, colored fires and fulminating powders [microform]. / By H. Dussauce.

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    • Philadelphia, H. C. Baird, 1864.
    • 1864
    • 1 Item
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    Text *ZV-263 Offsite
  • Chemistry of pyrotechnics : basic principles and theory / by John A. Conkling.

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    • New York : M. Dekker, c1985.
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSE 86-1691Offsite
  • Pulver, Bomben und Granaten : die Pulvermacher einst und jetzt = Poudres, bombes et obus : les poudriers d'antan et aujourd'hui / Albert Brunisholz, Carl Hildebrandt, Hans Leutwyler.

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    • Liebefeld/Bern : Lang Druck, c1983.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSG 86-177Offsite
  • Ruggieri, 250 ans de feux d'artifice / P. Bracco, E. Lebovici.

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    • Paris : Denoël, c1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSF 89-639Offsite
  • Die Schöne Kunst der Verschwendung : Fest und Feuerwerk in der europäischen Geschichte / herausgegeben von Georg Kohler ; unter Mitarbeit von Alice Villon-Lechner.

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    • Zürich : Artemis, c1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
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    Text MWFC+ 90-2394Offsite
  • Obozr︠i︡enīe ikonopisanī︠i︡a v Rossīi do kon︠t︡sa XVII v︠i︡eka [microform] : opisanīe feĭerverkov i ill︠i︡umina︠t︡siĭ.

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    • [Sanktpeterburg] : Izd. A. S. Suvorina, 1903.
    • 1903
    • 2 Items
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    Text Slav. Reserve 03-4358Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Text *ZQ-960Offsite
  • Ehrenpforten, Baldachine, Feuerwerke : Nürnberger Herrscherempfänge vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zum Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts / Renate Gold.

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    • Nürmberg : A. Hofmann, 1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
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  • Fireworks : principles and practice / by Ronald Lancaster ; and contributions from Takeo Shimizu, Roy E.A. Butler, Ronald G. Hall.

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    • New York, N.Y. : Chemical Pub. Co., c1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSD 93-198Offsite
  • Description des principales rejouissances faites à La Haye a l'occasion du couronnement de Sa Majesté Imperiale François I, &c., &c., &c. / avec de belles planches, gravées par un des meilleurs maîtres = Beschryving der voornaamste vreugde-bedryven in 's Gravenhage ter gelegenheid van de krooning van Zyne Keizerlyke Majesteit Franciscus I, enz., enz., enz. / met fraaye konst-plaaten, gesneeden door een beroemd meester.

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    • A La Haye : Aux depens d'Antoine de Groot, et fils, 1747.
    • 1747
    • 1 Item
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    Text Spencer Coll. Neth. 1747 93-444Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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  • Study on fireworks industry in India : export prospects & problems.

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    • New Delhi : Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, [1979?]
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
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    Text JBF 96-97Offsite
  • Zeitschrift für Pyrotechniker aller Art, als Feuerwerker, Pulvermüller, Schiessbaumwollfabricanten, Ingenieure, Salpeter- und Schwefelarbeiter, Verfertiger neuester Feuerzeuge und der Zündhütchen. Herausgegeben von Carl Hartmann.

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    • Weimar, 1851-
    • 1851-present
    • 1 Item
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    Text 3-VOA (Zeitschrift für Pyrotechniker aller Art) Bd. 2-3 (1851-55)Offsite
  • Los domadores del fuego / texto, Jorge Pintado Villafanã.

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    • México : [s.n.], 1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
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  • Chemical warfare, pyrotechnics and the fireworks industry, by T. F. Watkins, J. C. Cackett, and R. G. Hall.

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    • Oxford, New York, Pergamon Press, 1968.
    • 1968
    • 1 Item
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  • Beschreibung der brennenden Feuer-Bühn, welche zu höchsten Ehren der Durchlauchtigsten Fürstin und Frau, Frau Elisabeth, gebohrnen Erb-Printzessin zu Hungarn und Böheimb, Ertz-Hertzogin zu Oesterreich, Gubernatorin deren Oesterreichischen Niederlanden, bey dero erwünschten glücklichsten Ankunfft in der hochfürstlichen Residenz-Stadt Würtzburg, auf gnädigsten Befehl dess hochwürdigsten dess Heil. Röm. Reichs Fürsten und Herrn Hrn. Christoph Frantz, Bischoffen zu Würtzburg und Hertzogen zu Francken, ist auffgerichtet ... den 22 Septembris 1725. Von Balthasar Neumann, Hochfürstl. Würtzburg. Major von der Artiglerie, Ingenieur und premier Architect.

