Büchsenmeister-Discurs
Subtitle: eine neuerfundene Kugel-Taffel, Abtheilung der Stuc̈ke, Laveten und Visir-Stäbe : sambt einem wohlbestellten Feuerwercks-Laboratorio, zu Schimpf und Ernst, vielerley neuerfundenen Wasser- und Böllerkugeln : Abtheilungen der Böller, sambt ihren Laveten, Quadranten und Racheten-Stöcken : nebst etlich funfzig Kupferplatten und einem aussführlichen Register zu Ende dieses Buches beygefüget
By: beschrieben durch George Schreibern, Bürgern und Zeugwartern in Brieg ...
Contributors: Tschorn, Christoph
Publisher: Gedruckt von Christoff Tschorn
Published: 1662
Place of publication: Brieg]
Language: ger
Number of pages: 121
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Fireworks; Artillery; Gunnery
Other titles: Büchsenmaister Discurs, eine neuerfundene Kugel Taffel
Notes: "Feuerwercks Laboratorium" has special added t.p. On both t.p.'s "LXII" in year is printed cancel slip over "LVII".

Engraved port. of author on 1st leaf verso. Added engraved t.p. The [121] leaves of plates include 21 plates tipped in at center fold, many of them double page, and a double-page table following p. 8, 2nd sequence of paging.

Signatures: )(² A-2M².

Includes index.

VD17 23:270500M

In Getty copy added engraved t.p. has been remargined and is dated 1656 rather than 1662, as in VD17 copy.

Binding: 19th-century calfskin, signed by J[ohn] Leighton, Brewer St. [London]. It retains the backstrip from an earlier binding with author, title & imprint in blind. Roundels in blind on both boards with Stirling badge and mottoes.

Large armorial bookplate of William Stirling (Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 1818-1878). Printed slip from bookseller's catalog describing this work mounted at foot of engraved title.