Description Des Experiences De La Machine Aerostatique De Mm De Montgolfier Et De Celles

by Barthelemy Faujas De Saint Fond

$12,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Paris: Chardon for Cuchet, 1783-1784. First edition, second issue of the first volume with the four-page supplement , of the first full-length account of the historic experiments with balloon flight conducted by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783, and “the first serious treatise on aerostation as a practical possibility” PMM . The Montgolfier brothers, Joseph 1740-1810 and Étienne 1745-99 , had been

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