Ballons Dirigeables, First Edition (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ (illustrator). 1st Edition. Royal octavo. Pp. (ii), 380. With 174 illustrations to text. Two appendices. HARDCOVER, bound in full cloth, shelf label to spine, original wrapper laid-down, old institutional stamps, dampmark to margin of first leaves. In a very good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Publication of Revue du Génie militaire. TIMO-5 OUT.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Edition originale. gr. in-8 rel. pleine perc. rouge (16,5 x 25), 103 p., 1ère édition, 40 illustrations et figures, défauts mineurs à la reliure, intérieur très propre, bon état. Une étude qui examine les caractéristiques essentielles de la navigation aérienne par ballons dirigeables, qui rappelle les principales étapes qu'il a fallu parcourir pour arriver à la situation actuelle ; qui résume les expériences les plus récentes effectuées en France et à l'étranger. Voir le sommaire sur photos jointes.

couverture souple. Imp. de A. Storck | Lyon 1887 | 14 x 20.50 cm | agrafé | Edition originale. Plats volants comportant de petits manques angulaires. Rare brochure en l'état. | [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS] First edition. Covers detached with small corner losses. Rare pamphlet, as is. *.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good plus. First edition. 103 pages with photographs and illustrations, plus abbreviated bibliography and contents. Bound in original dark blue cloth with beveled edges and lettering and illustrations in orange. Moderate wear to lower edges and lower corners. A very good plus copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Title translated into English; The Airships; Comprehensive Study of Management of Balloon Made Attempts and New Projects." 354 pages with chapters on the origins of aeronautics, the theory of the free balloon, balloon construction, construction of an airship, filling the balloon and dirigible and launch, observation instruments, resistance to progress, propulsion, stability, and project tests, etc. Formulae and illustrations throughout plus catalog of books in the rear. Bound in original maroon cloth with lettering in gilt. A near fine copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's red cloth gilt. 354pp., illustrations. A bit of wear to the crown, and to one corner, still a bright, very good or better copy.

Condition: Very good plus. First Edition. Rare and spectacular French game of aerostatic navigation from the great Age of Airships. Wonderful turn-of-the-century game of dirigible adventure and aetheric disaster for six players. To traverse the 75 numbered stations of the playing board, an airship must bypass or overcome a host of dangers between launch and landing: lightning strikes, explosions, fires, loss of cargo and passengers, sailors in need of air rescue, and the most embarrassing dirigible mishap of all: accidental gas-bag puncture by cathedral spires. The estimated date of manufacture, midway between the balloon marvels of Jules Verne and the Hindenburg disaster, coincides with competition for the Deutsch de la Meurthe aviation prize, a bounty of 100,000 francs offered in 1900 to the first machine capable of flying a round trip from the Parc Saint Cloud to the Eiffel Tower in Paris in under 30 minutes; the prize was won by Alberto Santos-Dumont's Airship Number 6 in 1901, after a series of failures echoed in several of the stations and landmarks of the EN BALLONS gameboard. The following year, aviator Augusto Severo de Albuquerque Maranhão's dirigible exploded over Paris; the tragedy was reconstructed in a lost George Méliès silent film, THE CATASTROPHE OF THE BALLOON "LE PAX" (1902). At the dawn of the twentieth century, the skies of Paris were filled with flaming airships; what a time to be young, alive, and playing board games. 17.5'' x 13'' (box). Original chromolithographed box, containing: original game board, printed on four 16.75'' x 12'' chromolithographed panels (no longer connected); six painted metal model dirigible playing pieces; two six-sided dice; two cardboard cones, one cardboard dish, and six small cardboard squares numbered 1 through 6 respectively; and one pink fabric pouch containing over 70 opalescent pastel-colored necco wafer-esque round glass tokens. Lacking only the original instruction sheet. Moderate fraying and wear to edges of box and playing boards. Mild wear to other game pieces.

8°. III, 354 p. Avec 98 illustrations dans le texte. Relliure pleine toile. Edition originale. - Bel exemplaire de cette rare publication. Sprache: französisch.