FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, BARTHÉLEMY. Description

FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, BARTHÉLEMY. Description des Expériences de la Machine Aérostatique de MM. Montgolfier, et celles auxquelles cette Découverte a donné lieu. Volume 1 (of 2). 9 engraved plates. Folding table. xl, 299, [3] pages. 8vo, contemporary vellum. Paris: (Chardon for) Cuchet, 1783

first edition, first issue, without the 4-page supplement at end. "The first full-length account of the experiments with balloon flight conducted by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783"--Norman 769. Printing and the Mind of Man 229 ("the first serious treatise on aerostation as a practical possibility").

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