(AVIATION) Bulletins of the Aerial Experiment Association No

Sale 1947 - Lot 77

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WITH ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL & GLENN CURTISS (AVIATION)<>
Bulletins of the Aerial Experiment Association. No. 39: A Souvenir Volume of Enlarged Photographs Illustrating the Work of the A. E. A.<> Edited by Alexander Graham Bell. With 31 original photographs illustrating the progress of aerial invention from Kite Cygnet No. 1 to McCurdy's Silver Dart (Drome No. 4), the first flight over Canada and beyond; also includes a portrait of Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell, the founder of the Association, and a photograph of f. w. baldwin, t.s. baldwin, wm. f. bedwin, alexander graham bell, glenn h. curtiss, j.e. douglas mccurdy, <>and thomas e. selfridge.<> Silver prints, 7x6 inches (17.8x15.2 cm.) and the reverse; captioned, in the negative, on recto. 4to, printed wrappers, sunned with minor wear. 1908

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The volume contains artfully composed photographs providing a unique and invaluable documentation of early aerial invention, with an extensive typewritten description of each photograph in the introductory pages.<