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499 AERONAUTIK. - Mason, (Thomas) Monck. Account of the late Aeronautical Expedition from London to Weilburg, accomplished by Robert Hollond, Esq. Monck Mason, Esq. and Charles Green Aeronaut. Ldn., Westley etc., 1836. 8°. 52 SS., 1, 1 w. Bll. OLwd.-Umschl. mit Vorderdeckelsch. in Lwd.-Decke u. Lwd.-Schuber. Schätzpreis: *R (500,- €) Liebmann/W. 1149; vgl. Brug 85, Liebmann/W. 1150 u. Sigmundt/N. 129 (dt. Ausgabe 1837). - Seltene erste Ausgabe. - "Charles Green (1785-1870) made 526 balloon ascents and was responsible for introducing, in 1821, balloons filled with coal gas... his most famous flight was in 1836 in the Royal Vauxhall Balloon, which he constructed with Robert Holland, M. P., and T. Monk Mason. Taking off from the Vauxhall Gardens on 7 November, he landed at Weilburg, Nassau, in Germany after flying about 480 miles in eighteen hours. The Royal Vauxhall Balloon was renamed the Great Balloon of Nassau
499 AERONAUTIK. - Mason, (Thomas) Monck. Account of the late Aeronautical Expedition from London to Weilburg, accomplished by Robert Hollond, Esq. Monck Mason, Esq. and Charles Green Aeronaut. Ldn., Westley etc., 1836. 8°. 52 SS., 1, 1 w. Bll. OLwd.-Umschl. mit Vorderdeckelsch. in Lwd.-Decke u. Lwd.-Schuber. Schätzpreis: *R (500,- €) Liebmann/W. 1149; vgl. Brug 85, Liebmann/W. 1150 u. Sigmundt/N. 129 (dt. Ausgabe 1837). - Seltene erste Ausgabe. - "Charles Green (1785-1870) made 526 balloon ascents and was responsible for introducing, in 1821, balloons filled with coal gas... his most famous flight was in 1836 in the Royal Vauxhall Balloon, which he constructed with Robert Holland, M. P., and T. Monk Mason. Taking off from the Vauxhall Gardens on 7 November, he landed at Weilburg, Nassau, in Germany after flying about 480 miles in eighteen hours. The Royal Vauxhall Balloon was renamed the Great Balloon of Nassau