- Page Title
- Biringucci, Vannoccio | Two early editions of Pirotechnia | The Library of Barry Yampol: A First Selection. Part 2 | Books & Manuscripts | Sotheby's
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- sothebys.com
- Type
- Other
- First Seen
- 12/20/2025
- Last Seen
- 12/24/2025
- Domain
- sothebys.com
- URL
- https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2025/the-library-of-barry-yampol-a-first-selection-part-2/biringucci-vannoccio-two-early-editions-of
- Description
- <p>Biringucci, Vannoccio</p><p>Pirotechnia. Li Diece Libri Della Pirotechnia… <em>[Venice: Curzio Troiano Navò for Comin da Trino di Monferrato, 1559], 1558 </em></p><p><br></p><p>Small 4to (202 x 150 mm). Title with woodcut border, woodcut illustrations and historiated initials; title page lightly toned and soiled with a paper repair at lower corner and an effaced ownership inscription, a few instances of soiling in text, light dampstaining at beginning and end of the text, a printing flaw to leaf C1 with two words and the signature supplied in manuscript, lacking the final leaf (X8) with the text and colophon completed in manuscript. In modern old-style brown calf, front cover titled and decorated in blind; light rubbing to extremities, a few scuffs to the upper board, fading to spine and along the top edge of boards.</p><p><br></p><p><u>The third edition of this early and important practical text on fireworks</u>.</p><p><br></p><p>REFERENCES</p><p>Adams, B2083; Hoover, 131; Wellcome I, 874; Philip, C. <em>Firework Books</em>, B110.3; Schuh (2007), I, 592</p><p><br></p><p>PROVENANCE</p><p>Christie's South Kensington, 19 March 1999, lot 179</p><p><br></p><p>[Together with:]</p><p><br></p><p>Biringucci, Vannoccio</p><p>La Pyrotechnie, ou art de feu, contenant dix livres… <em>Paris: C. Fremy, 1572</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p>Small 4to (185 x 130 mm). Woodcut illustrations, headpiece, and initials; intermittent staining and soiling, a few minor instances of light spotting or toning, the title with a stain, a loss affecting a single letter, repaired with the letter added in manuscript, and a 20th century ownership inscription at top edge. Contemporary limp vellum; worn, with a large hole in the front cover, the ink spine title frayed and illegible; with medieval manuscript fragments used inside the binding to reinforce the spine.</p><p><br></p><p><u>The second French edition of Biringucci’s </u><em><u>Pirotechnia</u></em><u>, with the text reset in smaller type from the French 1556 edition</u>.</p><p><br></p><p>REFERENCES</p><p>Duveen p.80; Wellcome, I, 875; Philip B110.7; Schuh (2007), I, 596</p>
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