Lexploration Par Fusees De La Tres Haute Atmosphere Et La Possibilite Des Voyages

by Robert Esnault Pelterie

$1,500 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

Paris: Au Siege de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1928. Large octavo, pp. i-v vi-vii viii 1 2-96, tables in the text, original reddish-brown wrappers printed in black, edges untrimmed. First edition. Printed as a supplement to the March 1928 issue of L'ASTRONOMIE. Expounds original hypotheses of space flight that the author began to formulate in 1908 independently of the rocketry and astronautical ideas of pioneers

• Binding: Wrappers

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