Premium & Rewards Members 25% Off Pre-Order Books With Code PREORDER25 Ends 6/26 Shop Now Online only. See page for details.Premium & Rewards Members 25% Off Pre-Order Books With Code PREORDER25 Ends 6/26 Shop Now Online only. See page for details.
Add Item to wish listAdd Item to wish list

Horror and Harm: Rudolf von Deventer's Treatise on Gunpowder and Fireworks, c. 1585

By Maria Fabricius Hansen, Anne Haack Christensen, Jesper Svenningsen, Casper Thorhauge Briggs-Mønsted
Paperback
$54.00
By Maria Fabricius Hansen, Anne Haack Christensen, Jesper Svenningsen, Casper Thorhauge Briggs-Mønsted
Promotion message icon
Premium Members save an extra 10% and all Members collect stamps to save with Rewards. 10 stamps = $5.Learn More
Formats
In stock
This item is currently out of stock online.
Free standard shipping on orders over $60
Select a store to view item availability.
Horror and Harm: Rudolf von Deventer’s Treatise on Gunpowder and Fireworks, c. 1585 offers a transcription and translation from German into modern English of a unique and spectacularly illustrated sixteenth-century manuscript on war and festival culture during the reign of the Danish King Frederik II (r. 1559–88). The manuscript, written in German by the King’s specialist in artillery Rudolf von Deventer, presents instructions to produce firearms for defence against the archenemies of the C...

Categories

HistoryEuropean HistoryGeneral & Miscellaneous European HistoryGeneral & Miscellaneous European History