LOT of 4 volumes: 1. BAUDRY DE SAUNIER, L. Eléments de Locomotion Aérienne. A study of all the devices of aerial locomotion: free balloons, dirigible balloons, aeroplanes. Complete description of the main devices, and detailed explanation of their operation. Paris: Baudry de Saunier, 1909. In-8; publisher's percaline illustrated with a Rep airplane on the second board, headbands worn, otherwise a very good copy illustrated with 99 photographs and sketches. 2. BERGET, Alphonse. La Route de l'air. Paris: Hachette, ca 1910. In-4, illustrated publisher's cloth, gilt edges, work illustrated with 40 photographic plates and figures in the text. Gilding partially faded, a few stains on the bottom cover. 3. MARCHIS, M.L. Leçons sur la navigation aérienne (Cours de la Faculté des Sciences de Bordeaux, années 1903-1904): ballons sphériques, aérostation militaire, aérostation scientifique, aéronautique maritime, ballons dirigeables. Paris: Dunod, 1904. Large and strong square in-8, period binding in worn half-percaline. 4. MIGNET, Henri. The Sport of the Air. Why and how I built the Pou-du-ciel. The kinetic gliding of birds. Paris; Taffin-Lefort, 1934. Third edition, in-8, illustrations and sketches by the author. Bound in worn half-casket paper, color covers preserved.
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LOT of 4 volumes: 1. BAUDRY DE SAUNIER, L. Eléments de Locomotion Aérienne. A study of all the devices of aerial locomotion: free balloons, dirigible balloons, aeroplanes. Complete description of the main devices, and detailed explanation of their operation. Paris: Baudry de Saunier, 1909. In-8; publisher's percaline illustrated with a Rep airplane on the second board, headbands worn, otherwise a very good copy illustrated with 99 photographs and sketches. 2. BERGET, Alphonse. La Route de l'air. Paris: Hachette, ca 1910. In-4, illustrated publisher's cloth, gilt edges, work illustrated with 40 photographic plates and figures in the text. Gilding partially faded, a few stains on the bottom cover. 3. MARCHIS, M.L. Leçons sur la navigation aérienne (Cours de la Faculté des Sciences de Bordeaux, années 1903-1904): ballons sphériques, aérostation militaire, aérostation scientifique, aéronautique maritime, ballons dirigeables. Paris: Dunod, 1904. Large and strong square in-8, period binding in worn half-percaline. 4. MIGNET, Henri. The Sport of the Air. Why and how I built the Pou-du-ciel. The kinetic gliding of birds. Paris; Taffin-Lefort, 1934. Third edition, in-8, illustrations and sketches by the author. Bound in worn half-casket paper, color covers preserved.