REVUE "L'AERONAUTE", monthly illustrated bulletin on aerial - Lot 988

REVUE "L'AERONAUTE", monthly illustrated bulletin on aerial navigation, "admitted to the technical library of the 1878 exhibition", founded and edited by Dr. Abel Hureau de Villeneuve, laureate of the Institut-Académie des Sciences. EXTREMELY RARE COMPLETE YEAR 1878. First-edition collection of the year's 12 superb copies, as issued. Main subjects covered: the center of gravity of birds, physiological research by Paul BERT, oscillations and vibrations of bodies, application of the telephone to aeronautics, Histoire des ascensions by Gaston Tissandier, apparatus for measuring air resistance, telegraph experiments with flying deer, new gas engines etc. etc. NOTA: l'aéronaute: the first aeronautical publication in history, with contributions from some of the world's greatest precursors, both pilots and scientists - Now an extremely rare publication, it bears witness to the beginning of the aeronautical adventure and the conquest of the skies by those "heavier than air".