WISE, JOHN. A System of Aeronautics, comprehending Its Earliest Investigations, and Modern Practice and Art . . . With a Brief Historyof the Author's Fifteen Years' Experience in Aerial Voyages. Engraved frontispiece portrait; 12 lithographed plates

WISE, JOHN. A System of Aeronautics, comprehending Its Earliest Investigations, and Modern Practice and Art . . . With a Brief Historyof the Author's Fifteen Years' Experience in Aerial Voyages. Engraved frontispiece portrait; 12 lithographed plates of balloons. Errata slip 8vo, original cloth, spine ends chipped. Philadelphia: Joseph A. Speel, 1850 E300-500 FIRST EDITION. Brockett 12945; Randers-Pehrson &Renstrom 28.