Author: FREY, CARROLL; JOHN PIERRE BLANCHARD
Title: The First Air Voyage in America: The Times, the Place, and the People of the Blanchard Balloon Voyage of January 9, 1793, Philadelphia to Woodbury. Together with a Facsimilie Reprinting of the Journal of My Forty-Fifth Ascension and the First in America
Description: Independence Square, Philadelphia: The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1943. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full grey cloth, blue lettering on spine and cover. Illustrated with several B&W reproductions.. Boards very lightly soiled, former owner's printed bookplate on ffep ("From the Aeronautical Library of Richard C. Langner"), otherwise unmarked, tight, square and clean. NEAR FINE.. B&W drawings. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 60 pp. Near Fine with no dust jacket .

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