Item #54672 DESCRIPTION DES EXPERIENCES DE LA MACHINE AEROSTATIQUE DE MM. DE MONTGOLFIER. Barthelemy Faujas de Saint-Fond.

DESCRIPTION DES EXPERIENCES DE LA MACHINE AEROSTATIQUE DE MM. DE MONTGOLFIER.

Paris: B. Le Franq, 1784. Item #54672

204p, disbound, illus. (4 of 9 plates), spine broken, leaves loose, text worn, 5 plates missing, poor. 1st edition thus. See Blackwell's Catalogue 949, no. 704. The folded table is present. Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741-1819) was a noted geologist and traveler, an expert on volcanoes. He took a great interest in the balloon experiments of the brothers Montgolfier and wrote this very comprehensive work about those experiments. In French.

Price: $95.00

See all items in AVIATION