Lot 205
Lunardi, Vincenzo
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
£2,000
Description
An account of the first aerial voyage in England. London: for the author, 1784. First edition, 8vo, engraved frontispiece portrait, 2 engraved folding plates, signed by the author on the half-title, with added engraved portraits of Lunardi and John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, tipped in, a ticket to Lunardi's ascension mounted and bound in after the last leaf, an article by A.M. Broadley on "The Soaring Curiosity of Samuel Johnson", from The Outlook for March 5, 1910, and uncorrected proofs of the same article bound in, blue half morocco gilt
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire