4TURNOR, Christopher Hatton. Astra Castra; Experiments and Adventures in the Atmosphere, London, Chapman and Hall, 1865, 2°, inscribed by the author to Gerald Edmund Boyle: "You were the means of saving me from death after having fallen 97 feet in a dry circular well at Pompeii ...," 35 plates, contemporary blue half calf (upper cover detached, extremities rubbed), t.e.g.
Loosely-inserted is a facsimile of the 4pp. manuscript prospectus for this work in which Turnor states that it "contains full information on the experience required in Balloon Ascents, & also the risks & enforcements attending them." He goes on to list the "471 aeronauts in the world between 1783 & 1836" including "49 ladies of whom 28 are English, 17 French, 3 Germans & 1 Italian."
4TURNOR, Christopher Hatton. Astra Castra; Experiments and Adventures in the Atmosphere, London, Chapman and Hall, 1865, 2°, inscribed by the author to Gerald Edmund Boyle: "You were the means of saving me from death after having fallen 97 feet in a dry circular well at Pompeii ...," 35 plates, contemporary blue half calf (upper cover detached, extremities rubbed), t.e.g.
Loosely-inserted is a facsimile of the 4pp. manuscript prospectus for this work in which Turnor states that it "contains full information on the experience required in Balloon Ascents, & also the risks & enforcements attending them." He goes on to list the "471 aeronauts in the world between 1783 & 1836" including "49 ladies of whom 28 are English, 17 French, 3 Germans & 1 Italian."
