[Rarebooks] fs: Brazillian aviation pioneer, Santos-Dumont...

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(No. 7431 )  Napoleao, Aluzio (translated by Luiz Victor le Cocq D'Oliveira)
[Napoleão]. SANTOS-DUMONT AND THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR (MINISTRY OF STATE FOR
FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF BRAZIL, DIVISION OF INTELLECTUAL CO-OPERATION, BRAZILIAN
STUDIES COLLECTION -1-).
Rio de Janeiro: National Printing Office, 1945. First printing, Wrappers,
Octavo, 333 pages + annex, Black & White photographs, illustrations. Very
good.
      Volume II of this adulatory collection of contemporaneous documents,
articles, photographs, and encyclopedia entries on the exploits of Brazil's
famous aviation pioneer, Alberto Santos-Dumont. Santos-Dumont experimented
extensively with dirigibles and aeroplanes, and claimed priority above the
Wright brothers in flight with a heavier-than-air machine. Paper covers
printed with black titles on spine and front cover. Some browning and
staining to covers, shallow chips to heel of spine, head of spine has a 2"
closed tear along upper joint. Binding is sound.    $75.00
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