WONDERFUL BALLOON ASCENTS: OR, THE CONQUEST OF THE SKIES. A HISTORY OF BALLOONS AND BALLOON VOYAGES. From the French of F. Marion pseudonym . With Illustrations

by Camille Flammarion, F. Marion.

$150 · Offered by L. W. Currey

New York: Charles Scribner & Co., 1870. Octavo, pp. xvi, 218 + 32 + 6 ads, 30 illustrations, publisher's decorated reddish brown cloth stamped in gold and blind. First U.S. edition, first printing. A work published at the height of balloonmania by an author, both aeronaut and communicator, in La Nature. An important popular history of early balloon flight. Part of Scribner's popular science series Illustrated

• Printing: first

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