8vo (250 x 163 mm). Double-page frontispiece, one folding map, 23 engraved plates (one folding). (Minor foxing.) Publisher's red cloth (rebacked in red calf). FIRST EDITION, in which Tissadier recounts his 24 balloon ascents in a 10-year period. His first trip was conducted at Calais in 1868 with Claude-Jules Dufour; in September of 1870, he escaped the besieged Paris by balloon during the Franco-Prussian War. His work is appended with Henri Giffard's method of preparing hydrogen for use in balloons. Brockett 11924.