Lot 357
Early French Aeronautical Histories.
Comprising two folio-size hardback volumes: Le Triomphe de la Navigation Aerienne: Aeroplanes - Dirigeables - Spheriques, by Comte Henry De La Vaulx, Paris, 1911, red cloth with gilt decoration and lettering, , spine dull, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, c.400 well illustrated pages; and La Route de l'Air: Aeronautique Aviation, Histoire - Theorie - Pratique, by Alphonse Berget, Paris, 1910, red cloth with gilt decoration and lettering, but covers dull and marked, though contents good, all edges gilt, c.250 pages, '80 diagrammes explicatifs, 118 gravures tirees hors texte'. Plus another quarto-size hardback, La Navigation Aerienne: Histoire documentaire et anecdotique, by J. Lecornu, 3rd ed, Paris, 1910, dark green cloth with black and gilt decoration and lettering, decorative endpapers, all edges gilt, c.500 well-illustrated pages. (3)
