Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 182

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
GODDARD, ROBERT HUTCHINGS. A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes. 10 photographic plates. [4], 69 pages. 8vo, 244x161 mm, original tan wrappers; foxing on fore edges slightly showing internally on a few leaves, contents otherwise clean; unopened; cloth-backed board folder. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1919 [i. e., 1920]
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first edition of an account of Goddard's early jet propulsion experiments, concluding with a discussion of the feasibility of sending a rocket to the moon. Ciancone 84; DSB V, 433.