COLLECTION PIERRE-LOUIS CLEMENT : AEROSTATION - BALLOONS
TUESDAY 17 MAY AT 2PM
PUBLIC AUCTION AT DROUOT - ROOM 11
COLLECTION PIERRE-LOUIS CLEMENT
AEROSTATION - BALLOONS AND HOT AIR BALLOONS
Public exhibitions : Monday May 16th from 11am to 6pm and the morning of the sale from 11am to 12pm
Selling expenses : 29.88% TTC (+ 1.8% TTC for the Live)
Lots can bepicked up free of charge in the auction room until 7 pm on the evening of the sale and the next day between 8 am and 10 am.
Theitems are to be collected from the Hôtel Drouot warehouse, the costs of which are to be borne by the buyers.
Upon request and subject to availability, small items may be transported to the auction house.
EXPERTS
For books : Jean-Pierre FOUQUES
1 route de Louerre, Gennes - 49350 Gennes-Val-de-Loire
Phone : 02 41 59 74 35
libcarre@club-internet.fr
For prints : Sylvie COLLIGNON
45, rue Sainte Anne - 75001 Paris
Phone : 06 11 11 79 00
collignonsylvie@cegetel.net
For drawings : Cabinet De BAYSER
69, rue Sainte Anne - 75001 Paris
Phone : 01 47 03 49 87
info@debayser.com
For paintings : Cabinet CHANOIT
12, rue Drouot - 75009 Paris
Phone : 01 47 70 22 33
expertise@chanoit.com
For works of art : MB ART EXPERTISES - Morgan BLAISE
14, avenue de l'Opéra - 75001 Paris
Phone : 06 78 62 87 55
AEROSTATION - PIERRE-LOUIS CLEMENT LIBRARY
This library of an aerostation enthusiast, aeronaut himself, engineer by profession, author of various works including an interesting history of hot-air balloons, is remarkable in more than one way. It is not really that of a bibliophile, because the content takes precedence over the form and the state of the works, which were for the most part carefully read and indexed, was not the main consideration of its owner. On the one hand, it gathers most of the classical texts of the 18th century on the invention of hot-air balloons and the first flights, and then focuses on the tests that followed outside of France, particularly in Italy and England. On the other hand, it extends to the scientific studies that preceded or followed the first ascents: studies and discoveries on gases and air expansion, electrical and meteorological phenomena, balloon envelope manufacturing techniques, heating systems and steering tests, and later aerial photography.
The collection is also interested in newspapers and reports of the time, and offers a very remarkable set of reports published in French and foreign newspapers of the 18th century. Finally, the novels, utopias or projects related to air transport are not forgotten. More generally, this library appears to be the fruit of a long and patient work of assembly, the quasi-totality of the works presented, whether they are of physics, chemistry, natural history or literature, having a more or less direct relationship with aerostation or aeronautics, thus forming a vast historical fresco of the "heavier than air.