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FIRST AMERICAN WORK ON AVIATION GENET, EDMOND CHARLES. Memorial on the Upward Forces of Fluids. 5 engraved plates, folding table. 112 pages. 8vo,
FIRST AMERICAN WORK ON AVIATION GENET, EDMOND CHARLES. Memorial on the Upward Forces of Fluids. 5 engraved plates, folding table. 112 pages. 8vo, publisher's boards, minor spotting and soiling; foxing. Albany, 1825
- Notes: In this uncommon work, Genet contemplates steam being applied to aeronautics and the plates include a depiction of an Aerostatic Vessel. "Extremely rare and important, the first book printed in the United States on practical aeronautics and on the first patent for an aeronautical invention, by the then-naturalized former Ambassador from France and key figure in the Genet Affair"--Streeter Sale 3974; Howes G100.
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