Through the Air: A Narrative of Forty Years' Experience as an Aeronaut. Comprising a History of the Various Attempts in the Art of Flying by Artificial Means from the Earliest Period Down to the Present, with an Account of the Author's Most Important Air-Voyages and His Many Thrilling Adventures and Hairbreadth Escapes, Also, An Appendix in Which are Given Full Instructions for the Manufacture and Management of Balloons.
first edition
1873.
by Wise, John.
To-Day Printing and Publishing Company, Philadelphia: 1873. Revised edition, first printing. Light foxing throughout, more so to margins of plates, frontis tissue guard and title page browned and foxed. A wide margined copy in a fine, but simple modern binding. Color frontis and numerous full page b&w engravings throughout. Modern butterscotch calf-backed marbled boards. (Inventory #: Embry 192378)