Lot 254
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FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND. Description des expériences de la machine aérostatique de M. de Montgolfier... Paris, 1783-84. 14 engraved plates and one folding table. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, spines gilt, morocco spine labels, joints cracked, with front cover in second volume nearly detached; scattered light foxing, one corner renewed on text leaf and a few minor marginal tears; board slipcase. FIRST EDITION. (2)

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FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND. Description des expériences de la machine aérostatique de M. de Montgolfier... Paris, 1783-84. 14 engraved plates and one folding table. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, spines gilt, morocco spine labels, joints cracked, with front cover in second volume nearly detached; scattered light foxing, one corner renewed on text leaf and a few minor marginal tears; board slipcase. FIRST EDITION. (2)
Provenance
From the library of Hatton Turner, with his bookplates (and another owner's).

Lot Essay

"Faujas de Saint-Fond's 'Description of the Aerial Machine of MM. Montgolfier' was the earliest record of this flight, written and published in the very year of its accomplishment. It is the first serious treatise on aerostation as a practical possibility."--Printing and the Mind of Man 229.

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