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‎Glaisher’s travels in the air.‎

‎London, Richard Bentley, 1871, in-8vo, XIII + 398 p. with 118 woodcut illustrations small library-stamp on frontispiece and titlepage „supreme courts library“. bound in contemp. Half-leather with corners, spine on 5 bands with title on red morocco.‎

‎First English edition. Very fine copy. Ballooning over big cities (a. o. London) & The high mountain regions. So on page 1 with a woodcut illustration on the ascent of Mont-Blanc / pages 2, 3 & 4 decriptions on Mont-Blanc. Chapter IX : The high regions’ On p.101 a woodcut ill. ,Charles and de Saussure’. Image disp.‎