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[FIREWORKS]. Pair of Illustrated Books on Fireworks from the Library of Magician and Scientist, Edwin A. Dawes, including: [Frézier, Amédée-François (1682-1773)]. Traité des Feux d'Artifice pour le Spectacle. Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1747. 8vo. Illustrated with copper-plate frontispiece plus 13 folding copper-plates, and a few intertextual illustrations. 496 pp. Approximately 7 ¾ x 4 ¾". Bound in contemporary full mottled calf, spine tooled in gilt in compartment, five raised bands, burgundy gilt morocco lettering label, marbled endleaves (some wear to binding, joints repaired, some light toning, foxing to text). Very good. NOUVELLE EDITION (THE SECOND EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL EARLY BOOK ON THE TOPIC). And: “JUVENILE PYROTECHNIAN". The Complete Art of Making Fireworks: Improved to Modern Practice; from the Minutest to the Highest Branches; Containing Copious Directions for Making Squibs, Crackers, Serpents, Rockets… London: Orlando Hodgson [ca. 1825]. 12mo. Illustrated with beautiful fold-out hand-colored frontispiece. and several intertextual woodcuts of pyrotechnic equipment. 24 pp. Bound in modern quarter red morocco over marbled boards, later plain wrappers bound-in (some rubbing to binding, occasional faint foxing in text). Fine. FIRST EDITION OF THIS CHAPBOOK. Both books with the bookplate of Edwin A. Dawes on the fps.