Author: Siemienowicz Casimir, 1600 - 1651
Title: Grand art d'artillerie mise en françois par Pierre Noizet.
Title in English: The Great Art of Artillery, Translated into French by Pierre Noizet.
Published: Amsterdam, apud Joannem Janssonium, 1651.
Format: In-folio; 4 ce., 410 pp.
Binding: the copy is genuine and nice in contemporary calf vellum. The title written on spine is later.
References: Libri Antichi e Rari. Catalogo 37. - Libreria Antiquaria Mediolanum, Italy: Milano, 1996, Cat. No 106, p. 79-80; Brunet V, 377. Berlin Katalog 3298. Lipperheide 2082. Jaehns II, 1196-1198.
Casimir Siemienowicz’s The Great Art of Artillery was translated into French by Pierre Noiset. The French version uses the same frontispiece as the first edition in Latin.
Reference: "The Collection of Lawyer Jaunius Gumbis: the Past Preserved in Books". Museum and Collector - 7. Vilnius: National Museum of Lithuania, 2018, p. 289.
Published: "The Collection of Lawyer Jaunius Gumbis: the Past Preserved in Books". Museum and Collector - 7. Vilnius: National Museum of Lithuania, 2018, p. 288-291.
Exhibitions: "The Collection of Lawyer Jaunius Gumbis: the Past Preserved in Books", September 3, 2018 – October 21, 2018.