Aeronautica; or, Sketches Illustrative of the Theory and Practice of Aerostation;comprising an enlarged account of the late aerial expedition to Germany; By Monck Mason, Esq. Member of the 'Académie de l'Industrie française,' and of the 'Societé de statistque universelle,' etc. etc. With Plates.
London: F.C. Westley, 162, Piccadilly. 1838.
8vo, contemporary diced russia, rebacked with calf gilt, marbled edges and endpapers; pp. viii + 355; lithographic frontispiece and five plates, as called for in the list of illustrations. Ex libris labels on front pastedown. Scarce.
An account of a balloon trip from London to Weilburg in Hessen, Germany, by Thomas Monck Mason (1803-89), Charles Green (1785-1870) and Robert Hollond (1808-77). They travelled a record distance of 500 miles in 18 hours. The frontispiece has portraits of the three aeronauts with facsimile signatures; the other plates are four views of the flight and a depiction of two parachute designs. In 1844 Edgar Allan Poe wrote a hoax account of a man called Monck Mason who had just crossed the Atlantic by balloon in 72 hours; it was published in New York newpaper 'The Sun' on April 13th and was retracted two days later.
Provenance: the Carton Library, i.e. Augustus FitzGerald, 3rd Duke of Leinster (1791–1874).
[Ref: 40599] £480.00
8vo, contemporary diced russia, rebacked with calf gilt, marbled edges and endpapers; pp. viii + 355; lithographic frontispiece and five plates, as called for in the list of illustrations. Ex libris labels on front pastedown. Scarce.
An account of a balloon trip from London to Weilburg in Hessen, Germany, by Thomas Monck Mason (1803-89), Charles Green (1785-1870) and Robert Hollond (1808-77). They travelled a record distance of 500 miles in 18 hours. The frontispiece has portraits of the three aeronauts with facsimile signatures; the other plates are four views of the flight and a depiction of two parachute designs. In 1844 Edgar Allan Poe wrote a hoax account of a man called Monck Mason who had just crossed the Atlantic by balloon in 72 hours; it was published in New York newpaper 'The Sun' on April 13th and was retracted two days later.
Provenance: the Carton Library, i.e. Augustus FitzGerald, 3rd Duke of Leinster (1791–1874).
[Ref: 40599] £480.00