Live auction - Lot 683
[Aeronautics]
Contribution à la bibliographie de la locomotion aérienne.
Antwerp, (Widow De Backer), 1894
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
4to: front.-43-[1] pp. (marg. foxing on the front.).
Sewn, green paper wrappers (def.).
Very rare and interesting list of bibliographies, classified by "Écrits primordiaux", countries, periodicals and "Accessoires". Also with their prices. Extracted from the "Congrès de la science de l'atmosphère". Printed to 100 copies. Illustrated with a sepia copper-engr. frontispiece "Dédale et Icare" after Jules Romain or Giulio Romano.
Ref. BnF.
Joined: Livre d'or de la conquête de l'air. Brussels, Dechenne, 1909. 4to. Sewn (loosening), gilt title on front wrapper. Publ. box. Illustrated with 10 plates in colour (2 on double-page) and many ill. b/w in-text. Issued to 500 numb. copies with the stamp of "Bureau spécial du Cercle de la Librairie" (n. 161). (2 vol.)