FAUJAS de SAINT-FOND (Barthélemy). Description... Lot 294

FAUJAS de SAINT-FOND (Barthélemy). Description des expériences de la machine aérostatique de MM. de Montgolfier, et de celles auxquelles cette découverte a donné lieu...Work adorned with nine plates. Second edition. [followed by:] Première suite de la description des expériences aérostatiques de MM. de Montgolfier. Tome second. With five plates. Paris, Cuchet, 1784. Two volumes in-8°, xl-299-(2) pp. with a folding table and 8 (of 9) plates in volume I (cut in the lower part of plate 8, but the balloon is intact) 366 pp. 1 errata leaf and 2 (4 and 5) of 5 plates in volume II, blond marbled calf, smooth spine richly decorated with gilt, gilt fillet on the edges, red edges (period binding). 3 damaged headbands, cracked hinge, missing title-piece on volume II. Sought-after work, unfortunately incomplete. AP