![BRECHTEL, Franz Joachim. Büchsenmeisterey. Das ist: Kurtze doch eigentliche erklerun deren ding, so einem Büchsenmeister fürnemlich zu wissen von nöten. Nuremberg: Katharina Gerlachin, 1591. [Bound with:] SCHMIDLAP, Johannes. Künstliche und rechtschaffene Feuerwerck zum schimpff, vormals im truck nie aussgangen. Nuremberg: Katharina Gerlachin, 1591.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/CKS/2015_CKS_10455_0144_001(brechtel_franz_joachim_buchsenmeisterey_das_ist_kurtze_doch_eigentlich090828).jpg?w=1)
![BRECHTEL, Franz Joachim. Büchsenmeisterey. Das ist: Kurtze doch eigentliche erklerun deren ding, so einem Büchsenmeister fürnemlich zu wissen von nöten. Nuremberg: Katharina Gerlachin, 1591. [Bound with:] SCHMIDLAP, Johannes. Künstliche und rechtschaffene Feuerwerck zum schimpff, vormals im truck nie aussgangen. Nuremberg: Katharina Gerlachin, 1591.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/CKS/2015_CKS_10455_0144_002(brechtel_franz_joachim_buchsenmeisterey_das_ist_kurtze_doch_eigentlich091202).jpg?w=1)
![BRECHTEL, Franz Joachim. Büchsenmeisterey. Das ist: Kurtze doch eigentliche erklerun deren ding, so einem Büchsenmeister fürnemlich zu wissen von nöten. Nuremberg: Katharina Gerlachin, 1591. [Bound with:] SCHMIDLAP, Johannes. Künstliche und rechtschaffene Feuerwerck zum schimpff, vormals im truck nie aussgangen. Nuremberg: Katharina Gerlachin, 1591.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/CKS/2015_CKS_10455_0144_000(brechtel_franz_joachim_buchsenmeisterey_das_ist_kurtze_doch_eigentlich100826).jpg?w=1)
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BRECHTEL, Franz Joachim. Büchsenmeisterey. Das ist: Kurtze doch eigentliche erklerun deren ding, so einem Büchsenmeister fürnemlich zu wissen von nöten. Nuremberg: Katharina Gerlachin, 1591. [Bound with:] SCHMIDLAP, Johannes. Künstliche und rechtschaffene Feuerwerck zum schimpff, vormals im truck nie aussgangen. Nuremberg: Katharina Gerlachin, 1591.
Two works in one volume, 8° (157 x 100mm). Woodcut illustrations throughout, Brechtel with one folding engraved plate. (Occasional light browning.) Late 17th-century vellum, spine lettered in manuscript, bulked-out with c.60 blank leaves (lacking ties, some soiling). With, bound in, a leaf of manuscript in a late 18th-century hand, discussing the method for dividing a cannon ball in 32 parts. Provenance: Georg Burgher (title signature dated 1629, Brechtel part annotated in an early, perhaps related hand) – Friedrich Augustus, Prince of Brunswick-Oels (1740-1805; bookplate with cancelled shelf marks) – Albert, King of Saxony (1828-1902; title stamps, one of these for his private library) – Saxon State and University Library Dresden (deaccession stamp).
FIRST EDITION of Brechtel’s treatise on ballistics and artillery, from the private library of King Albert of Saxony. RARE: RBH and ABPC record no copy sold at auction; Jahrbuch der Auktionspreise records only a copy of the second edition of 1599 (Ziska & Kistner, sale 41, 2003, lot 336, €11,000). Bound together with a late edition of Schmidlap’s related treatise, first published in 1560.
Two works in one volume, 8° (157 x 100mm). Woodcut illustrations throughout, Brechtel with one folding engraved plate. (Occasional light browning.) Late 17th-century vellum, spine lettered in manuscript, bulked-out with c.60 blank leaves (lacking ties, some soiling). With, bound in, a leaf of manuscript in a late 18th-century hand, discussing the method for dividing a cannon ball in 32 parts. Provenance: Georg Burgher (title signature dated 1629, Brechtel part annotated in an early, perhaps related hand) – Friedrich Augustus, Prince of Brunswick-Oels (1740-1805; bookplate with cancelled shelf marks) – Albert, King of Saxony (1828-1902; title stamps, one of these for his private library) – Saxon State and University Library Dresden (deaccession stamp).
FIRST EDITION of Brechtel’s treatise on ballistics and artillery, from the private library of King Albert of Saxony. RARE: RBH and ABPC record no copy sold at auction; Jahrbuch der Auktionspreise records only a copy of the second edition of 1599 (Ziska & Kistner, sale 41, 2003, lot 336, €11,000). Bound together with a late edition of Schmidlap’s related treatise, first published in 1560.
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