La navigation aérienne / par M. Arthur Mangin
A French illustrated children's book on aerial navigation by Arthur Mangin, published in Tours by Mame in 1862, with a decorative pink and gilt binding framing a hand-coloured vignette. The pictures show a cottage scene with a balloon drifting overhead, rendered in soft colour with a tooled gilt cover that a designer could draw on for period ornament and framed-panel layouts.
