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Histoire de L'Aéronautique par les Monuments, Peints, Sculptés, Dessinés et Gravés des...

A Magnificently Produced Iconography of Aeronautical History

Histoire de L'Aéronautique par les Monuments, Peints, Sculptés, Dessinés et Gravés des Origines à 1830.

Paris: André Marty, 1909. First Edition, one of 325 copies. A Magnificently Produced Iconography of Aeronautical History. Lavish iconography of the early history of flight––the plates are magnificent facsimiles, either tipped-in, on different papers or on satin, some hand-colored, some on stubs. A wonderful compilation from five different sources, including..... Read More about Histoire de L'Aéronautique par les Monuments, Peints, Sculptés, Dessinés et Gravés des...

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Typed Letter, signed (“J.H. Doolittle”), to U.S. Congressman James M. Mead, explaining his...

Honoring George Washington and the U.S. Postal Service

Typed Letter, signed (“J.H. Doolittle”), to U.S. Congressman James M. Mead, explaining his flight in honor of the Bicentennial of...

Dropped from plane “En Route”; envelope postmarked “Boston, Mass.”: July 25, 1932. Honoring George Washington and the U.S. Postal Service. Doolittle, the aviator who won the Congressional Medal of Honor for leading the bombing raids over Tokyo in World War II, writes: “I am making a flight over as many..... Read More about Typed Letter, signed (“J.H. Doolittle”), to U.S. Congressman James M. Mead, explaining his...

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Do You want to Fly? Forman, Harrison

Do You want to Fly?

Shanghai, China: The Comacrib Press, 1931. First edition. A lovely copy of this curious Shanghai imprint. Born in Milwaukee, Forman studied at the Layton School of Art and then the University of Wisconsin from where he graduated with a degree in Oriental Philosophy. He drew on both of these in..... Read More about Do You want to Fly?

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Rockets. Robert Goddard

Rockets.

New York: American Rocket Society American Rocket Society, [1946]. First Edition. Reprints of two articles, original published by the Smithsonian Institution. Includes: A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes. (first published 1919); Liquid-Propellant Rocket Development (first published 1936). Read More about Rockets

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Autograph Letter signed ("Maurice Baring") to T.E. LAWRENCE. T. E. LAWRENCE, Maurice Baring

A Plea to TE Lawrence re the Memory of Albert Ball

Autograph Letter signed ("Maurice Baring") to T.E. LAWRENCE.

Half-Way House / Steyning Road, Rottingdean: 4 October 1933. A Plea to TE Lawrence re the Memory of Albert Ball. Baring discusses the recent appearance of and furor over a new book on the WW I flying ace Albert Ball, [CAPTAIN ALBERT BALL VC DS, by RH Kiernan], which Baring..... Read More about Autograph Letter signed ("Maurice Baring") to T.E. LAWRENCE

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Another Catch: More Fugitive Notes on Sport and Other Things. Arthur St. John Newberry

Another Catch: More Fugitive Notes on Sport and Other Things.

Cleveland, Ohio: Printed for the Writer by The Bryan Printing Company, n.d. [1914]. First edition, no. 31 of 75 copies presented to Elizabeth Childs Crego (crossed out) Stinson. "The book was published posthumously by his widow [and sent to members of the St. Bernard Fish and Game Club of Cleveland]..... Read More about Another Catch: More Fugitive Notes on Sport and Other Things

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