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"ROCKETRY - M. de MONTGÉRY (JACQUES-PHILIPPE MÉRIGON de MONTGÉRY).
Traité des Fusées de Guerre, nommées autrefois Rochettes et maintenant Fusées a la Congrève.
Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1826. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamps on title-page. Offprint/ Extrait from ""Annales Maritimes. - Décembre 1825"". (2),177 pp., 6 folded engraved plates.
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Scarce offprint-edition (printed the same year in Annales as the first book-edition) of Montgéry's notable work on the mechanics, chemistry and useability of rockets in warfare.""Montgéry’s investigations of pyrotechnics led him to do research into the war rockets of William Congreve and to the production of what may be the first documented history of rocketry, Traité des fusées de guerre (1825). Known throughout Europe, it became the standard work on the subject, appeared in serial form in several official journals, and was republished in 1841. Montgéry’s coverage was exhaustive and analytical, particularly in his treatment of rocket physics.""(DSB).
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3 book(s) with the same title
Traité des Fusées de Guerre, nommées autrefois Rochettes et maintenant Fusées a la Congrève.
Paris, Bachelier, 1825. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on spine. Stamps on title-page. (4),295,(1) pp., 6 folded engraved plates with many figures. A few faint scattered brownspots.
Scarce first edition of Montgéry's notable work on the mechanics, chemistry and useability of rockets in warfare.""Montgéry’s investigations of pyrotechnics led him to do research into the war rockets of William Congreve and to the production of what may be the first documented history of rocketry, Traité des fusées de guerre (1825). Known throughout Europe, it became the standard work on the subject, appeared in serial form in several official journals, and was republished in 1841. Montgéry’s coverage was exhaustive and analytical, particularly in his treatment of rocket physics.""(DSB).
Traité des fusées de guerre nommées autrefois rochettes et maintenant Fusées à la Congrève.
Paris, Bachelier, libraire, 1825, in-8vo, 2 f. (faux-titre et titre) + 295 p. + 6 gravures dépl., cartonnage d'époque, pièce de titre et de l'année en maroquin rouge au dos.
Très rare première ‘histoire des roquettes’ fusées à la Congrève, la première histoire des roquettes bien documentée.La deuxième édition parut en 1826. la 3ème en 1841.First edition in contemporary marbled boards, fine untrimmed condition. ‘Known throughout Europe, it became the standard work on the subject. Montgery’s coverage was exhaustive and analytical, particularly in his treatment of rocket physics’ (Glyn Daniel in Dict. of Scient. biogr.). Dict. Sc. Biogr. Vol. 9, p.490. Image disp.
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Traité des fusées de guerre, nommées autrefois rochettes et maintenant fusées à la congrève.
Paris : imprimerie royale, 1826 In-8, (4)-177 pages et 6 planches dépliantes. Demi-basane marbrée de l'époque, dos lisse orné de doubles filets dorés, pièce de titre.
Rousseurs. Seconde édition. Quérard V, 256 (pour l'édition originale de 1825).
