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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
SCHREIBER, GEORG. Beschreibung einer neuen und zuvor nie ausgegangenen Büchsen-Meisterey. 18 folding engraved plates; folding letterpress table. [86] leaves. 4to, 184x152 mm, contemporary vellum boards, worn, spine darkened, missing portion at bottom; text browned, some plate margins cropped slightly entering image, small piece torn from top of M4 with text loss. Breslau: Veit Jakob Trescher, circa 1660?
first edition of a treatise on the manufacture and use of saltpeter, gunpowder, and cannon. No copy recorded in American Book Prices Current; Jahrbuch der Auktionspreise cites only a copy sold in 1960.
