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Lot 89

AVIATION HISTORY
Large collection spanning the history of aviation including signed items, photographs, books and ephemera.

3 – 4 November 2021, 13:00 PDT
Los Angeles

Sold for US$2,040 inc. premium

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AVIATION HISTORY

Large collection spanning the history of aviation including signed items, photographs, books and ephemera. Includes:
1. CHANUTE, OCTAVE. Autograph Letter Signed ("O. Chanute"), Chicago, October 12, 1906, 1 p.
2. CURTISS, GLENN H. Autograph closing Signed ("G.H. Curtiss"), dated October 6, 1909 in another hand.
3. LANGLEY, SAMUEL P. Autograph Letter Signed ("S.P. Langley"), Washington, April 6, no year, 2pp, on Smithsonian Institution letterhead.
4. A series of 19 photographs of the Yankee Clipper tipped to sheet with pasted captions below.
5. BYRD, RICHARD E. Skyward. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. Dust jacket. Later printing, SIGNED & INSCRIBED by Byrd., August 21, 1928.
6. BYRD, RICHARD E. Letter Signed, ("R.E. Byrd"), October 22, 1931, 1p.
7. Miller, Francis Trevelyan. The Wind in the Air. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. 2 volumes. LIMITED EDITION, no 294 of 500 sets, SIGNED by multiple aviation pioneers: Louis Bleriot, Glenn H. Curtiss, George Cayley, etc.
8. Bruel, Francois-Louis. Histore Aeronautique. Paris: Andre Marty, 1909. LIMITED EDITION, no 298 of 325 copies.
9. L'Aeronautica Itaiana nell'immagine 1487-1875. Milan: Museo Caproni, 1938. LIMITED EDITION.
10. A framed presentation of a piece of fabric from the Curtiss NC-4 that completed the first Trans-Atlantic flight on May 27, 1919.
11. Matted presentation of a piece of fabric from the Dayton Wright D.H.4 "Liberty Plane."
Lot also includes signed postcards by Henry Wynmalen, Stefano Amerigo, Marie Marvingt,

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Signed to Spencer Tracy 1952 Hemingway, Ernest. 1899-1961. The Old Man and the Sea, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

A Presentation Copy of Kennedy's First Book to Spencer Tracy. Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963. Why England Slept. New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1940.

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

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

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