Gustave EIFFEL
La Résistance de l'air et l'aviation. Expériences effectuées au laboratoire du Champ-de-Mars[The Resistance of the Air and Aviation: Experiments Conducted at the Champ‑de‑Mars Laboratory]
H. Dunod & E. Pinat|Paris 1910|25 x 32.2 cm|Reliure de l'éditeur
First edition, with a frontispiece photograph depicting Gustave Eiffel in his laboratory, and 28 plates outside the text, some folding (an additional copy of plate 26 is included).
Publisher’s binding in white cloth-backed boards with corners, flat spine showing some soiling and small tears at head and foot, printed paper label mounted on spine, printed title on upper board, corners slightly rubbed.
Pleasant internal condition.
A light water stain in the left margin of the frontispiece and at the foot of the lower cover, some soiling to the bottom of the upper cover, and a few pencil annotations in the margins.
The author presents the results of experiments car
€850
