My Life and Balloon Experiences, with a Supplementary Chapter on Military Ballooning.

Coxwell, Henry

Language: English

Published by W.H. Allen & Co., 1887

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Boards a bit soiled with 1 inch tear to fore edge of rear board, spine toned, hinges weakening, a couple pages lightly soiled. 1887 Hard Cover. 228, 44, [3] pp. Original teal cloth, gilt titles with black and gold decorations. Publisher catalog bound in following text. Photograph of author mounted as frontispiece by publisher. English aeronaut and writer about ballooning active over the British Isles and continental Europe in the mid-to late nineteenth century. His achievements included having established and led two military balloon companies in Cologne, Germany at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, leading the first aerial trip in England for purposes of photography (with Henry Negretti in 1863), piloting a British Association flight from Wolverhampton, England that achieved a record altitude with James Glaisher in 1862, reaching at least 29,000 ft (8,800 m), and perhaps as high as 35,000 to 37,000 ft (10,700 to 11,300 m), as well as founding The Balloon, or Aerostatic Magazine (in 1845) and collecting his experiences in an autobiography, My Life and Balloon Experiences (from 1887 to 1890). He was referred to as the foremost balloonist of the last half of the nineteenth century by the English-language periodical, Illustrated London News, in January 1900.…

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Title
My Life and Balloon Experiences, with a Supplementary Chapter on Military Ballooning.
Author
Coxwell, Henry
Publisher
W.H. Allen & Co.
Publication year
1887
Condition
Good
Dust jacket
No Jacket
Binding
Hard Cover
Language
English
Item weight
17 ounces

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