Guerre de 1870-1871. Les correspondances par ballon monté du siège de Paris.

8vo: [4]-ii-[2]-119-[2] pp. (stains).

Sewn.

First edition of this work on airmail by balloon during the Siege of Paris, specifically focusing on the mail postage. The fold. page 113 is a table by Théodore & Gaston Mangin containing all the departures of balloons, their names, names of aeronauts, times of landing, etc. With full-page and in-text ill.
Joined, same place and publisher: Le Pileur, J. - La poste par ballons montés 1870-1871. 1943. 8vo. Sewn. Work dealing with the same subject as the previous one, conceived with L. François, but finished by Le Pileur after the death of the first. With full-page and in-text ill., and at the end a fold. map indicating in red the places where balloons have crashed. Prov. Stamp on title. (2 vol.)