{"product_id":"23320-ballooning-m-faujas-de-saint-ford-montgolfier-joseph-michel-montgolfier-jacques-etienne-1745-1799-description-des-experiences-de-la-machine-aerostatique-de-mm-de-montgolfier-et-de-celles-auxquelles-cette","title":"[Ballooning] M. Faujas de Saint-Ford. (1741 - 1819) [Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel. (1740 – 26 June 1810) \u0026 Montgolfier, Jacques-Étienne 1745 – 1799)] Description des expériences de la machine aérostatique de MM. de Montgolfier, et de celles auxquelles cette","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e8vo. 19.5x12.5 cm (7¾x5\").\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e[i-iii] iv-xl, [1] 2-299, [3], 9 engraved plates (plate v as frontispiece).  Contemporary full vellum with five raised bands, pages edged in red. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eWith the ownership signature “Dutillet” to the inside front board in a contemporary hand, raising the intriguing possibility that this copy hails from the family of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eÉvrard Titon du Tillet (1677-1762), great patron of the arts and secretary to Louis XIV, whose family mansion “La Folie Titon”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003ewas the sight of the first\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e tethered balloon flight on October 19th, 1783 (Réveillon, de Rozier and de Villette). A later ownership signature “Allonneaud” in pencil, on the blank recto of the frontis engraving.  A few pages slightly irregularly cut, including one partially separating from the gutter, else fine.  References: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eDibner, Heralds of Science 179; PMM 229; Norman 769; Sparrow, Milestones of Science 179; Tissandier p.21.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eThis volume is the rare true first issue of the first edition of the earliest account of the first aerial voyage in history. Etienne and Joseph Montgolfier were pioneers in the field of aerostatics and made history in November \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"match\" style=\"\"\u003e1783\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e with the first hot air balloon to carry passengers. Only a small number \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eof this volume were issued separately; when volume 2 was published the following year, volume 1 was reissued with a 4-page supplement, describing the voyage of November 20, 1783, and this appears in virtually all copies encountered on the market. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eIn June of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"match\" style=\"\"\u003e1783\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, the Montgolfier brothers launched a balloon over Annonay. \"This feat, however, was surpassed...in September when they successfully launched a balloon carrying a sheep, a cock and a duck, and even more sensationally in November when, after some tethered experiments, Pilatre de Rozier, accompanied by the Marquis d'Arlandes, made the first aerial voyage in history. They ascended from the Chateau de la Muette in the Bois de Boulogne, sustained their flight for five-and-a-half miles across Paris and descended after twenty-five minutes on the outskirts of the city.\" (PMM). The experiment, which was witnessed by Benjamin Franklin, the Dauphin, amongst many others, marks the real beginning of the history of manned flight. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eSaint-Fond, a notable French geologist, was their financer and supporter and his chronicle became ‘the first serious treatise on aerostation as a practical possibility’ (PMM), detailing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eboth the event itself and the theoretical and practical science which went into making the flights a success.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093842448543,"sku":"23320","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/28Ballooning_29_M._Faujas_de_Saint-Ford_Description_des_experiences_23320g.jpg?v=1722190748","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/23320-ballooning-m-faujas-de-saint-ford-montgolfier-joseph-michel-montgolfier-jacques-etienne-1745-1799-description-des-experiences-de-la-machine-aerostatique-de-mm-de-montgolfier-et-de-celles-auxquelles-cette","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}