Estimate: | £100 - £150 |
Hammer price: | £30 |
BARRES, Fernand (1881-1962), Eugène BRÉMARD (dates unknown), Adolphe SCHOELLER (1862-1944), and others. Les Transformateurs d’ Énergie. Générateurs. Accumulateurs. Moteurs. Avec les plus Récentes Applications a la Navigation Aérienne. Paris: Aristide Quillet, 1910. 2 volumes, 4to (292 x 207mm). Half titles, titles printed in red and black, 13 coloured lithographed plates printed on thick card with flaps. Original pictorial cloth gilt. Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION. The subjects of the plates, which reveal the inner workings of various machines by means of liftable flaps, include “La Locomotive Compound”, “La Motorcyclette”, “L’Automobile type Daimler”, “Les Aéronats” [airship], “L’ Aéroplane Wright”, “L’ Aéroplane Voisin” and “La Télégraphie sans fil”. (2)