Aeronautics - Lot 646

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Aeronautics FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND (Bathélémy) Description of the experiments of the aerostatic machine of MM. de Montgolfier, and of those to which this discovery gave place; followed by Researches on the height to which the balloon of the Champ-de-Mars reached; on the route which it held, on the different degrees of gravity of the air in the layers of the atmosphere; Of a Memorandum on the inflammable gas and on that which employed MM. de Montgolfier; on the art of making aerostatic machines, of cutting them, of filling them, and on the manner of dissolving elastic gum, etc. etc.; Of a Letter on the means of directing these machines, and on the different uses to which they can be put (volume 1); followed by the First continuation of the description of the aerostatic Experiments (volume 2). Paris ; Bruxelles, Le Francq, 1784. 2 volumes in-8: XXIX, 204pp; illustrated with 9 plates on blue paper (one as frontispiece) and one folding table / 1f, 366pp, (1); illustrated with 5 plates (one as frontispiece). Browsing with browned leaves on the leaves of the first volume, scattered browning in the second volume. Autograph of the author pasted on the title page of volume 2. 18th century fawn-coloured basane, spines smoothly decorated, red title and endpapers, red edges. Edition of the first work on ballooning published one year after the original, rare with the second volume of the first suite of experiments. Naturist and geologist, Faujas de Saint-Fond supported financially the aerostatic researches of the Montgolfier brothers whose first balloon had risen from Annonay in June, followed in September by a balloon carrying farm animals, to finally arrive at the first human flight, succeeded by the Marquis d'Arlandes and Pilâtre de Rozier.
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