Aérostation militaire : cahier d'instruction pratique / par Mr. le Capitaine Strafforello, commandant, la Compagnie d'aérostiers du 1er Régiment du génie
At head of title: 1er Régiment du génie, École régimentaire de Versailles, decembre 18[84?].
Includes some hand-drawn illustrations.
Photoreproduced facsimile version available in the rare book collection of the National Air and Space Museum Library (Smithsonian Libraries) in Washington, D.C., call number UG645 .F8S89 NASMRB (barcode 39088002089126). DSI
SCDIRB copy 39088020204590 has bookplate: The Library of Congress ... the Daniel Guggenheim Fund; accession number "G.F. 397283 '30" is handwritten on a front free endpaper.
SCDIRB copy has an old marbled paperboard binding with gilt-tooled beige cloth spine and black leather spine label.
Contents:
Partie 1. Nomenclature. Description. Usage. Entretien et reparation du matériel [in 5 chapters] -- Partie 2. Preparatifs de gonflement. Pangement aprés de gonflement [in 3 chapters] -- Partie 3. Gonflement. Degonflement et transvasement [in 3 chapters] -- Partie 4. Manoeuvres du ballon [in 7 chapters] -- Renseigments généraux et théoriques
Summary:
Text hand-written in ink on graph paper, possibly transcribed from notes of a military student taken during a course of study at the École régimentaire de Versailles.