Sales catalogue 506: Maggs Bros

Date:: 1928

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/64

Credit: Sales catalogue 506: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$THE MOST MAGNIFICENT BOOK ON AERONAUTICS. m3 BRUEY Ga)... _ Histoire aéronautique par les monuments peints, sculpteés, dessinés et gravés, des origines a 1830. With 200 splendid facsimile reproductions of aeronautical prints, etc., in black and colours and 43 pages of text. Folio. Half morocco. Paris, Marty, 1909. 735 Only 325 copies of this magnificent work were printed. 114 BULLETINS DE LA GRANDE ARMEE. 8vo. Calf, gilt. Toulon, 1812. £7 Ios A collection of Reports of the Napoleonic Army in Russia _ (in- cluding one autograph report, dated from Molodestchno, December 3rd, 1812) and the letters to the Governor-General, Count Rastopchin, of one Leppich, a ‘‘ brag- gart, who, being a mechanic, had apparently been ordered to direct the movements of the so-called infernal balloon.’’ He seems to have been quite adept at begging money from the Count for the purchase of a balloon, and complains in a letter dated August 24th, 1812: ‘‘ You do not know what difficulties I have had to con- tend with in the purchase of my balloon. Owing to the fact that my mechanics are out of practise, I have been obliged to do most of the jobs myself, and, not knowing the Russian language, I have been unable to employ any but Germans. All this has prevented me from making my ascent to-day, but at any rate, my balloon is purchased . . . to-morrow without fail, I will go up at mid-day, and in a few hours, the aerostat will be visible from Moscow.”’ 115 BURNEY (amiss). Oeuvres. 7 vols., 12mo. Old French red morocco, three-line fillet border on sides, gilt backs, inside dentelles, g. e. Geneve, 1784. {10 10s$

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