GARNERIN, ELISA. Esatta Descrizione del Globo e Paracadute dell' aeronauta Madamigella Elisa Garnerin in occasione del sue volo eseguito in Padova nell anno 1825. Padua, [1825]. Engraved portrait frontispiece and large engraved folding plate. 8vo, later boards, spine darkened; minor foxing to folding plate. FIRST EDITION. "Mlle Garnerin was the daughter of the famous aeronaut A.J. Garnerin, and was the first woman who ventured to quit the balloon in the frail parachute, and afterwards performed the perilous experiment no less than 39 times." (Maggs catalogue #685, Aerostation, 1940, item 122) -- GARNERIN. Descrizione del Globa Aereostatico... N.p. n.d. 8vo, half calf. A four-page excerpt or pamphlet -- [ANON.]. Particulars of the Parachute, with a Circumstantial Account of M. Garnerin's Ascent in the Balloon, and his Descent with the Parachute, on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 1802. N.p., n.d. Engraved plate. 8vo, half cloth. Six-page extract from a larger work. (3)

細節

GARNERIN, ELISA. Esatta Descrizione del Globo e Paracadute dell' aeronauta Madamigella Elisa Garnerin in occasione del sue volo eseguito in Padova nell anno 1825. Padua, [1825]. Engraved portrait frontispiece and large engraved folding plate. 8vo, later boards, spine darkened; minor foxing to folding plate. FIRST EDITION. "Mlle Garnerin was the daughter of the famous aeronaut A.J. Garnerin, and was the first woman who ventured to quit the balloon in the frail parachute, and afterwards performed the perilous experiment no less than 39 times." (Maggs catalogue #685, Aerostation, 1940, item 122) -- GARNERIN. Descrizione del Globa Aereostatico... N.p. n.d. 8vo, half calf. A four-page excerpt or pamphlet -- [ANON.]. Particulars of the Parachute, with a Circumstantial Account of M. Garnerin's Ascent in the Balloon, and his Descent with the Parachute, on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 1802. N.p., n.d. Engraved plate. 8vo, half cloth. Six-page extract from a larger work. (3)

來源

William Burden, Aeronautical Library, bookplates.