[Aeronautics] TISSANDIER, Gaston Le grand ballon captif à vapeur de M. Henry Giffard. Cour des Tuileries - Paris, Avec de nombreuses illustrations par Albert Tissandier. Paris, G. Masson, July 8vo: [front. incl.]-[pp.; pl. (brown staining, some foxing). Mod. half black morroco, gilt marbled paper on covers, gilt titled spine with two raised bands orn. with a central tool depicting Icarus, red top-edge, wr. pres. First edition of the description of the captive balloon designed and made by Henri Giffard for the "Exposition universelle de (the third Paris World Fair). Illustrated with plates, 2 double-page pl., 8 full-page ill. and in-text by Albert Tissandier (1839-1906), brother of Gaston, also aeronaut and architect. The aviator, chemist and meteorologist Gaston Tissandier (1843-1899), who escaped from besieged Paris in a balloon in September beat, together with his brother Albert, the record time for a balloon flight; theirs lasted hours and minutes. In he added an electric motor to an airship, creating the first electric-powered flight. He is the author of several books and of a bibliography on aeronautics. Ref. Tissandier, Bibliogr. aéronautique, p. - Maggs Bros.,
[Aeronautics] TISSANDIER, Gaston Le grand ballon captif à vapeur de M. Henry Giffard. Cour des Tuileries - Paris, Avec de nombreuses illustrations par Albert Tissandier. Paris, G. Masson, July 8vo: [front. incl.]-[pp.; pl. (brown staining, some foxing). Mod. half black morroco, gilt marbled paper on covers, gilt titled spine with two raised bands orn. with a central tool depicting Icarus, red top-edge, wr. pres. First edition of the description of the captive balloon designed and made by Henri Giffard for the "Exposition universelle de (the third Paris World Fair). Illustrated with plates, 2 double-page pl., 8 full-page ill. and in-text by Albert Tissandier (1839-1906), brother of Gaston, also aeronaut and architect. The aviator, chemist and meteorologist Gaston Tissandier (1843-1899), who escaped from besieged Paris in a balloon in September beat, together with his brother Albert, the record time for a balloon flight; theirs lasted hours and minutes. In he added an electric motor to an airship, creating the first electric-powered flight. He is the author of several books and of a bibliography on aeronautics. Ref. Tissandier, Bibliogr. aéronautique, p. - Maggs Bros.,
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