Pyrotechny
Subtitle: the art of fire works or a science which teaches the management or right application of it in several opperations, [sic], but particularly in that of gunpowder, &c. : taken from all the best authors and practical experience
By: Lewis Woodruff, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Published: 1824
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Fireworks.
Notes: Holograph.
The booklet, containing illustrations drawn by the author and keyed to the text, together with ten pages of additional text, is entitled: Representations & figures in the art of pyrotechny or fire works / Lewis Woodruff, 1824, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Purchased 1988.
Accompanied by several items in pocket of upper cover: 2 silhouette sketches (of the author?), sample of marbled paper, small folded printed sheet reading "lots of fun," and a small folded broadside or clipping advertising a fireworks display by Mr. John Adams in Cincinnati on Saturday evening, Sept. 13 of an unspecified year (most probably 1823 or 1828)
Includes also cookery recipes, home remedies, and short directions for marbling paper, on p. [148-168]