Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

Lot 1

TWO EARLY OCTAVE CHANUTE PUBLICATIONS.
1.
Aerial Navigation. New York: Railroad and Engineering Journal, 1891.

25 March 2013, 13:00 EDT
New York

Sold for US$1,750 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Space History specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

TWO EARLY OCTAVE CHANUTE PUBLICATIONS.

1. Aerial Navigation. New York: Railroad and Engineering Journal, 1891. 36 pp. 7½ x 4½ inches. Several steel-engraved illustrations. Original orange printed wrappers. Upper wrapper and title inkstamped with date that the lecture was delivered, May 2, 1890. Lightly rubbed.
2. Progress in Flying Machines. New York: the American Engineer and Railroad Journal, [1894]. iv, [2], 308 pp. 9 x 6 inches. Original blue-gray cloth, gilt device on upper cover of Lilienthal in flight. Lightly rubbed.

FIRST EDITIONS. Applying his engineering background, Chanute collected all the data that he could find from flight pioneers around the world. He published this as a series of articles in The Railroad and Engineering Journal from 1891 to 1893, and collected them together in the present volume. This is the most systematic global survey of fixed-wing heavier-than-air aviation research published up to that time.

Additional information

Bid now on these items

ADVERTISING POSTERfor 'The Suffragette' newspaper, [c.1913-1914]

ARCHITECTURE - STUART (JAMES) AND NICHOLAS REVETT The Antiquities of Athens, 4 vol. bound in 2, 1825-1830

ILLUMINATED ADDRESS – CLARA CODD Illuminated printed address signed by Emmeline Pankhurst, [1909]

ARMENIAN - HISTORY, THEOLOGY AND PRINTING. Group of books/a map in Armenian, c.1825-1901 (12)

MUSIC & RECORDINGS – ETHEL SMYTH Collection of printed music, song sheets and records, [c.1911-1912]

BANK NOTES - MANUFACTURING BRADBURY (HENRY) On the Security and Manufacture of Bank Notes, FIRST EDITION, Bradbury and Evans, 1856