[LEGRAND, Marc-Antoine, attributed to]. Les Avantures du voyageur aérien. Histoire Espagnolle. With the Baskets, where [sic] the old Pretieuse. Comédie. Paris: André Cailleau, 1724. With Approval & Privilege [for both works]. 2 works in 1 volume in-12; [viii], 244p., [8p. Approval, Privilege, Table, Catalogue]; incomplete with folio 111/112.  FOLLOWED by: Les Paniers ou la Vieille Pretieuse.  Comédie. Paris: Chez André Cailleau, 1724. 48p.Contemporary binding in speckled calf, triple fillet on the boards, spine ribbed and decorated, marbled endpapers, red edges; beginning of a split at the upper jaw, corners dull. Barbier I,344. Rare first edition of this curious novel, in which the traveler moves through the air by a phenomenon of cold air expansion.
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[LEGRAND, Marc-Antoine, attributed to]. Les Avantures du voyageur aérien. Histoire Espagnolle. With the Baskets, where [sic] the old Pretieuse. Comédie. Paris: André Cailleau, 1724. With Approval & Privilege [for both works]. 2 works in 1 volume in-12; [viii], 244p., [8p. Approval, Privilege, Table, Catalogue]; incomplete with folio 111/112. FOLLOWED by: Les Paniers ou la Vieille Pretieuse. Comédie. Paris: Chez André Cailleau, 1724. 48p.Contemporary binding in speckled calf, triple fillet on the boards, spine ribbed and decorated, marbled endpapers, red edges; beginning of a split at the upper jaw, corners dull. Barbier I,344. Rare first edition of this curious novel, in which the traveler moves through the air by a phenomenon of cold air expansion.

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[LEGRAND, Marc-Antoine, attributed to]. Les Avantures du voyageur aérien. Histoire Espagnolle. With the Baskets, where [sic] the old Pretieuse. Comédie. Paris: André Cailleau, 1724. With Approval & Privilege [for both works]. 2 works in 1 volume in-12; [viii], 244p., [8p. Approval, Privilege, Table, Catalogue]; incomplete with folio 111/112. FOLLOWED by: Les Paniers ou la Vieille Pretieuse. Comédie. Paris: Chez André Cailleau, 1724. 48p.Contemporary binding in speckled calf, triple fillet on the boards, spine ribbed and decorated, marbled endpapers, red edges; beginning of a split at the upper jaw, corners dull. Barbier I,344. Rare first edition of this curious novel, in which the traveler moves through the air by a phenomenon of cold air expansion.
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