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    • Würtzburg, H. Engmann [1725]
    • 1725
    • 2 Items
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    Text GAM+ (Neumann, B. Beschreibung der brennenden Feuer-Bühn)Offsite
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  • Booth's history of New York. v. 5 [graphic]

    • Still image
    • 1801-approximately 1886.
    • 1801-1886
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  • Booth's history of New York. v. 7 [graphic]

    • Still image
    • 1861-ca. 1880.
    • 1861-1880
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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.

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    • London : printed and sold by Dean and Munday, 1819.
    • 1819
    • 1 Item
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    Text NCOA [RBS] 97-1067Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Vollkommene geschütz-feüerwerck-und büchsenmeisteren-kunst: hiebevor in lateinischer spraach beschrieben und mit fleiss zusammen getragen, von Casimiro Simienowicz ... Anitzo in die hochteutsche spraach übersetzet, von Thoma Leonhard Beeren ... Mit schönen kupffern und einem gantzen neuen theil vermehret durch Daniel Elrich ...

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    • Franckfurt am Mayn, In verlegung Johann David Zunners, Gedruckt bey Henrich Friesen, 1676.
    • 1676
    • 1 Item
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    Text VWW+ (Siemienowicz, K. Vollkommene Geschütz-Feuerwerck und Büchsenmeisteren-Kunst)Offsite
  • A new and comprehensive edition of the art of making and managing fireworks with safety and ease, containing instructions for the following: artificial earthquakes, artificial thunder, blue flame [etc.] with full information relative to the properties, as well as mixing and preparing gunpowder, saltpetre, charcoal, steel and iron filings, &c., &c.

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    • London, Printed for T. Hughes [1824?]
    • 1824
    • 1 Item
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  • Büchsenmeister-Discurs; eine neuerfundene Kugel-Tafel, Abtheilung der Stücke, Laveten und Visir-Stäbe, samt einem wohlbestellten Feuerwercks-Laboratorio, zu Schimpff und Ernst, vielderley neuerfundenen Wasser-und Böller-Kugeln; Abtheilungen der Böller, sambt ihren Laveten, Quadranten, und Racheten-Stöcken, nebst etlich funffzig Kupfferplatten, und einem ausführlichem Register zu Ende dieses Buches beygefüget, beschrieben durch George Schreibern, Bürgern und Zeugwartern in Brieg, allda gedruckt von Christoph Tschorn.

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    • Und itzo zu finden bey V.J. Treschern, Buchhändlern in Bresslau [1671]
    • 1671
    • 2 Items
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    Text VWW+ (Schreiber, G. Büchsenmeister-Discurs)Offsite
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    Text *KB+ p.v. 23Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Cours abrégé d'artifices contenant la confection, la réception, la conservation et la démolition des munitions et artifices de guerre; suivi de notions sur les artifices de joie.

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    • Strasbourg, Éditeur de l'Annuaire militaire de France, 1850.
    • 1850
    • 2 Items
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    Text VWS (France (1848-52, 1. republic). Guerre, Ministère de la. Cours abrégé d'artifices contenant la confection, la réception)Offsite
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    Text VWS (France (1848-52, 1. republic). Guerre, Ministère de la. Cours abrégé d'artifices contenant la confection, la réception)Offsite
  • Pain's fireworks in many lands.

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    • [New York, South Publishing Press, 1921]
    • 1921
    • 1 Item
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    Text 3-VOG+++ (Pain, H. J. Pain's fireworks in many lands)Offsite
  • Endless amusement : a collection of upwards of 400 entertaining and astonishing experiments : among a variety of other subjects, are amusements in arithmetic, mechanics, hydraulics, hydrostatics, optics, pneumatics, electricity, chemistry, magnetism, combinations of figures, reflection & refraction of light, the art of making fire-works, diverting experiments with the magic lantern and camera obscura, wonders of the air-pump, all the popular tricks and changes of the cards, &c., &c., &c. : the whole so clearly explained as to be within the reach of the most limited capacity.

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    • London : Thorp and Burch, [ca. 1818]
    • 1818
    • 1 Item
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    Text OAP (Endless amusement. 1818)Offsite
  • Endless amusement : a collection of nearly 400 entertaining experiments in various branches of science, including acoustics, arithmetic, chemistry, electricity, hydraulics, hydrostatics, magnetism, mechanics, optics, wonders of the air-pump, all the popular tricks and changes of the cards, &c., &c. : to which is added, A complete system of pyrotechny, or, The art of making fireworks : the whole so clearly explained, as to be within the reach of the most limited capacity.

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    • London : Henry Washbourne and Thomas Tegg, 1839
    • 1839
    • 1 Item
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  • The chemistry of powder and explosives, by Tenney L. Davis.

