Apr 03, 2008 - Sale 2140

Sale 2140 - Lot 52

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
ESNAULT-PELTERIE, ROBERT. Considérations sur les Résultats d'un Allégement Indéfini des Moteurs. in: Journal de Physique Théorique et Appliqué . . . Cinquième Série, Tome III, pages 218-30. 8vo, original wrappers, covers chipped along edges, backstrip imperfect. 16-page advertising supplement bound in. Paris, March 1913

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first edition. "the first scientific discussion of the preliminary conditions of space travel and of sending a rocket to the Planets Venus and Mars and to the moon, based on exact mathematical calculations of the speed and power input necessary to overcome gravitation, till then a subject of science fiction"--Interlibrum 270/112. Norman 713.