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[AVIATION]. CAVALLO, Tiberius (1749-1809). The History and Practice of Aerostation. London: Printed for the Author and Sold by C. Dilly…, 1785]. 8vo. With 2 folding plates of ballooning inserted at rear. viii, [1]-[334] pp. Bound in modern library binding of full textured brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front board stamped in blind (“Franklin Institute”; text toned with occasional soiling, creasing, title-page and plates with perforated stamps of the “Franklin Institute Philadelphia”, library bookplate on fp.) Very good. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE TREATISE ON BALLOONING, with detailed accounts of eighteenth-century ascents. Brockett 2610.