Lot 3334: Appier, Jean (1596-1647), called Hanzelet. , La pyrotechnie de Hanzelet, où sont representés les plus rares & plus appreuvez secrets des machines & des feux artificiels propres pour assieger battre, surprendre & deffendre toutes places.

Malthus, Francis ( fl . 1629-1646). Pratique de la guerre. [Paris, 1650?] , [8 (including engraved title-page)], 282, [8 (last 2 blank)]pp., illustration : engraved title-page, 2 engraved plates, engraved illustrations, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, lacking printed title-page, engraved title-page slightly trimmed 2 works in one volume, 4to (221 x 164mm.), binding : eighteenth-century speckled calf, small abrasion at foot of upper cover

Cockle 938; Rép. bibl. xviie siècle, Pont-à-Mousson 214

first edition of Appier's work on pyrotechnical military devices. Francis Malthus was an Englishman who served in the army of Louis XIII as "commissaire des feux et artifices de l'artillerie". He introduced the mortar into French warfare in 1634.