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    • New York, J. Wiley & sons, inc.; London, Chapman & Hall, limited, 1941-43.
    • 1941
    • 1 Item
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    Text VOG (Davis, T. L. Chemistry of powder and explosives. 1941) v. 1Offsite
  • Manuel de l'artificier.

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    • A Paris, : Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, imprimeur-libraire du Corps Royal de l'artillerie & du génie, rue Dauphine, à l'image Notre-Dame., M. DCC. LVII. [1757]
    • 1757
    • 1 Item
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    Text VOG (Frezier, A. F. Manuel de l'artificier)Offsite
  • The great art of artillery of Casimir Simienowicz ... Tr. from the French by George Shelvocke, jun. ... Illustrated with twenty three copper plates.

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    • London, J. Tonson, 1729.
    • 1729
    • 1 Item

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    Text VOG (Siemienowicz, K. Great art of artillery of Casimir Simienowicz)Offsite
  • Pirothecnia entretenida, curiosa y agradable de fuegos recreativos, con varias invenciones y secretos, y algunas ideas generales, para que cada uno pueda formarse otras á su modo. Recogidas y ordenadas por un curioso.

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    • Madrid, En la imprenta de la Viuda de Ibarra, 1799.
    • 1799
    • 1 Item
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    Text VOG (Pirothecnia entretenida)Offsite
  • Artis magnæ artilleriæ : pars prima / auctore Casimire Siemienowicz ...

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    • Amsterodami : Apud Ioannem Ianssonium ..., 1650.
    • 1650
    • 1 Item
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    Text VOG+ (Siemienowicz, K. Artis magnae artilleriae)Offsite
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  • Manual of explosives, military pyrotechnics, and chemical warfare agents; composition, properties, uses, by Jules Bebie.

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    • New York, The Macmillan company, 1943.
    • 1943
    • 1 Item
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    Text VOG (Bebie, J. Manual of explosives)Offsite
  • A history of fireworks.

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    • London, Harrap [1949]
    • 1949
    • 1 Item
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    Text VOG (Brock, A. S. H. History of fireworks)Offsite
  • Die Lustfeuerwerkerei zur Verschönerung öffentlicher und häuslicher Feste. : Nebst Angabe der vorzüglichsten Bereitungsweisen der sich zu Theater-Beleuchtungen, Illuminationen u.s.w. eignenden farbigen Flammen und Lichte. Mit 3 Tafeln, enthaltend 55 Abbildungen..

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    • Weimar, : Bernhard Friedrich Voigt., 1864..
    • 1864
    • 1 Item

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  • Handbook for making rockets and fireworks.

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    • New York, Pageant Press, 1960.
    • 1960
    • 1 Item
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    Text VOG (Ackalusky, J. Handbook for making rockets and fireworks)Offsite
  • Lustfeuerwerkerei für Berufsfeuerwerker und Liebhaber.

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    • Wien, A. Hartleben, 1909.
    • 1909
    • 1 Item

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    Text VOG (Falbesoner, H. Lustfeuerwerkerei fur Berufsfeuerwerker und Liebhaber)Offsite
  • Manual de pirotecnia.

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    • Barcelona, Editorial Sintes [1953?]
    • 1953
    • 1 Item
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    Text VOG (Gabarret, L. Manual de pirotecnia)Offsite
  • Die Lustfeuerwerkerei für Feuerwerker und Dilettanten; oder, Anleitung, wie man mit wenigen Kosten alle Arten von Kunst- und Lustfeuern zur Verschönerung öffentlicher und häuslicher Feste zubereiten kann. Nebst einer Auswahl der schönsten farbigen Sätze. Von F.C.A. Büttner und F.M. Chertier. Siebente sehr vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage, wobei die neuesten Fortschritte und Erfahrungen vollständig berücksichtigt sind. Neu bearbeitet von Heinr. Hamberger ...

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    • Weimar, B.F. Voigt, 1846.
    • 1846
    • 1 Item

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    Text 3-VOG (Buettner, F. C. A. Lustfeuerwerkerei für Feuerwerker und Dilettanten)Offsite
  • Pyrotechnics: the history and art of firework making, by A. St. H. Brock.

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    • London, D. O'Connor, 1922.
    • 1922
    • 1 Item
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    Text VOG (Brock, A. S. H. Pyrotechnics)Offsite
  • A system of pyrotechny, comprehending the theory and practice, with the application of chemistry; designed for exhibition and for war. In four parts: containing an account of the substances used in fire works; the instruments, utensils, and manipulations; fire-works for exhibition; and military pyrotechny ... By James Cutbush.

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    • Philadelphia, C. W. Cutbush, 1825.
    • 1825
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