1887 My Life and Balloon Experiences with a Supplementary Chapter on Military Ballooning

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First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

First edition. Scarce work. With a portrait frontispiece. The life and experiences of Henry Tracey Coxwell, an English aeronaut and writer on ballooning active over the British Isles and continental Europe in the mid-to late nineteenth century. Coxwell's achievements include: establishing and leading two military balloon companies in Cologne, Germany at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870; leading the first aerial trip in England for purposes of photography; and piloting a British Association flight that achieved a record altitude of at least 29,000 ft. With publisher's advertisements to the rear.