Description des expériences de la machine aérostatique

by Barthélemy Faujas De Saint-Fond

$3,000 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Paris and Brussels: 1784. 8vo. xxix, 204 pp. Engraved frontispiece and 9 engraved plates on thick stock. Contemporary blue publisher’s wrappers with printed spine label, glassine sleeve. An excellent copy in fine original condition. Item #19862 First edition thus, a truncation of the author’s landmark 2-volume work on the first aerial balloon flight published the year before. It records the efforts of the Montgolfier brothers, who, on June 5,

• Binding: Wrappers

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