Les ballons dirigeables. Expériences de M. Henri Giffard en 1852 et en 1855 et de M. Dupuy de Lôme en 1872.

8vo: vii-[1 bl.]-62 pp. (some ff. uncut).

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 work on dirigible balloons (airships) and attempts made by the engineer Giffard and naval architect Dupuy de Lôme. Illustrated with 3 in-text. The author puts into perspective the experiments and results of Dupuy de Lôme, to whom all the credit is given, with those of Giffard. The aviator, chemist and meteorologist Gaston Tissandier (1843-1899) escaped from besieged Paris in a balloon in September 1870. In 1883, 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. 35. - Maggs Bros., 237.