Aeronautics FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND (Bathélémy) Description of the experiments of...
Aeronautics
FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND (Bathélémy)
2 volumes in-8: XXIX, 204pp; illustrated with 9 plates on blue paper (one as frontispiece) and one folding table / 1f, 366pp, (1); illustrated with 5 plates (one as frontispiece). Browsing with browned leaves on the leaves of the first volume, scattered browning in the second volume. Autograph of the author pasted on the title page of volume 2.
18th century fawn-coloured basane, spines smoothly decorated, red title and endpapers, red edges.
Edition of the first work on ballooning published one year after the original, rare with the second volume of the first suite of experiments. Naturist and geologist, Faujas de Saint-Fond supported financially the aerostatic researches of the Montgolfier brothers whose first balloon had risen from Annonay in June, followed in September by a balloon carrying farm animals, to finally arrive at the first human flight, succeeded by the Marquis d'Arlandes and Pilâtre de Rozier.
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FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND (Bathélémy)
2 volumes in-8: XXIX, 204pp; illustrated with 9 plates on blue paper (one as frontispiece) and one folding table / 1f, 366pp, (1); illustrated with 5 plates (one as frontispiece). Browsing with browned leaves on the leaves of the first volume, scattered browning in the second volume. Autograph of the author pasted on the title page of volume 2.
18th century fawn-coloured basane, spines smoothly decorated, red title and endpapers, red edges.
Edition of the first work on ballooning published one year after the original, rare with the second volume of the first suite of experiments. Naturist and geologist, Faujas de Saint-Fond supported financially the aerostatic researches of the Montgolfier brothers whose first balloon had risen from Annonay in June, followed in September by a balloon carrying farm animals, to finally arrive at the first human flight, succeeded by the Marquis d'Arlandes and Pilâtre de Rozier.
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