Military Pyrotechnics. Military Pyrotechny for the use of the cadets and the US Military Academy,

Military Pyrotechnics. Military Pyrotechny for the use of the cadets and the US Military Academy, West Point, 1842, title, 41 pp. text and twenty-four plates, lithographic printing throughout, faded red and blue inkstamp to third plate, spotting and dampstaining throughout, pencil ownership inscription of ‘H S Binton, US Army’ to title, occ. pencil notes to text, contemp. linen-backed boards with manuscript paper label to upper cover ‘Notes on Pyrotechny by Lieut. M. Knowlton, US Military’, joints weak, soiled and worn, 4to. This rare book is attributed to Miner Knowlton and sometimes to James Duncan Zebina Kinsley. The first edition of this book [1831] was the first book to be issued by the Lithographic Press located at the West Point Military Academy. The Manual was printed for the small number of cadets as a reference to lectures on the production of bombs, rockets, and other explosives. The plates are initialled G.A. for George Aspinwall. No other copy of this edition has been located. (1)