BLANCHARD, Jean Pierre]. DUCHOSAL, [Marie Emillie Guillaume]. Blanchard, Poeme en Deux Chants. Rouen, et se trove a Paris: Marchands, 1784. 8 o (194 x 125 mm). Modern boards. FIRST EDITION. This early and scarce poem celebrates one of the first aerial showman. In 1785, Blanchard was the first to cross the English Channel by air, and in 1793, the first to conduct an aerial flight in the United States. Tissandier p.47 records the 1786 Brussells edition, only noting the present first edition. Not in BLC; NUC locates only the copy at the Library of Congress. RARE.
BLANCHARD, Jean Pierre]. DUCHOSAL, [Marie Emillie Guillaume]. Blanchard, Poeme en Deux Chants. Rouen, et se trove a Paris: Marchands, 1784. 8 o (194 x 125 mm). Modern boards. FIRST EDITION. This early and scarce poem celebrates one of the first aerial showman. In 1785, Blanchard was the first to cross the English Channel by air, and in 1793, the first to conduct an aerial flight in the United States. Tissandier p.47 records the 1786 Brussells edition, only noting the present first edition. Not in BLC; NUC locates only the copy at the Library of Congress. RARE.
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