Reineaud on "feu grégeois" (Greek fire)
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GREEK FIRE. (2), REINAUD, (JOSEPH-TOUSSAINT) - FAVÉ, (ILDÉFONSE). Du feu grégeois des feux de guerre et des origines de la poudre a canon... Text + Atlas. Paris (J. Dumaine, neveu et succ. de G.-Laguignie...) 1845.
Text 8:o (about 200x130 mm.), atlas 4:o (about 265x215 mm.). (4). (1)-285, (3) pp., atlas (6) pp. and 17 double-page lithographed plates.
Contemporary brown half calf, gilt spines, at head gilt crowned monogram K.M.H.. Library stamps of "Det Kongl. Garnisions Bibliothek i Kiøbenhavn" and "Officer-skolen" on titles, half-titles and some other places, deaccession stamps on inside of lower covers. (Histoire de l´artillerie. I.) 2 volumes.
Löwendahl: China illustrata nova. Supplement, 1767.
Chapter VI (pp. 176-201 & 282-285 and 3 plates (nos, 15-17) is entitled "Les compositions incendiaires employées chez les chinois". A supplement was published in "Journal Asiatique" in 1849-1850.
From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
Auktionsnummer:
6134
Datum:
2017-11-21