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5 - [AERONAUTICS – BIBLIOGRAPHY] DARMON, J.
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Estimate €60 - €80
Description
[AERONAUTICS – BIBLIOGRAPHY] DARMON, J.E. Dictionary of prints and illustrated books on balloons and flying machines from the early days up to around 1880. Montpellier, Barral, 1929. Quarto, paperback, illustrated cover with a raised border. 129 pp., cover and 3 full-page colour illustrations by E. Blanche, black-and-white illustrations in the text and as inserts. Upper cap indented with a small tear, paper browned at the margins. First edition of this bibliography devoted to the earliest printed depictions of aeronautics. One of 1,000 numbered copies on thick vellum (no. 474). A good copy.
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