WASHINGTON, GEORGE, President ]. JEFFRIES, JOHN. A Narrative of the Two Aerial Voyages of Doctor Jeffries with Mons. Blanchard; With Meteorological Observations and Remarks. The First Voyage, on the thirtieth of November, 1784, from London to Kent: the Second, on the Seventh of January, 1785, from England into France. London: Printed for the Author 1786. 4to, 263 x 211 mm. (10 5/16 x 8 1/4 in.), contemporary American(?) polished tree calf, covers bordered with narrow gilt roll, smooth spine gilt in six compartments with an urn and floral tools, red morocco gilt-lettered label, scattered light foxing and spotting, neatly rebacked preserving original spine, edges and corners carefully repaired, dark blue morocco pull-off slipcase. FIRST EDITION. Portrait frontispiece engraved by Caroline Watson after J. Russell "Crayon Painter to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales," engraved plate of the monumental stele commemorating the trans-channel balloon flight, section title preceding the account of each voyage. On page 60, where the text of the inscriptions on the monument is given, an unknown contemporary hand has corrected John Jeffries' identification as "Brittanicus" to "Americanus" in two places. GEORGE WASHINGTON'S COPY, WITH HIS VERY BOLD SIGNATURE "Geo: Washington" on the titlepage. Lane, Inventory of George Washington's Library 11; Rosenbach, A Book Hunter's Holiday , p. 134. A volume which links Washington to Jefferys, the first American aeronaut, and his celebrated balloon ascensions with Blanchard. Jeffries (1744-1819), a physician, was born in Boston, attended Harvard and earned a medical degree in Aberdeen, Scotland. When the Revolution broke out he was among the loyalists who fled to Halifax, Nova Scotia when Boston was evacuated; he served as a surgeon in the British army in the Savannah and Charleston campaigns. Returning to England, he pursued his research on air and its properties, culminating in the two historic balloon ascents with Blanchard, the most famous being the trans-channel flight from Dover on 7 December. In Paris after that flight, Jeffries dined with Franklin and later met John Paul Jones. He returned to Boston in 1790. Blanchard himself came to America in 1794 and, with Washington's blessing, made the first balloon ascent in America in Philadelphia that year, with Washington in the crowd of observers. Provenance : George Washington, signature on title (listed in the 1810 inventory of Mount Vernon's contents -- Abel Cary Thomas (sale, Anderson Galleries 15 January 1936, lot 480) -- The Rosenbach Company, catalogue 1938, item 11 -- John M. Schiff (sale, Sotheby's, 11 December 1990, lot 345).
WASHINGTON, GEORGE, President ]. JEFFRIES, JOHN. A Narrative of the Two Aerial Voyages of Doctor Jeffries with Mons. Blanchard; With Meteorological Observations and Remarks. The First Voyage, on the thirtieth of November, 1784, from London to Kent: the Second, on the Seventh of January, 1785, from England into France. London: Printed for the Author 1786. 4to, 263 x 211 mm. (10 5/16 x 8 1/4 in.), contemporary American(?) polished tree calf, covers bordered with narrow gilt roll, smooth spine gilt in six compartments with an urn and floral tools, red morocco gilt-lettered label, scattered light foxing and spotting, neatly rebacked preserving original spine, edges and corners carefully repaired, dark blue morocco pull-off slipcase. FIRST EDITION. Portrait frontispiece engraved by Caroline Watson after J. Russell "Crayon Painter to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales," engraved plate of the monumental stele commemorating the trans-channel balloon flight, section title preceding the account of each voyage. On page 60, where the text of the inscriptions on the monument is given, an unknown contemporary hand has corrected John Jeffries' identification as "Brittanicus" to "Americanus" in two places. GEORGE WASHINGTON'S COPY, WITH HIS VERY BOLD SIGNATURE "Geo: Washington" on the titlepage. Lane, Inventory of George Washington's Library 11; Rosenbach, A Book Hunter's Holiday , p. 134. A volume which links Washington to Jefferys, the first American aeronaut, and his celebrated balloon ascensions with Blanchard. Jeffries (1744-1819), a physician, was born in Boston, attended Harvard and earned a medical degree in Aberdeen, Scotland. When the Revolution broke out he was among the loyalists who fled to Halifax, Nova Scotia when Boston was evacuated; he served as a surgeon in the British army in the Savannah and Charleston campaigns. Returning to England, he pursued his research on air and its properties, culminating in the two historic balloon ascents with Blanchard, the most famous being the trans-channel flight from Dover on 7 December. In Paris after that flight, Jeffries dined with Franklin and later met John Paul Jones. He returned to Boston in 1790. Blanchard himself came to America in 1794 and, with Washington's blessing, made the first balloon ascent in America in Philadelphia that year, with Washington in the crowd of observers. Provenance : George Washington, signature on title (listed in the 1810 inventory of Mount Vernon's contents -- Abel Cary Thomas (sale, Anderson Galleries 15 January 1936, lot 480) -- The Rosenbach Company, catalogue 1938, item 11 -- John M. Schiff (sale, Sotheby's, 11 December 1990, lot 345).
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