Andree and his Balloon

by Henri Lachambre, Alexis Machuron

$150 · Offered by Rare Aviation Books

Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co, 1898. Small octavo, original gilt-decorated blue cloth, viii, 306 pp., plates. Internal hinges split and tender, joints and backstrip rubbed, yet a good and attractive copy overall. Salomon August Andree was a Swedish engineer, physicist, aeronaut, and polar explorer who died while attempting to reach..... More

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