Apr 17, 2008 - Sale 2142

Sale 2142 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
GODDARD'S HISTORIC 1926 ROCKET LAUNCH GODDARD, ROBERT H. Liquid-Propellant Rocket Development. 11 photographic plates. 8vo, original wrappers. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1936

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first edition of a report on tests carried out by Goddard at Roswell, New Mexico, during the early 1930s; "includes the first public mention of Goddard's historic 1926 liquid-fueled rocket launch"--Ciancone 85. DSB V, 433; Von Braun & Ordway, page 22.