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Pyrotechnics: The History and Art of Firework Making

Chapter 27: PYROTECHNIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
By Alan St. H. Brock
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A comprehensive survey traces the origins and evolution of fireworks, examining early uses in the East and Europe, their role in public entertainments and pleasure gardens, and changes through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explains manufacturing methods and safety practices, catalogs simple and compound devices (rockets, shells, mines, wheels and lances), and details pyrotechnic compositions and modern variants. Military applications and wartime developments are considered alongside civil display techniques, accidents and preventative measures. The volume includes technical diagrams, coloured illustrations, ingredient lists and a bibliography to support practical and historical study.

PYROTECHNIC BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Manuscripts
  • 1225.  Treatise of the Ruses of War, the capturing of Towns and the Defence of Passes, according to the instructions of Alexander son of Philip (in the Leyden Library).
  • 1432.  Feuerwerksbuch (MS. 362 in the University Library of Freiburg i. B.).
  • 1438.  (about). Latin Manuscript, with enumeration of materials for all fires (No. 197 in the Royal Library, Munich).
  • Printed Books
  • 1529.  Strassburg. Anonymous: Buchsenmeisterei von Geschoss, Buchsenpulver, Salpeter und Feuerwerk.
  • 1540.  Venice. Vanuccio Biringuccio: De la pirotechnia.
  • 1573.  London. Peter Whitehorne: How to make Saltpetre, Gunpowder, etc.
  • 1578.  William Bourne: Inventions and Devices.
  • 1579.  Leonard Diggs: Stratistico.
  • 1588.  London. Cyprian Lucar: Lucar Appendix, collected to shew the Properties, Office and Dutie of a Gunner, and to teach him to make and refine artificial Saltpeeter to sublime for Gunpowder, etc. (annexed to a translation of Tartagalia’s book).
  • 1591.  London. Anonymous: A profitable and Necessary Book of Observations for all those that are burned with the flame of Gunpowder, etc.
  • 1607.  Argentorati (Strassburg) Albertus Magnus: De mirabilibus mundi.
  • 1614.  Diego Ufano: Artillery.
  • c. 1620. W. Eldred: The Gunners Glasse.
  • 1628.  Robert Norton: The Gunner.
  • 1629.  F. Malthus (Francois de Malthe): Treatise of Artificial Fireworks.
  • 1630.  Pont-à-Mousson. Jean Appier, alias Hanzelet: La Pyrotechnie.
  • 1635.  London. John Bate: Mysteries of Nature and Art. The Second Book teaching most plainly and withall most exactly the composing of all manner of Fireworks for Tryumph and Recreation.
  • 1635.  London. John Babington: Pyrotechnia.
  • 1643.  Robert Norton: The Gunners Dialogue.
  • 1648.  Worcester, Nathanael Nye: The Art of Gunnery.
  • 1650.  Casimir Siemienowitz: Great Art of Artillery. (Translated into English by George Shelvocke in 1729.)
  • 1698.  Hafniae (Copenhagen). (?) Winter: De pulvere Pyrio. Recreation.
  • 1707 & 1747. Paris. Frézier: Traité des Feux d’Artifice.
  • 1710.  Frankfort. (?) Sinceri: Salpetersieder und Feuerwerker.
  • 1735.  Paris. Jean Baptiste Du-Halde: Description géographique historique, Chronologique et physique de l’empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise.
  • 1740.  Paris. Perinet-d’Orval: Essay sur les Feux d’Artifice.
  • 1755.  Frankfort. Anonymous: Der Wohlerfahrne Salpetersieder und Feuerwerker.
  • 1765 & 1776. London. Lieut. Robert Jones: A new Treatise on Artificial Fireworks.
  • 1801 & 1821. Paris. Claude-Fortuné Ruggieri: Elémens de Pyrotechnie.
  • 1807.  Leipsig. Die Pyrotechnie nach der Vorschriften von Claude Ruggieri und Thomas Morel.
  • 1812.  Paris. Claude-Fortuné Ruggieri: Pyrotechnie Militaire.
