".: New York, The American Engineer and Railroad Journal, 1894, format in-8°, 308 pp.Index. Bound in publisher's blue cloth, with gilt decoration on front cover. (no dust jacket). Tiny hole repaired in the lower left corner of the frontcover but a very fine copy of the first original edition, without library markings nor foxing or stains.. Interesting early study on aviation which received many re-editions; but his is the very first !.."
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New York, The American Engineer and Railroad Journal, 1894. In-8, IV, (2), 308 pages, 85-5 figures in-t., pleine percaline éditeur.
Appendix: The flight of the albatros, by Thomas MOY. The flying man. The carrying capacity of arched surface in sailing flight by Otto LILIENTAL.
Long Beach CA, Lorentz & Herweg, 1976. Orig. boards. One corner bumped. Portrait. VI,308 pp. Richly textillustrated.