Les Aérostiers militaires du château de Meudon (1794-1884)
A short French history of the military balloon corps based at the château de Meudon from 1794 to 1884, written by Désiré Lacroix, a Ministry of War editor, and published in Paris by Auguste Ghio in 1885 for readers interested in army aeronautics. The plates are wood engravings of tethered observation balloons handled by crews of soldiers in landscape settings, with hatched skies, rope lines and basket rigging available as period aeronautical motifs; the wrapper adds a monogram device and a plain typographic title page.
