| Title: |
An Exact and Authentic Narrative of M. Blanchard’s Third Aerial Voyage, from Rouen in Normandy, on the 18th of July, 1784. Accompanied by M. Boby; in which they traversed a space of forty-five miles in two hours and a quarter, inclusive of the time employed in raising and depressing the machine in the air. To which are added Four Certificates, testifying the truth of the relation, and signed by several respectable characters. Translated from the French of M. Blanchard. |
| Description: |
Printed by and for C. Heydinger. 1784. First Edition, 4to, viii,17,[1]pp., engraved frontispiece of the air ship (inner margin cropped, small tear to outer margin, several page numbers shaved, small piece of outer blank margin missing from final leaf, frontis., offset unto title, lightly browned throughout, disbound, purpose-made paper folder. Jean Pierre Blanchard (1753-1809), French aeronaut, together with the American, John Jeffries, made the first aerial crossing of the English Channel, and who also made the first balloon ascent in America. This is an important account of Blanchard’s observations during his third aerial flight, setting out from Rouen and flying for 45 miles in little more than two hours, great speed in the 18th century. ESTC listing two variant editions, this being ESTC T33609. |
