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London: John Murray, 1875. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 34pp extract, printed in double columns, salvaged from a damaged issue of the Quarterly Review, Volume 139, No. 277, July, 1875. A review of sorts in English of the various important titles in the history of aeronautics and aviation, published, respectively, in Paris, 1783, London, 1838, Paris, 1867, Paris, 1870, Paris, 1871, Paris, 1872, London, 1862-66, and Paris, 1870 and 1872. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

Paris: Cuchet, 1783. First edition. Fairly recent French full leather binding, with gilt titles and decoration to the spine. Barthélémy Faujas de Saint-Fond (a French geologist and traveller) produced this work in 1783 as the Montgolfier brothers were conducting their experiments. This is the revised edition of the book - with a supplement and further information about the brother's experiments in June-September 1783. There is a brief supplement to the rear adding information about the flight of November 21, in which Pilâtre de Rozier, accompanied by the Marquis d'Arlandes, made the first aerial voyage in history. This last flight is often recorded in engravings as the first flight over Paris. There was a second continuation volume issued in 1784. This copy has nine engravings (number 5 is the frontis illustration). The leather binding is in good clean and tidy condition, with just a touch of bumping to the corners. Internally the book is in very nice condition, with just the odd foxing spot,… Read More

à Paris: Chez Cuchet, 1784. Fine. Chez Cuchet, à Paris 1784, in-8 (13x20cm), xl, 302pp. (2), relié. - Mention de seconde édition, rare, parue après l'originale de 1783, et illustrée de 9 planches in fine, de la machine aérostatique et du bateau volant. Reliure en plein vélin souple de réemploi. Dos lisse avec nom de l'auteur à la plume et date en queue. Taches et salissures. Trace de mouillure en marge basse du frontispice. Feuillets brunis en début d'ouvrage, et quelques autres disséminés portant des brunissures. Premier et important ouvrage sur l'aérostation. Il réunit plusieurs mémoires relatant les premiers vols en ballon (Sur le gaz inflammable, Observations faites par M. Jeaurat, Du caoutchoux, Relations des premiers vols à Annonay, au Champ de Mars...) Faujas de Saint-Fond, naturaliste et géologue, soutenait financièrement les recherches des frères Montgolfier, papetiers, basées sur les expériences de Cavendish et l'ouvrage de Pristley sur… Read More

Paris: Cuchet, 1783. First Edition, Later Issue. Hardcover. Octavo, xl, 299, [7] pages. In Very Good condition. Quarter-bound speckled calf with burgundy label and gilt tooling to spine. Label mildly chipped and crooked, lower hinges beginning to crack, small bookplate to front pastedown. With all nine engraved plates plus the folding table. There is a 4 page supplement in the rear adding information about the flight of November 21, in which Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, made the first first manned free balloon flight. Text in French. Fore edges uncut. Marbled boards and endpapers. MW consignment. Shelved case 10. "The first serious treatise on aerostation as a practical possibility" (Printing and the Mind of Man). 1321953. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Full contemp. leather. Good copy. Illustrated with a frontispice of airballoon (luchtballon) at Versaille, folding table and 8 engraved plates (numbered 1-9).Air balloon - luchtballon - navigation - luchtvaart

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Paris: Chez Cuchet, rue & hôtel Serpente, 1783. First edition. Frontispiece (plate 5) and 8 further numbered plates plates partly engraved by Delaunay at back , folding table. xl, [1]-299, [3], [4, Supplement] pp. De l'Imprimerie de Chardon, rue de la Harpe, près de la Parcheménerie, 1783. 1 vols. 8vo (8-3/8 x 6-1/4 inches). In original marbled paper wrappers, manuscript title label, uncut. Tan half calf folding box. First edition. Frontispiece (plate 5) and 8 further numbered plates plates partly engraved by Delaunay at back , folding table. xl, [1]-299, [3], [4, Supplement] pp. De l'Imprimerie de Chardon, rue de la Harpe, près de la Parcheménerie, 1783. 1 vols. 8vo (8-3/8 x 6-1/4 inches). The first standard work of an aerostation, UNCUT. Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741-1819), was a very successful lawyer whose interest in natural history led him to become a geologist. He developed his own theory of volcanoes in the massive folio work, Recherches sur les volcans éteints du Vivarais et… Read More

