AERONAUTIC INSTRUCTIONS 🌟 WORLD HISTORY OF HOT AIR BALLOONS 🌟RARE ANTIQUE BOOK

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Title
:
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Through the Air
author
:
- John Wise
Published
:
- To-Day printing & Publishing
Co
1873- 1st edition
Binding:
--pictorial hardcover with gilt lettering & blind-stamped design
size
= apx  9.25
"
by 6.25"
with
650
pages
with
77
[mostly] FULL PAGE
magnificent
engravings
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title continues
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A NARRATIVE OF 40
YEARS' EXPERIENCE AS AN AERONAUT.
COMPRISING
A HISTORY OF THE VARIOUS ATTEMPTS IN THE ART OF
FLYING BY ARTIFICIAL MEANS
FROM THE EARLIEST
PERIOD
DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME.
WITH AN ACCOUNT OF
THE AUTHOR'S MOST IMPORTANT AIR-VOYAGES
AND
HIS MANY THRILLING ADVENTURES AND
HAIRBREADTH ESCAPES.
ALSO,
AN APPENDIX, IN WHICH ARE GIVEN FULL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE
MANUFACTURE AND MANAGEMENT OF BALLOONS.
11 pages just for the contents -
The history of
Hot air Balloons.
Includes all the "major" players -
John Muller, John Wlikins [died in1672], Dante, De Gusman, De Bourgois, Mosment, Garnerin, Nadar, Loomis, Cocking, Green, Charles Brown,
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Plus many more.
Plus
an array of hair-raising, heartfelt, and sometimes humorous stories.
Includes science from around the world, including the Chinese! Weather and lightning, His ascent over Gettysburg [novel experience].
Instructions in the art of making balloons, parachutes, and all kinds of aeronautic machinery
- Weight of hydrogen, scale of shape to balloons, Rarefield air balloons, Pilot balloons, varnish coating, of oils, and so much more
-A must for your library!
Condition:
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carefully as they are part of the description
-all of my books are VERY OLD and have wear. I try to explain & show the worse, but I am human and
sometimes I do miss a thing or 2.
Externally-
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Boards and textblock secure. Much discoloration to the covers. Gilt remains quite bright. Tips look pretty good-just a bit worn. Spine ends with heavy wear - top one was worse than the bottom so I took a picture of it.
Internally the hinges have been glued with a brown ribbon
, and you can tell from the outside of the book [joints just don't look "right"]
Internally-
The
pages have sporadic spotting - all very legible though
. Only 2 small rips that I saw. No folds that I saw. Name written on front paste down in pencil "Dr A ??".
hinges have been glued with a brown ribbon
,
Inner joints are just OK looking-not horribly ugly, but they don't look pristine either -ribbon was glued a little too tightly making the end-papers not open correctly. The other free endpaper has been taped at gutter.  Wrinkles to the ffe papers.
A VERY RARE BOOK, in any condition!
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this book is very old and
may have accumulated bad smells along the way [musty basement/ mildew/ smoke]
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As far as I can tell -this book smell fine
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