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• Title:Lettre à M. de *** sur son projet de voyager avec la sphère aërostatique de M. de Montgolfier : avec figure.
  
• Publication:A Aéoropolis, sur la Place des Nues : Chez Zéphirolin le jeune ; Et se trouve à Paris : Chez les marchands de feuilles volantes, l'an de la lune [1783]
  
• Physical Description:16 pages, 1 folded leaf of plates : illustration ; 21 cm (8vo)
  

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: 53 L967 783
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes:Bound in modern half morocco and marbled paper boards by Ateliers Laurenchet; title and date gold stamped on spine. For further information, consult library staff.
    
  • Provenance:Martayan Lan Rare Books; July 2019.
    Formerly owned by Dr. Abel Hureau de Villeneuve, with his stamp on blank bottom margin of title page; also with library stamp of the Société de Navigation Aérienne on verso of engraving and on first text leaf.
    

   
• Notes:Fictitious imprint.
  Anonymous author.
  Signatures: A⁸.
  Woodcuts: title vignette, headpiece.
  
• Format:Book
• Subjects:Airships--Early works to 1800.
  Balloons--Early works to 1800.
  Balloons in art--Early works to 1800.
  Airships.
  Balloons (Aircraft)
  Balloons.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Hureau de Villenuve, Abel, 1833-1898--Stamp.
  Société française de navigation aérienne--Stamp.
  
• Genre/Form:Satires.
  Early works.
  
• Also listed under:France.