NADAR. On land & in the air Memoirs of the Giant.... Lot 35

NADAR. On land & in the air Memoirs of the Giant. With an Introduction by M. Babinet. Paris: E. Dentu, 1864. First edition, in-8; Introduction, xx (Oraisons funèbres de Jean-Baptiste Dupuis-Delcourt et Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier), 21-439p.Bound in brown half-chagrin with corners (open spine to be restored, spine darkened), illustrated cover preserved, foxing. Copy with a letter from Nadar on the first free endpaper, dated Paris [September] 64: "A mon bon ami Bouju son Nadar" [this is probably Ernest Bouju, publisher and patron who edited George Sand]. Opposite is Nadar's label with his motto "Quand même". Attached: Extract from a handwritten letter addressed to the editor of "l'Aéronaute" [Gaston Tissandier] by Nadar (?) concerning aeronautical observations for the defense of Paris; and a sheet of paper with the letterhead of the Société de Navigation aérienne, on which Nadar has scribbled "Mon cher Bouju, Peut vous toujours hospitaliser le Géant?"