Astra Castra. Experiments and Adventures in the Atmosphere
- Illustrated with 39 full page plates of portraits of famous Aeronauts and their Ascents including Icararus as the Frontispiece a
- London: Chapman and Hall, 1865
London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. First Edition. Illustrated with 39 full page plates of portraits of famous Aeronauts and their Ascents including Icararus as the Frontispiece and 51 vignettes in the text. xxiii, 530 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Bound in modern quarter green morocco and cloth. About fine. First Edition. Illustrated with 39 full page plates of portraits of famous Aeronauts and their Ascents including Icararus as the Frontispiece and 51 vignettes in the text. xxiii, 530 pp. 1 vols. Folio. The fullest pictorial account of ballooning, containing good reproductions of many rare prints, a bibliography, and a chronological list of ascents from 1783-1848, and incidently giving an account of meteorological observations during ascents." Brockett 12110; Gamble 373; Liebman-Wahl 676; L'Art Ancien Catalogue Flight, #250; Tissandier p. 61; Zeilinger, Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematica 20759