Published by Two volumes, 4to, x,221 pages, 13 leaves of folding colour plates, llustrations, 30 cm, Paris: Aristide Quillet, 1910., 1910
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 241.46
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Title-pages in black and red. Many photographic and line illustrations in Volume I, mostly of early flying machines. Volume II consisting 13 colour plates with folding overlays of very considerable complexity, facing text. Rose cloth, titled in black and white, inlaid with pictorial designs of airships, motor cars, trains, spines decorated with a geometric design in black, floral endpapers. Occasional slight browning to the facing text (not the plates) of Volume II. A very good copy of an outstanding piece of design. I. Texte: La locomotive "compound" a` marchandises. La turbine a` vapeur. Les gazoge`nes. Le moteur a` gas. La motocylette. L'automobile. Les ballons dirigeables ou ae ronats. L'aviation. La dynamo et le moteur e lectriques. La magne to. Les accumulateurs e lectriques. La te le graphie sans fil.