Lot 363
Science Museum/HMSO Aviation titles
by Charles H. Gibbs-Smith. A small selection of large 8vo hardback volumes, all very good copies in their dust jackets, comprising: The Invention of the Aeroplane 1799-1909; Sir George Cayley's Aeronautics 1796-1855; The Rebirth of European Aviation; A Directory and Nomenclature of the First Aeroplanes 1809 to 1909; Clement Ader: his Flight Claims and his Place in History; and four Science Museum Booklets by the same author. The lot also includes a good copy of an earlier Science Museum large 8vo hardback (no dust jacket)from 1931: Henson and Stringfellow - Their Work in Aeronautics - The History of a Stage in the Development of Mechanical Flight 1840-1868. (10)