  • 1824.  London. G. W. Mortimer: A Manual of Pyrotechny.
  • 1824.  Strassburg. J. Ravichio de Peretsdorf: Traité de pyrotechnie militaire, contenant tous les artifices de guerre en usage en Autriche.
  • 1836.  Bruxelles. Capt. Moritz Meyer (translated into French by Lieut. Hippert): Pyrotechnie Raisonnée.
  • 1845.  Madrid. D’Antonio Bermejo: Manual de pirotechnica militar.
  • 1845.  Paris. Joseph Toussaint Reinaud and General Ildephonse Favé: Histoire de l’artillerie. 1ère partie. Du feu grégois des feu de guerre et des origines de la poudre à canon.
  • 1847.  Paris. Joseph Toussaint Reinaud and General Ildephonse Favé: Controverse à propose de feu grégois. Réponse aux objections de L. Lalanne.
  • 1850.  Breslau. Martin Websky: Schule der Lustfeuerwerkerei.
  • 1854.  Paris. F. M. Chertier: Nouvelles recherches sur les feux d’artifice.
  • 1859.  London. Abridgments of the Specifications relating to Fire-Arms, etc.
  • 1864.  Philadelphia. G. Dussauce: A Practical Treatise on the Fabrication of Matches, Gun-Cotton, Coloured Fires and Fulminating Powders.
  • 1865.  London. “Practicus”: Pyrotechny, or The Art of Making Fireworks.
  • 1865.  Paris. A. D. & P. Vergnaud: 1ère Partie, Pyrotechnie militaire. 2ième Partie, Pyrotechnie Civile.
  • 1865.  London. Richardson & Watts: Chemical Technology.
  • c. 1870. London. “Practicus”: Manual of Pyrotechny.
  • 1876.  Paris. E. Désortiaux: La poudre, les corps explosifs et la pyrotechnie. Traduction des ouvrages des docteurs Upmann et Meyer.
  • 1878.  Paris. A. Lamarre: Nouveau manuel de l’artificier, ou traité pratique pour la fabrication des feux de couleurs, etc.
  • 1878.  Washington. Major James M. Whittemore and Lieut. F. Heath: Ammunition, Fuses, Primers, Military Pyrotechny, etc.
  • 1878.  London. Thomas Kentish: The Pyrotechnists’ Treasury.
  • 1880.  London. Dr. W. H. Browne: Practical Firework-Making for Amateurs.
  • 1882.  Paris. Amédée Denisse: Traité pratique complet des feux d’artifice.
  • 1883.  Paris. Paul Tessier: Chimie pyrotechnique, ou traité pratique des feux colorés.
  • 1884.  Hull. Dr. W. H. Browne: Firework Accidents.
  • 1885.  Erfurt. Oscar Frey: Die Feuerwerkskunst.
  • 1891.  Paris. Marcelin Berthelot: Les compositions incendiares dans l’antiquité et au moyen age. Le feu grégois et les origines de la poudre à canon. (Revue des Deux Mondes.)
  • 1893.  Trieste. Domenico Antoni: Trattato Teorico—Practico de Pirotecnia Civile.
  • 1895.  London. Oscar Guttman: The Manufacture of Explosives.
  • 1896.  London. Warwick Wroth, F.S.A.: The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century.
  • 1906.  Woolwich. Col. J. R. J. Jocelyn: The connection of the Ordnance Department with National and Royal Fireworks.
  • 1909.  London. The Rise and Progress of the British Explosives Industry.
  • 1915.  London. Lieut.-Col. H. W. L. Hime: The Origin of Artillery.
  • Encyclopædias, Periodicals, etc.
  • 1753.  Chambers’ Cyclopædia.
  • 1802.  English Encyclopædia.
  • 1830.  Brewster’s Cyclopædia—MacCullock.
  • 1865.  Boys’ Own Volume: Papers on Pyrotechny, “Practicus.” Encyclopædia Britannica.
  • 1886.  The Techno-Chemical Receipt Book. Brannt & Wahl.
  • 1921.  Harmsworth Universal Encyclopædia. A. St. H. Brock.