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Pyrotechny: designs for fireworks. Engraving by A. Bell.
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Pyrotechny: various designs for fireworks. Engraving by A. Bell.
Reference: 37681i- Pictures
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Pyrotechny: a selection of fireworks. Engraving by A. Bell.
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Pyrotechny: various designs for fireworks. Engraving by A. Bell.
Reference: 37680i- Books
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Pyrotechny; or complete directions for making and managing artificial fireworks.
Date: 1802- Pictures
The set for fireworks commemorating the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle: elevation and plan. Etching by G. Vertue, 1749.
Vertue, George, 1684-1756.Date: Drawn, engrav'd and publish'd 5th. of April 1749, according to Act of ParliamentReference: 2970949i- Books
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Artificial fireworks, improved to the modern practice, from the minutest to the highest branches; Containing Aigrettes Amber-Lights Balloons Batteries Chinese Fire-Ships Cohorns Cones Crackers Cascades Dodecaedrons Ducks Earthquakes Flights Flyers Fountains Gerbes Globes Gold-Rain Grand Volutes Leaders Lights Mines Matches Mortars Marrons Moons Neptune's Chariot Pots Pumps Rain-Falls Rockets Sea-Fights Silver-Rain Spur-Fire Squibs Stars Sky-Rockets Swans Swarms Thunder in Rooms Towering-Rockets, double and single Tourbillons Trees Water Fire-Works Wheels Yew-Trees, &c. With all their Ingredients, Compositions, Preparations, Machines, Moulds, and Manner to make them, refining Salt-Petre, and to extract it from damaged Gun-Powder, &c. With about 100 of the principal Figures beautifully engraved on Copper Plates. The second edition, corrected. With the Addition of many new and beautiful Fire-Works, and three large Copper Plates. By Captain Jones. Also, Mr. Muller's Fireworks, For Sea and Land Service, His Tables for Sea and Land Cannon, which may save above 100,000?. a Year, by diminishing the Weight of the Guns, the Labour of Men, the Quantity of Powder in charging, from 1-half to 1-3d, 1-4th, and even to 1-5th.
Jones, Robert, Captain.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Pictures
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Yellow, pink and orange fireworks representing a celebration of life as an advertisement for learning about AIDS by INSA, International Services Association in Banagalore. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
Date: [1997?]Reference: 677529i- Pictures
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A Chinese street show with fireworks and dragon costumes. Brush drawing by Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 581264iPart of: Chinese processions, public events and daily life- Books
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The art of making fireworks ; to which is added, the history of Guy Fawks and gunpowder plot.
Date: [1820?]- Pictures
Actors out on a summer's evening, enjoying the fireworks at Ryogoku Bridge. Colour woodcut by Kuniyasu, late 1810's.
Utagawa, Kuniyasu, 1794-1832.Date: [late 1810's]Reference: 35336i- Pictures
Actors out on a summer's evening, enjoying the fireworks at Ryogoku Bridge. Colour woodcut by Kuniyasu, late 1810s.
Utagawa, Kuniyasu, 1794-1832.Date: [late 1810s]Reference: 35338i- Books
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A description of the machine for the fireworks, with all its ornaments, and a detail of the manner in which they are to be exhibited in St. James's Park, Thursday, April 27, 1749, on account of the general peace, signed at Aix La Chapelle, October 7, 1748. Published by orde of His Majesty's Board of Ordnance.
Great Britain. Board of Ordnance.Date: MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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A description of the machine for the fireworks, with all its ornaments: and a detail of the manner in which they were exhibited in St. James's Park on Thursday the 27th of April, 1749, on account of the general peace, signed at Aix La Chappelle, October the 7th, 1748. Publish'd by authority of His Majesty's Board of Ordnance.
Great Britain. Board of Ordnance.Date: 1749]- Books
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The military guide for young officers, containing a system of the art of war; Parade, camp, field duty; manoeuvres, standing and general orders; warrants, regulations, returns; tables, forms, extracts from military acts; battles, sieges, forts, ports, military dictionary, &c. With twenty-five maps and copper plates. By Thomas Simes, Esq. author of the Military Medley.
Simes, Thomas, active 1757-1780.Date: 1776- Pictures
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A firework display at the entry of Ferdinand Infante of Spain into Ghent, 1636. Etching.
Date: [1636]Reference: 32746i- Books
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The Barber and fireworks. A fable. Advertisement. In a few days will be publish'd, a curious print representing the grand fireworks exhibited at Oxford, on the Thanksgiving-Day, from the tower of St. Mary Magdalen to that of St. Michael's Church. The engineers will be placed in their proper attitudes on the respective towers, with letters of reference to distinguish them by name; and a syllabus of the whole performance, contained in three acts, will be printed under the plate, for the benefit of conniseurs in pyrotechny.
Date: [1749]- Pictures
A child's nose, in danger of being destroyed in a firework accident on New Year's Eve. Colour lithograph by SIRE for Stichting Consument en Veiligheid, 1994.
Date: [1994]Reference: 749627i- Pictures
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A black singer in danger of having his career ended by a firework accident on New Year's Eve. Colour lithograph by SIRE for Stichting Consument en Veiligheid, 1994.
Date: [1994]Reference: 749642i- Books
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The art of ringing : giving exact rules for ringing all sorts of plain changes and cross peals, with directions for pricking; also how to hang bells, with easie directions for every thing which necessarily belongs to that art. Also Artificial fireworks; being directions to order and make moulds, ... rockets, fisgigs, and other curiosities too tedious to mention likewise The art of gardening: giving an account of the tools, or instruments necessary therein; and also what is to be done every month in the year; as likewise how to order cattle, orchards and hop-gardens, &c. To which is added, an excellent receipt to make a valuable liquor agreeable to all constitutions. By J. White, gent.
White, John, -1671Date: [1687?]- Books
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An address to the Worshipful Company of Barbers in Oxford; occasioned by a late infamous libel, intitled The barber and fireworks, a fable, highly reflecting on one of the Honourable Members / By a Barber.
Date: 1749- Books
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An address to the Worshipful Company of Barbers in Oxford; occasioned by a late infamous libel, intitled, The barber and fireworks, a fable, highly reflecting on one of the honourable members. By a barber.
Barber.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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An address to the Worshipful Company of Barbers in Oxford; occasioned by a late infamous libel, intitled, The barber and the fireworks, a fable, highly reflecting on one of the honourable members. By a barber.
Barber.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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An address to the Worshipful Company of Barbers in Oxford; occasioned by a late infamous libel, intitled, The barber and the fireworks, a fable, highly reflecting on one of the honourable members. By a barber.
Barber.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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The school of recreation, or, A guide to the most ingenious exercises of hunting, riding, racing, fireworks, military discipline, the science of defence, [brace] [brace] hawking, tennis, bowling, ringing, singing, cock-fighting, fowling, angling / by R.H.
Howlett, RobertDate: 1696