LILIENTHAL, OTTO. - THE FATHER OF MODERN AVIATION.

Die Flugapparate. Allgemeine Geschichtspunkte bei deren Herstellung und Anwendung.

Berlin, Mayer & Müller, 1894. Lex8vo. Contemp. clothbacked boards with the orig. printed covers pasted on boards. A paperlabel pasted on boards and spine. Nicks an some browning on printed covers, no loss of text. A stamp on title-page. On frontcover a picture of Lilienthal's famous Hangglider (Modell Stölln ?). 15,(1) pp. "Sonderabdruck aus Nr. 6 der Zeitschrift für Luftschiffahrt und Physik der Atmisphäre. Juni 1894."

First edition in the OFFPRINT-ISSUE. A main paper in aviation history. "The key figure in aviation during the last decade of the century, and one of the greatest men in the history of fling, was the german otto Lilienthal (1848-96). The past culminated in him, and the future was born in him. He was the first man in the world to launch himself into the air and fly. It was his gliding that led directly to the work of Chanute and the Wrights, whom he resembled in his appoach to aviation, in his talents, and in his igh qualities of integrity and humility. Lilienthal, says Dollfus simply, 'est le père de l'aviation moderne'." (Gibbs-Smith "Aviation. A historical survey...", pp. 89-90.).

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