History Of Aviation from The Owl at the Bridge

Includes A Collection of Globes (lots 400-445); a Celestial Atlas; Scientific Instruments (lots 447455; Houdon's L'écorché in bronze; Books & Manuscripts (lots 457-485); Aviation (lots 486-511); Space History (lots 512-592); Technology (lots593-658)recorders, cipher machines, computers, robots). 258 lots, index; color illustrations; glossy paper covers; fine. Stock#ofc0493.

Bookseller catalogue; 282 items, illustrated; stapled in blue pictoial paper covers; Very Good. Stock#ofc0291.

Aviation (lots 1-16); Wright Brothers (17-39); Rocketry & Unmanned Exploration (40-51); Soviet & Russian Hardware, Gear, & Models (52-67); American Gear, Hardware & Models(68-81); Project Mercury (82-95); Project Gemini (96-115); Apollo Program through Apollo 10 (116-127); Apollo 11 (128-146); Apollo 12-17 (147-206); ShuttleMissions (207-213). Auction catalog: 75 pages, index, color illus.; 26.5 cm. Color pictorial paper covers; VG+.… Ler mais sobre este item

NY, Putnam's Sons / Knickerbocker Press, 1927. Lindbergh's transatlantic flight on 20-21 May took 33-1/2 hours. This book was published in July; this is the "second impression." Hard Cover. 318 pages, 48 illus.; 21 cm. Vg / no dj. Stock#NS0324.

A wartime book. Flying in the Pacific in 1942, Rickenbacker's pilot missed their island destination and crashed. For three weeks the eight men drifted in life rafts until rescued. "Everything you can pack into twenty-one days and three rubber rafts." Book club edition; Very Good in VG dust jacket. Stock#27116/h.