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Lot 109

AVIATION—WRIGHT BROTHERS.
Flugmaschine Wright G.M.B.H. Berlin: Gustav Braunbeck & Gutenberg-Druckerei Aktiengesellschaft, [1909].

4 June 2014, 13:00 EDT
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AVIATION—WRIGHT BROTHERS.

Flugmaschine Wright G.M.B.H. Berlin: Gustav Braunbeck & Gutenberg-Druckerei Aktiengesellschaft, [1909].
8vo. 12 pp. Illustrated. Original gray wrappers printed in silver. Wrappers with fore-edge irregularly trimmed, light sunning and edgewear, a very good copy.
Provenance: Dutch chemical engineer and inventor F.W. Bakema (ownership stamp on front wrapper); Jeremy Norman.

FIRST EDITION of the first sales brochure advertising a plane designed by the Wright Brothers. The brochure contains an extensive description of the Wright airplane and its performance, as well as an account of the formation of Flugmaschine Wright G.M.b.H., which was established in June 1909 and acquired the Wright German patents and the exclusive right to manufacture Wright airplanes in Germany, as well as sales rights for Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Luxemburg and Turkey. The American Wright Company was not incorporated until November 1909 and although the Compagnie Generale de Navigation Aerienne had purchased the French rights to manufacture and sell Wright aircraft in March 1908, it appears that they issued no sales brochure before that of Flugmaschine Wright. A rare piece, with only 4 copies cited in OCLC.

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