How to navigate in the air: first edition of a rare early brochure on a dirigible (manoeuvrable balloon)

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1 SANSON, A.J. & M. DUPUIS-DELCOURT.
Paris, De Boulé et Comp., for Ledoyen March 1841. 8vo. In the original wrappers with a large fascinating lithographed plate on the front cover with an angel floating over the globe and a flying dirigible, and blowing a trumpet with the motto 'Conquête de l'aire'. With large spectacular folding lithographed plate (40x23,5 cm) by the Imp. Lithogr. Bouis (Rue Montesquieu, Paris) of the dirigible, titled 'Navire Aèrien dirigeable, Système Sanson Père et Fils'; the various units separately illustrated: a 'Mécanisme de transmission de mouvement aux ailes, vue de profil', the 'Regulateur', and the 'Roues locomotives vues de profuil. Manivelle vue de face', a smaller woodcut of the same dirigible  on p. 5. 32 pp. Full description >>

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