Paris: Chez Cuchet, 1783-4.. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. 8vo. (19.5 x 12.5). pp.xl+299+7; [ii]+366+[1]. Bound for Bumpus in half red morocco, spine with simple raised bands and gilt lettering, top edge gilt. 14 full page engraved plates. Ex libris Annie Pearson [Viscountess Cowdray] and Sir Weetman Dickinson Pearson.. Paddockhurst. Title pages and frontispieces browned, still very nice copy. "The first serious treatise on aerostation as a practical possibility" (PMM). In June of 1783, the Montgolfier brothers successfully launched a balloon over Annonay, marking the beginning of the history of flight. This was surpassed in September when they sent up another balloon, this time carrying a sheep, a cock and a duck. Even more sensational was the flight of November 21, in which Pil�tre de Rozier, accompanied by the Marquis d'Arlandes, embarked from the Ch�teau de la Muette in the Bois de Bologne and flew for five and a half miles across Paris - the first aerial voyage in history. The experiment, which was… Read More

Paris: Chez Cuchet, 1783. First edition of each part. Folding table, 14 plates partly engraved by Delaunay. xl, 299, (7 unnumbered) pp.; (368) pp. 2 volumes in one. 1 vols. 8vo. Modern brown cloth, marbled edges. Bookplate. Plates have been slightly trimmed with loss of image, otherwise fine in blue cloth slipcase and leather title label label and chemise. First edition of each part. Folding table, 14 plates partly engraved by Delaunay. xl, 299, (7 unnumbered) pp.; (368) pp. 2 volumes in one. 1 vols. 8vo. The first standard work of an aerostation. Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741-1819), was a very successful lawyer whose interest in natural history led him to become a geologist. He developed his own theory of volcanoes in the massive folio work, Recherches sur les volcans éteints du Vivarais et du Velay (Grenoble, 1778), which definitively proved the volcanic nature of basalt.. He also was one of the most ardent supporters of ballooning. (DSB IV: 548-9.) He sponsored the first hydrogen… Read More

Paris: Chez B. Le Franco, 1784. 1st Edition (Thus). Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229). Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Hand-coloured frontispiece, 8 further engraved plates 2 of which are also hand-coloured, some marginal period annotations throughout, frontispiece & title page trimmed to the foot, later endpapers with an armorial bookplate to the front endpaper, contemporary gilt decorated full calf, boards & spine lightly marked & rubbed. Reissue of the first volume published by Cuchet in 1783, the typographical material used is different. Approval given by Sage, dated Paris, October 19, 1783; privilege of the King granted to Cuchet for 10 years, dated Fontainebleau, October 29, 1783 Please see photos as part of condition report 1784 1st Edition (Thus) , DESCRIPTION DES EXPÉRIENCES DE LA MACHINE AÉROSTATIQUE DE MM. DE MONTGOLFIER By M. Faujas de Saint-Fond Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (17 May 1741 – 18 July 1819) was a… Read More

Paris: Cuchet, 1783-1784; 1784; Amsterdam and Paris: Gueffier, 1785. FIRST EDITIONS. Second Issue of the first work, with the four-page "Supplément" at the end. 223 x 127 mm. (8 x 5"). Three separately published works bound as a three-volume set (the first work occupying the first two volumes).. Uniform contemporary orange paste-paper boards backed with marbled sheepskin, corners tipped with vellum, raised bands flanked by decorative gilt rolls, one red and one green morocco label. First work with a folding table and 14 ENGRAVED PLATES (nine numbered plates in first volume, five in second, two of the latter folding); second with three engraved plates; third work with one folding plate. First work: Darmon 51; PMM 229; Norman I, 769; Maggs Bros., "The History of Flight" 65. ◆A hint of rubbing to extremities, intermittent minor browning, small rust spots, or offsetting in the text bed (largely due to inferior paper stock), four leaves with one-inch brown stain to text (nothing obscured), a couple of… Read More

Paris: [Chardon for] Cuchet, 1784. First edition. DIBNER 179: 'THE FIRST SERIOUS TREATISE ON AEROSTATION' (PMM 209) . 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 intrigued by the experiments of Cavendish and Priestly with 'inflammable air' (hydrogen). "After some unsatisfactory experiments with hydrogen gas (which dissipated too quickly from their trial models), the Montgolfiers discovered that air heated to 100 degrees Celsius became sufficiently rarefied to lift a balloon and did not diffuse. On 5 June 1783 the brothers released their first full-sized balloon, a paper and linen globe thirty-five feet in diameter, which rose 6,000 feet and travelled a horizontal distance of 7,668… Read More