MORVEAU, CHAUSSIER, BERTRAND.Description of the... Lot 4

[MORVEAU, CHAUSSIER, BERTRAND].Description of the aerostat "L'Académie de Dijon". Containing the details of the processes, the theory of operations, the drawings of the machines & the reports of experiments. The whole extracted from the account given to this Society by MM. de Morveau, Chaussier & Bertrand. Followed by an Essay on the application of the discovery of MM. de Montgolfier, to the extraction of water from the depths of mines [by Morveau]. Dijon: Causse, and Paris: Théophile Barrois, 1784. First edition, in-8; [ii], v, [i: Approbation, Errata], 224p. 4 folding plates. Portrait of Chaussier added in fine.Vintage binding in blond basane, smooth spine decorated with endowed fillets. Upper spine frayed, rubbed at extremities, good condition inside; with the armorial bookplate of the "Bibliothèque de Mr. le Cte. Richard de Vesvrotte". Vesvrotte was president of the Chambre des Comptes de Bourgogne. He was present on June 12, 1784 at the arrival of the balloon "Académie de Dijon" directed by Morveau and Virly, and was among the signatories of the minutes of the aerostatic test. A small handwritten note on page 211 indicates his presence at the descent of the balloon.