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FAUJUS-DE-SAINT-FOND, Barthelemy (1741-1819). Description des Experiences de la Machine Aeìrostatique de MM. de Montgolfier.
Lot 34

FAUJUS-DE-SAINT-FOND, Barthelemy (1741-1819). Description des Experiences de la Machine Aeìrostatique de MM. de Montgolfier.

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FAUJUS-DE-SAINT-FOND, Barthelemy (1741-1819). Description des Experiences de la Machine Aeìrostatique de MM. de Montgolfier.

Paris; Bruxelles:Chez B. Le Francq, MDCC.LXXXIV [1784].




xxix, 204 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates: illustrations, charts, 1 folded table. (Plates numbers and bound as follows, Frontis., iii, ix, iv, 8, vi, vii, ii, i. Plates i and ii bound upside down.)

Bound in blind stamped leather, raised bands, gilt spine title, marbled endpapers, all edged red. With headpieces and tailpieces.

H: 8 W: 5 in.

With bookplate at front pastedown, Ex libris, Alph. Anglade / No. 134 / Index 6, with Dr. and P: van Ypersele j: U : L: ink on t.p. With, “ex Bibliotheca / P: van Ypersele j: U : L et flurica flandrid [?]vocati,” in ink on recto of frontis.

Jean-Pascale van Ypersele was a professor of climatology and environmental sciences at the Universite catholique de Louvain in Belgium.
 

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Very good. Spine edges rubbed, front hinges split.

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Height: 8.00
Width: 5.00

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From the Estate of John A. Davidson, Jr. Proceeds to benefit the APL of Lorain County and the Dittrick Museum. With bookplate at front pastedown, Ex libris, Alph. Anglade / No. 134 / Index 6, with Dr. and P: van Ypersele j: U : L: ink on t.p. With, “ex Bibliotheca / P: van Ypersele j: U : L et flurica flandrid [?]vocati,” in ink on recto of frontis. Jean-Pascale van Ypersele was a professor of climatology and environmental sciences at the Universite catholique de Louvain in Belgium.

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