Wonderful balloon ascents; or the conquest of the skies. A history of balloons and balloon voyages

New York: Charles Scribner & Co, 1870. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. With half-title, frontispiece, 16 additional full-page plates, and 20 plates within publisher’s advertisements for the Illustrated Library of Wonders. Half-calf over marbled boards, losses to calf at top right corner of front board, head of spine chipped, marbled edges and end-papers; text is slightly toned. Overall a very good and enjoyable copy. First edition in English of this popular history of balloons and the adventurers who used them to tame the sky.