Some Japanese balloon prints from the collection of Bella C. Landauer.
Publisher: Published by the author; reproduced and printed in U.S.A. by Polygraphic Company of America, Inc.
Published: 1935
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Aeronautics -- Japan.; Aeronautics -- Japan -- Pictorial works.; Ballooning -- Japan.; Ballooning -- Japan -- Pictorial works.; Airships -- Japan -- Pictorial works.; Color prints, Japanese -- Western influences.
Genres: Pictorial works.
Notes: Essay with black-and-white reproductions.
Printer's statement and edition statement from colophon.
"Sixty copies printed."
One of the folded plates is folded vertically; four are triptychs.
"A ticket of admission to the Japanese Embassy, issued for the double balloon ascension made on June 14th, 1860 by [T.S.C.] Lowe and Wm. Paullin" mounted on recto of frontispiece.
LC Copy 1 is no. 9, in original paper covers. Has the author's bookplate, New York City skyline with airplane.