Oct 11, 2001 - Sale 1908

Sale 1908 - Lot 279

Price Realized: $ 288
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
CHANUTE, OCTAVE. Nº 13,372. A.D. 1897 . . . Improvements in and relating to Flying Machines. Double-page plate (rehinged with cloth tape). 4 pages. 4to, disbound; dated institutional stamp on first page, faint embossed stamp on plates.<\t>(London, 1898)

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First printing of the British patent for the articulated multiple-winged glider known as the "Katydid," test-flown in 1896, which Chanute subsequently simplified to the biplane design that was the basis for the Wrights' glider (see lot 291).<