Brisson Mathieu Jacques (2 results)

TITLE CONTINUED: Pour servir de Supplement a son Dictionnaire raisonne de Physique. Contenant: L'idée d'un Aérostat; Rapport fait à l'Académie des Sciences sur la MACHINE AEROSTATIQUE inventée par MM. DE MONGOLFIER; Moyens de diriger les Ballons. FIRST EDITION 1784. 4to, approximately 260 x 195 mm, 10 x 7½ inches, woodcut vignette to title page, large floral headpiece to first page, pages: [2], 1-34, rebound in quarter calf with gilt lettered label and gilt decoration to spine over paper boards, vellum tips to corners, new endpapers, edges stained red. Pale age-browning throughout, last page has brown stained corners (see image), occasional small brown spot. Very good copy with attractive spine. See: Gaston Tissandier, Bibliographie Aeronautique, page 15, listing the smaller 8vo edition only. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition (?). 12 lbs B&W Illustrations; [4], xvi, 708; [4], 769 pages, including half-titles; 90 engraved plates. [2] (of [6]) pages; [2], 34 pages; plate volume lacks half-title and leaf after title but has all plates. Together, 4 volumes in 3. 4to, 254x193 mm, first 2 volumes in contemporary mottled calf gilt, third in contemporary 1/2 calf; dampstaining in gutters at end of Volume 2, contents otherwise clean. 19th-century religious institutional stamp on titles. NOTES; first edition, complete with the supplement on ballooning. DSB II, 474; Liebmann & Wahl 990 (octavo edition of the supplement).