Novelle, et Mervuilleuse Invention de Mortiers le Cuivre, jecant dehors a Paide du vent de Bombes, si grandes, qu'on y peut cacher dedans 25. Persones qui sans aucune blessure peuvent entrer en tombant dans les Villes, & chateaux de Ennemys, practiquees & inuentees par le fameux Ingeniear Mustaphato Salicio Renegat a present

Broadside with 4 engraved illustrations of an massive mortar with projectile designed by 'le fameux Ingenieur Mustaphato Salicio' to carry 25 men inside for breaching towns and fortified places. The illustrations are numbered N I - N IV, and show soldiers padded with straw loading themselves inside the huge mortar; the mortar being hoisted by a huge pulley into the barrel of an enormous cannon; an enormous bellows being erected to fire the cannon; and the soldiers marching out of the mortar inside the walls of the city Broadside with 4 engraved illustrations of an massive mortar with projectile designed by 'le fameux Ingenieur Mustaphato Salicio' to carry 25 men inside for breaching towns and fortified places. The illustrations are numbered N I - N IV, and show soldiers padded with straw loading themselves inside the huge mortar; the mortar being hoisted by a huge pulley into the barrel of an enormous cannon; an enormous bellows being erected to fire the cannon; and the soldiers marching out of the mortar inside the walls of the city Oblong folio. Vienna, Christian Nebehay, 1959. Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection., Brown University Library Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
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