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FLAMMARION (Camille). Les Ballons et les Voyages Aériens. Paris. 1874. - FLAMMARION (Camille) Les Ballons et les Voyages Aériens . Troisième édition, revue et augmentée. Illustrée de 34 vignettes sur bois par P. Sellier. Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1874. [4], 344 pp.: il.; 180 mm. Third edition, revised and enlarged, of a work first published in 1867 in the ”Bibliothèque des Merveilles” collection of the Hachette Bookstore. The name Fulgence Marion is a pseudonym under which the astronomer Camille Flammarion signed several volumes of scientific dissemination in this collection. The work traces the history of aerostation and balloon travel, from the first experiments of the Montgolfier brothers to the author's contemporary ascents. This third edition adds four vignettes to the thirty engravings of the previous edition (1869), bringing the total to 34 vignettes by P. Sellier present here; a fourth edition would follow in 1881. Curious. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate