Extremely rare illustrated brochure announcing the introduction of mass public transport to Paris, the second city to adopt the ‘omnibus’ after its invention in Nantes by Stanislas Baudry in 1826. As the present work makes it clear, however, the original purpose of such carriages was hardly to transport workers to..... More

A fine copy of the first separate printing, the offprint issue, of this key work in aeronautical engineering “from the private library of Orville Wright” hand-stamped on the verso of the front wrapper. “Using a glider construction of earlier experimenters, Wilbur and Orville Wright (1871-1948) added motive power to wings..... More