FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, Barthélémy. Description... Lot 1

FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, [Barthélémy]. Description of the experiments of the aerostatic machine of MM. de Montgolfier, and of those to which this discovery gave place; Followed by Researches on the height to which the Balloon of Champ-de-Mars reached; on the route which it held; on the different degrees of gravity of the air in the layers of the atmosphere; Of a Memorandum on the inflammable gas; Of a Letter on the means of directing these Machines; Work decorated with nine plates in intaglio, representing the various Machines which were built until this day, particularly that of Versailles, & that in which the men were raised up to the height of 324 feet, &c. &c. Paris: Cuchet, 1783. First edition, in-8; xl, 299p., [7p. Approval, Privilege, Supplement, Errata], 9 plates (the n° V placed in frontispiece), 1 folding table, headbands, endpapers. Late binding (early 19th century) in half basane with small vellum corners. Binding worn but solid: top cover missing, jaws and extremities rubbed. With the handwritten bookplate of Louis Edmond O'Reilly.