Brisson Mathieu Jacques (2 results)
More imagesPublished by Paris Le Boucher 1784
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, United KingdomRoger Middleton P.B.F.A.
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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 vignet…te 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.
More imagesPublished by Leboucher & Lamy,, Paris: 1761
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: poor man's rare books (mrbooks) IOBA NJB, Vineland, NJ, U.S.A.poor man's rare books (mrbooks) IOBA NJB
Contact seller3-star sellerHardcover. 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 v…olumes 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).
