Through the Air

U.S.A: Arno Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1972. Reprint. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in blue cloth with silver titles, cloth has minor rubbing at corners, no inscriptions. 650 pages, illustrations in the text, appendix. A facsimilie copy of the 1873 edition, in the Literature and History of Aviation series .

New York: Arno Press, 1972. Facsimile reprint . Hardcover. Continuation of the extended title reads; "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." An expanded edition of "System of Aeronautics," first published in 1850.… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, etc.:: To-Day Printing and Publishing Company,, 1873.. First edition.. publisher's pictorial cloth.. Old ink ownership inscription; light use at extremities. . Large 8vo,. Color frontispiece; profusely illustrated.

Philadelphia: To-Day Printing and Publishing Company, 1873. Revised edition, first printing. Light foxing throughout, more so to margins of plates, frontis tissue guard and title page browned and foxed. A wide margined copy in a fine, but simple modern binding.. Modern butterscotch calf-backed marbled boards.