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Description
[AVIATION]
A collection of books and documents on aviation:
- CASTEX (Louis):
The man who gave the world wings – Clément Ader.
With 14 engravings.
Paris. Librairie Plon, 1947.
In-8°. Publisher’s hardback. 120 pages. Photographic illustrations in the text.
- Issue XLI of the magazine ‘Je sais tout’, 15 June 1908, devoted to the aviator Henri Farman.
Large 8° format. Paperback. 30 pages, numbered 697 to 726. Numerous photographs in the text.
- Set of 7 photographs of “Air France” aircraft, circa 1937... Exterior views of aeroplanes, interior of the aeroplane, aeroplane in flight...
Some photographs bear a stamp by the photographer Boisgontier on the reverse, with the inscription: “This print may not be reproduced without bearing the mandatory statement: ‘Photo G. Boisgontier’”.
- 2 postcards: Lindbergh’s aeroplane, the “Spirit of St Louis”. A portrait of the aviator in a medallion. An aeroplane from a flying school.
- Photograph of a Constellation aeroplane, known as the “Ciel de Provence”, on an airport runway, circa 1950.
See original version (French)
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ID: 89135229
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