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(BALLOONING.) Faujas de Saint-Fond, Barthélemy. Beschryving der Proef-neemingen met Konstige Lugtbollen. 4 engraved plates, xx, [4], 222 pages * Vervolg der Proefneemingen. 5 engraved plates, xxxii, [8], 230 pages. 2 volumes in one. 8vo, 217x133 mm, late 19th-/early 20th-century vellum boards, flat spine gilt with decorative tooling, minor soiling on covers, decorated paper endleaves, original wrappers mounted and bound in; contents clean; cloth slipcase. Amsterdam: Jacobus van der Burgh en Zoon, 1784; 1784
first editions in dutch. "The first full-length account of the experiments with balloon flight conducted by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783"--Norman 769 (1783-84 original editions in French). DSB IX, 492-93; Printing and the Mind of Man 229.
