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François-Louis Bruel - Histoire aéronautique par les Monuments, Peints, Sculptés, Dessinés et Gravés des origines à 1830. - 1909
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François-Louis Bruel - Histoire aéronautique par les Monuments, Peints, Sculptés, Dessinés et Gravés des origines à 1830. - 1909

Paris, André Marty, 1909, folio (35.5 x 28.5 cm), bound in contemporary half-green morocco with wide leather corners. Titles and beautiful Art Nouveau gilt decorations on the spine, marbled boards with gilt fillets, gilt top edge, marbled endpapers, pp. (6)-93-(4) of text + 206 illustrations in black & white and color, executed with various techniques (chromolithography, photogravure; some plates are hand-colored), and occasionally applied to the pages. A work of remarkable charm and typographic beauty, printed on paper by Perrigot-Masure at Frazier-Soye. Photogravures by Fortier et Marotte; watercolors by Saudé. Traces of well-executed restoration to the hinges (with two reinforcing strips inside, in marbled paper), very slight abrasions to the edges and corners, ownership signatures on the title page. A solid volume, in excellent condition. Numbered edition of only 325 copies (our copy being number 107).

No. 82453559

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François-Louis Bruel - Histoire aéronautique par les Monuments, Peints, Sculptés, Dessinés et Gravés des origines à 1830. - 1909

François-Louis Bruel - Histoire aéronautique par les Monuments, Peints, Sculptés, Dessinés et Gravés des origines à 1830. - 1909

Paris, André Marty, 1909, folio (35.5 x 28.5 cm), bound in contemporary half-green morocco with wide leather corners. Titles and beautiful Art Nouveau gilt decorations on the spine, marbled boards with gilt fillets, gilt top edge, marbled endpapers, pp. (6)-93-(4) of text + 206 illustrations in black & white and color, executed with various techniques (chromolithography, photogravure; some plates are hand-colored), and occasionally applied to the pages. A work of remarkable charm and typographic beauty, printed on paper by Perrigot-Masure at Frazier-Soye. Photogravures by Fortier et Marotte; watercolors by Saudé. Traces of well-executed restoration to the hinges (with two reinforcing strips inside, in marbled paper), very slight abrasions to the edges and corners, ownership signatures on the title page. A solid volume, in excellent condition. Numbered edition of only 325 copies (our copy being number 107).

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