[ ROBERTSON, Eugene (1799-1838) and Steven Gaspar ROBERTSON]. Relaao da Viagem Aerostatica Feita em Lisboa no dia 14 de Maro de 1819. Lisbon: Impressão Regia, 1819. Small 4o (220 x 170 mm). Engraved portrait of Eugene Robertson. 15 pages (very slight soiling). Contemporary marbled wrappers, quarter morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION describing the first ascension of the then 20 year old Robertson. Late in the same year he reversed direction, making an early parachute descent in Lisbon. After an illustrious aerial career, with ascents in New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Havana and Mexico, Robertson died at 39 years old in 1838. NUC records only two copies and notes "translated from the French (?) by Marino Miguel Franzini."

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[ ROBERTSON, Eugene (1799-1838) and Steven Gaspar ROBERTSON]. Relaao da Viagem Aerostatica Feita em Lisboa no dia 14 de Maro de 1819. Lisbon: Impressão Regia, 1819. Small 4o (220 x 170 mm). Engraved portrait of Eugene Robertson. 15 pages (very slight soiling). Contemporary marbled wrappers, quarter morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION describing the first ascension of the then 20 year old Robertson. Late in the same year he reversed direction, making an early parachute descent in Lisbon. After an illustrious aerial career, with ascents in New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Havana and Mexico, Robertson died at 39 years old in 1838. NUC records only two copies and notes "translated from the French (?) by Marino Miguel Franzini."