Brisson, [M.J.]: [Ballooning]:

$1,650 · Offered by William Reese Company

OBSERVATIONS SUR LES NOUVELLES DÉCOUVERTES AÉROSTATIQUES, ET SUR LA PROBABILITÉ DE POUVOIR DIRIGER LES BALLONS. Brisson was a distinguished naturalist and physicist. His OBSERVATIONS... includes his report to the Académie des Sciences on the Montgolfiers' balloon and a proposal for a balloon motorized by steam jets and guided by rudders, which prefigures the blimp. Brisson's work also contains a valuable dictionary of the recently developed ballooning terminology. This is the scarcer quarto printing of his report; an octavo edition appeared the same year.

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