Histoire des Moyens de Communication

suivie d'un coup d'oeil pittoresque et archeologique sur les chateaux anciens et modernes, par Edmond Audouit

Paris: Alphonse Desesserts, Editeur, (undated--1851?). Nice old leather volume on transportation and communication...including a large section on hot air balloons, trains, etc. animals used in communication, etc. With original lithographs. With an old ink stamp in three places. Great marbled endpapers and marbled boards. Some foxing, and foxing to tissue sheets protecting lithographs. Evidence of a skillful rebacking to leather spine.