A la Conquête de l'air. L'aviation et le vol des oiseaux ...

£1,250 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A rare copy of this early work on aviation, published just a few years after the Wright Brothers epoc-making flight in North Carolina. Amply illustrated, Camuset devoted most of the work to a discussion of the flight of birds before turning his conclusions on the topic to aviation. The front cover has a picture of Le Santos-Dumont number 14. Known as Oiseau de proie [“bird of prey”] it made the first publicly witnessed and filmed flight. It was also the first successful non-Wright Brothers aircraft. OCLC locates copies at Harvard and Penn State only.

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