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ENNIS, William Duane. ~ Flying Machines Today. New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 'Sold by Crosby Lockwood and Son' [London] stamped to title page 1911.

First edition, British issue, with Crosby Lockwood and Sons stamp, adverts and variant binding. An important pre-Great War account, extensively illustrated and with a final… (more)

First edition, British issue, with Crosby Lockwood and Sons stamp, adverts and variant binding. An important pre-Great War account, extensively illustrated and with a final chapter on aerial warfare and its potential
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MANGIN, Arthur. ~ La Navigation aérienne. Tours: Mame et Cie., 1855.

First edition, rare, in its original gilt and glazed paper pictorial binding. Part of the Bibliothèque des Écoles Chrétiennes series, this copy from the celebrated… (more)

First edition, rare, in its original gilt and glazed paper pictorial binding. Part of the Bibliothèque des Écoles Chrétiennes series, this copy from the celebrated collection of Colonel Milon (dispersed 1991). Cf. Tissandier 28 (second edition only). WorldCat lists a single copy of any edition, the 1894 ‘nouvelle édition’ (Harvard).
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(NADAR). DUCHESNE. ~ Exposé de divers systèmes de navigation aérienne et réfutation de l'hélicoptère Nadar, Ponton d'Amécourt et de La Landelle, par Duchesne jeune. Paris: [Goupy et Cie for], É. Dentu, 1864.

First edition. A refutation of the possibility of heavier-than-air flight as proposed by Nadar and his colleagues. (more)

First edition. A refutation of the possibility of heavier-than-air flight as proposed by Nadar and his colleagues.
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L'Art Aérostatique ~ Histoire des Ballons aérostats, globes aérostatiques, montgolfières, leur théorie, les diverses méthodes usitées pour leur construction; la manière de les enfler, soit en raréfiant, au moyne du feu, l’air atmosphérique qu’ils contiennent, soit en les remplissant de gaz hydrogéne; leur direction, l’invention du parachute... Paris: [Pommeret et Moreau] Chez les marchands de nouveautés, 1852.

First edition, very rare, an early survey of the technology of flight before the advances of Godard, Nadar et al. Tissandier, p. 11. No copy… (more)

First edition, very rare, an early survey of the technology of flight before the advances of Godard, Nadar et al. Tissandier, p. 11. No copy located in OCLC.
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(BALLOONING). (GYPSON, Richard). ~ Grand Balloon Ascent! From the Yard of the Bedford Gas Company, Mr. Gypson will make his Sixteenth Ascent in his Magnificent Nocturnal Balloon, On Friday Afternoon Next, May the 1st, 1840... Bedford: Hill & Son, [ 1840].

Two provincial handbills, from Bedford and Sleaford, advertising ascents by pioneering balloonist Richard Gypson, who toured Britain and the Europe with his balloon. (more)

Two provincial handbills, from Bedford and Sleaford, advertising ascents by pioneering balloonist Richard Gypson, who toured Britain and the Europe with his balloon.
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