ESNAULT-PELTERIE, ROBERT. L'Exploration par Fusées de la très Haute Atmosphère et la Possibilité des Voyages Interplanétaires. 8vo, original buff wrappers, some wear along cover edges, portions missing from top and bottom of backstrip; uncut and unopened. Paris, 1928
first edition of an essay on problems of space travel, devoting particular attention to the escape velocity required to overcome the gravitational pull of the earth; published as a special supplement to the Bulletin de la Société Astronomique de France. Ciancone 65; Interlibrum 270/113; Norman 714.
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