Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight. Part I. 1887 to 1890. Part II. 1897 to 1903

by Samuel Pierpont Langley, Charles M. Manly

$300 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Washington DC: Smithsonian, 1911. First Edition. First edition. Folio 32.5cm . Rebound in modern half blue buckam, blue cloth over boards, gilt titles to front and spine, original paper front cover bound in at rear; modern endpapers; xii ,320pp; 104 plates, including both diagrams and half-tone photographs. Ex-library Yale University Museum, with stamps to t.p., front wrapper, and text. A

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