![ADVERTISING POSTERfor 'The Suffragette' newspaper, [c.1913-1914]](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%252Flive%252F2025-06%252F25%252F25680656-116-1.jpg%26width%3D650&w=2400&q=75)
![ILLUMINATED ADDRESS – CLARA CODD Illuminated printed address signed by Emmeline Pankhurst, [1909]](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%252Flive%252F2025-06%252F25%252F25680656-32-1.jpg%26width%3D650&w=2400&q=75)
![MUSIC & RECORDINGS – ETHEL SMYTH Collection of printed music, song sheets and records, [c.1911-1912]](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%252Flive%252F2025-10%252F09%252F25680656-99-1.jpg%26width%3D650&w=2400&q=75)
![SUFFRAGETTE INSIGNIA - GROUP CAPTAIN Group Captain's ribbon, [1908]](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%252Flive%252F2025-07%252F16%252F25680656-10-1.jpg%26width%3D650&w=2400&q=75)
This auction has ended. View lot details
You may also be interested in
Lot 106
AVIATION: WRIGHT BROTHERS. WRIGHT, WILBUR. 1867-1912. "Some Aeronautical Experiments." Offprint from: Journal of Western Society of Engineers, Chicago, December 1901.
4 June 2014, 13:00 EDT
New YorkUS$30,000 - US$50,000
Looking for a similar item?
Our Books & Manuscripts specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.
Find your local specialistAsk about this lot
Client Services (San Francisco)
Client Services (New York)
Client Services (Los Angeles)
AVIATION: WRIGHT BROTHERS.
WRIGHT, WILBUR. 1867-1912. "Some Aeronautical Experiments." Offprint from: Journal of Western Society of Engineers, Chicago, December 1901.
8vo. 22, [1] pp. With 2 line block and 10 quarter page half-tone illustrations. Original tan printed wrappers, clamshell. Spine reinforced and stitched, text leaves reinforced at gutter, some very light spots of discoloration to wrappers, corners lightly worn, one very small edge-tear and chip to front wrapper, still an attractive copy of a fragile work.
FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE, OF THE WRIGHT BROTHERS' FIRST PUBLISHED REPORTS ON THE FIRST TRIAL FLIGHTS WITH MOTORLESS GLIDING PLANES AT KITTY HAWK, "the work that made their experiments famous"(Norman). In this paper, Wilbur Wright describes the progress of trials conducted on the beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, during the summer of 1901, during which they achieved glides of up to 389 feet. "Their work was painstaking, thoroughly scientific, with a careful tabulation of data and critical examination of all conclusions. The glides indicated that a vertical steering rudder was essential ... and that calculations based on existing data were in error" (DSB).
Wilbur and Orville Wright became interested in the practical possibility of human flight following the research of German aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal (d. 1896). After three years of intensive research, they built their first machine, a biplane kite-glider with a fine-foot wingspan, modeled on the glider of the French-born aviation pioneer Octave Chanute, but in a crucial advance, incorporating wing-warps, which provided a heretofore non-existent degree of lateral control. A year later they built their first full-size glider, with a 17-foot wingspan, and shortly thereafter, in the summer of 1900, a larger glider with a 22-foot wingspan. The Wrights reported their results to the Society of Engineers at the urging of Chanute, its president, whose own experimental trials were an important stepping-stone to the Wright Brothers' success. Chanute, in a visionary move, had three hundred offprints of the paper printed (the printing of separately issued offprints was relatively unusual for engineering journals) sending half to colleagues, and the other half to the Wright Brothers. Despite this print run, very few copies have survived in any condition, with OCLC locating only 9 copies.
Dibner Heralds of Science 185; Dictionary of Scientific Biography XIV 520-1; Heirs of Prometheus (Smithsonian Institution 1978), p 15; Norman 2266. OCLC locates only 9 copies.
8vo. 22, [1] pp. With 2 line block and 10 quarter page half-tone illustrations. Original tan printed wrappers, clamshell. Spine reinforced and stitched, text leaves reinforced at gutter, some very light spots of discoloration to wrappers, corners lightly worn, one very small edge-tear and chip to front wrapper, still an attractive copy of a fragile work.
FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE, OF THE WRIGHT BROTHERS' FIRST PUBLISHED REPORTS ON THE FIRST TRIAL FLIGHTS WITH MOTORLESS GLIDING PLANES AT KITTY HAWK, "the work that made their experiments famous"(Norman). In this paper, Wilbur Wright describes the progress of trials conducted on the beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, during the summer of 1901, during which they achieved glides of up to 389 feet. "Their work was painstaking, thoroughly scientific, with a careful tabulation of data and critical examination of all conclusions. The glides indicated that a vertical steering rudder was essential ... and that calculations based on existing data were in error" (DSB).
Wilbur and Orville Wright became interested in the practical possibility of human flight following the research of German aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal (d. 1896). After three years of intensive research, they built their first machine, a biplane kite-glider with a fine-foot wingspan, modeled on the glider of the French-born aviation pioneer Octave Chanute, but in a crucial advance, incorporating wing-warps, which provided a heretofore non-existent degree of lateral control. A year later they built their first full-size glider, with a 17-foot wingspan, and shortly thereafter, in the summer of 1900, a larger glider with a 22-foot wingspan. The Wrights reported their results to the Society of Engineers at the urging of Chanute, its president, whose own experimental trials were an important stepping-stone to the Wright Brothers' success. Chanute, in a visionary move, had three hundred offprints of the paper printed (the printing of separately issued offprints was relatively unusual for engineering journals) sending half to colleagues, and the other half to the Wright Brothers. Despite this print run, very few copies have survived in any condition, with OCLC locating only 9 copies.
Dibner Heralds of Science 185; Dictionary of Scientific Biography XIV 520-1; Heirs of Prometheus (Smithsonian Institution 1978), p 15; Norman 2266. OCLC locates only 9 copies.