OBSERVATIONS SUR LES NOUVELLES DECOUVERTES AEROSTATIQUES, et sur la probabilité de pouvoir diriger les ballons.
by BRISSON, Mathieu-Jacques.:
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Paris, Le Boucher, 1784.. TITLE CONTINUED: Pour servir de Supplement a son Dictionnaire raisonne de Physique. Contenant: L'idée d'un Aérostat; Rapport fait à l'Académie des Sciences sur la MACHINE AEROSTATIQUE inventée par MM. DE MONGOLFIER; Moyens de diriger les Ballons. FIRST EDITION 1784. 4to, approximately 260 x 195 mm, 10 x 7½ inches, woodcut vignette to title page, large floral headpiece to first page, pages: [2], 1-34, rebound in quarter calf with gilt lettered label and gilt decoration to spine over paper boards, vellum tips to corners, new endpapers, edges stained red. Pale age-browning throughout, last page has brown stained corners (see image), occasional small brown spot. Very good copy with attractive spine. See: Gaston Tissandier, Bibliographie Aeronautique, page 15, listing the smaller 8vo edition only. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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- OBSERVATIONS SUR LES NOUVELLES DECOUVERTES AEROSTATIQUES, et sur la probabilité de pouvoir diriger les ballons.
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- BRISSON, Mathieu-Jacques.:
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- Paris, Le Boucher, 1784.
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- ballons aeronautiques flight flying l'aerostation ballooning mongolfier aviation aeronautical
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