THE HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF AEROSTATION
London: printed for the author, and sold by C. Dilly, in the Poultry, 1785. First Edition. Octavo, viii, 326 pages, [8], 2 plates. In Good plus condition. Bound in three-quarter brown leather with brown paper boards and faded gilt to spine. Boards show cracking to hinges, wear to edges and head and tail of spine, and some peeling to spine. Front board detached but present. Textblock is clean. MW consignment. Shelved case 10.
1322030
Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $1,600
NOTES
The first English-language scientific treatise on ballooning.
ESTC: T131745
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