1784 1st Le Francq Edtn With Provenance DESCRIPTION DES EXPERIENCES DE LA MACHINE AEROSTATIQUE DE MM. DE MONTGOLFIER By M. Faujas de Saint-Fond Very Good Science

1784 1st Le Francq Edition With Provenance

DESCRIPTION DES EXPERIENCES DE LA MACHINE AEROSTATIQUE DE MM. DE MONTGOLFIER
Volume 1
By M. Faujas de Saint-Fond

Author Bio: Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741–1819) was a French geologist, traveller, and early chronicler of ballooning. His Description des expériences de la machine aérostatique de MM. de Montgolfier was published in two volumes in 1783–1784.

Provenance: Bookplate of Harold Roxbee Cox, Baron Kings Norton of Wotton Underwood.

Synopsis: An important contemporary account of the Montgolfier balloon experiments and one of the earliest substantial printed works on practical aerostation. This copy is the 1784 Le Francq issue of Volume I of Faujas de Saint-Fond’s two-volume work. The text records the Montgolfiers’ pioneering hot-air balloon experiments of 1783 and includes discussion of related developments in early ballooning, including hydrogen-balloon research associated with Jacques Charles. Faujas de Saint-Fond was among the earliest and most enthusiastic supporters of aerostation, and his work remains one of the key contemporary sources for the first balloon experiments.

Format: Hardcover, Octavo (Standard) (8vo 6 × 9 in 152 × 229 mm )
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Language: French

Published By: Chez B. Le Francq, Paris

Condition Report:
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Very Good - Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 8 further engraved plates, 2 also hand-coloured; some contemporary marginal annotations; frontispiece and title page trimmed at the foot; later endpapers with armorial bookplate to the front endpaper; contemporary gilt-decorated full calf, boards and spine lightly marked and rubbed. A 1784 Le Francq reissue of the first volume originally published by Cuchet in 1783; the typographical setting differs from the Cuchet edition. The approval is dated Paris, 19 October 1783, and the royal privilege granted to Cuchet is dated Fontainebleau, 29 October 1783. Binding: Contemporary full calf, 8vo (approx. 152 x 229 mm). Collation: 204 pp. Complete; engraved frontispiece and 8 further engraved plates (9 plates total), with the frontispiece and 2 plates hand-coloured. Please see Photos as part of condition report. References: PMM 229 Dibner 179 Norman 769 (for the work) this 1784 Le Francq issue also cited in Tissandier 27, Liebmann-W. 978, Brockett 4377f, Sigmundt 96, and Kat. Brug 65.

SKU: BTETM0002384

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