AERIAL NAVIGATION : A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF DIRIGIBILE BALLOONS, AEROSTATS, AEROPLANES AND AEROMOTORS; jWith about One Hundred Illustrations

Octavo. Brown cloth over boards (7 3/4 in. x 5 1/2 in.), with bright gilt lettering to front board. Beveled edges. Fabulous inset engraving, in black, ruled in blind (3 3/4 i. x 2 1/4 in.) Gilt lettering to spine, with publisher's motto ("Capio Lumen" ("Capture The Light") with hand grasping lighted torch, in gilt to bottom of spine. . With "About One Hundred illustrations." Beautiful copy of this scarce early book on air-ship flight withonly very slight rubbing to corners and spine caps. Some of the illustrations include Aerostats by Serkis-Bev, Gower, Bate, Dale, Fryer, Glendinning, Tapscott and Scott; Wing Motions by Walker, Smythie, Cornelius, Capone, Galliene, Middleton, Marshall; Propellers by Rennie, Erichsen, Henderson, Vogelsand, Boisset/Mercier, Williams, Alexander, Feraud, Schmidt, Child, Storz, Vogelsang, Adams, Pennington, Heathorn, Razeau; and Air-Ships by De Bausset, Worm, Boisset, Roze, Chillingworth, Middleton, Pennington, Lochner, Hite, Blumelhuber, Nahl, Langley, Von Zeppelin, Aeraonic, and Santos Dumont.…