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Public Transportation Comes to Paris
Title label]: Nouvelles Voitures dites Omnibus. [Drop title]: Nouvelles Voitures a 25 Centimes...
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.
Paris, Chez Godet, [1828?].

[Title label]: Nouvelles Voitures dites Omnibus. [Drop title]: Nouvelles Voitures a 25 Centimes par Station, qui circulent dans Paris.

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

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Extremely Rare Satirical Print Of a Vehicular Utopia
“The Century of Invention. Anno Domini 2000. Or the March of Aerostation, Steam and Perpetual...
London ? c. 1834.

“The Century of Invention. Anno Domini 2000. Or the March of Aerostation, Steam and Perpetual Motion.”.

Extremely rare, separately-issued caricature printed on linen satirizing the early nineteenth-century British love affair with transportation. The print imagines the consequences of technological progress in the year 2000. It depicts a wild fantasy overrun with improbable vehicles from the impracticable and obsolete to the quixotic: steam-powered carriages, giant hydrogen balloons..... More

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SAMMELBAND ON FARMING
IN 19TH-CENTURY ITALY
Del Nuovo Concime…. Raimondo COSTETTI
[Agriculture] / [Italy].
Florence, Bencini, 1838

Del Nuovo Concime….

Extensive sammelband of 17 early 19th-century Italian agricultural treatises relating to exotic crops, pest control, farm storage, seed scattering, etc. Cotton, peanuts, potatoes, wheat, swedes (a root vegetable popular in England), clover, apples, and other crops are discussed, as is an American decorative annual, Madia sativa, which appears to have..... More

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The Airplane
Experiments and observations in Soaring flight. By Mr. Wilbur Wright / Dayton Ohio/ Printed in...

Experiments and observations in Soaring flight. By Mr. Wilbur Wright / Dayton Ohio/ Printed in advance of the Journal of the Western Society of Engineers / Vol. III No. 4 August 1903.

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

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18th-Century Sales Catalogue of the Library of Claret de Fleurieu
Rich in Americana and Voyages Related to Fleurieu’s Naval
Career and Publications
Charles-Pierre CLARET DE FLEURIEU
[Americana] / [Exploration] / [Cartography].
Paris, Mauger and Hubert, An VI [1798]

Rare first and only edition of the catalogue for the sale in 1798 of the library of Charles-Pierre Claret de Fleurieu (1738-1810), the French explorer and hydrographer, who was Minister of the Navy under Louis XVI, a member of the Institut de France, and who collaborated with Ferdinand Berthoud (1727-1807)..... More

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