Lot 21 of 230:
Rare French juvenile on Aviation 1911  

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$270
Estimate:
$400 - $600

Title:
Les péripéties de l'aviation

Author:
Xaudaró, Joaquin

Place:
Paris

Publisher:
Garnier Freres

Date:
[1911]

Description:

Half-title, title-page, & 50 pochoir colored plates. (Folio) 31.5x24 cm. (12½x9½"), original color pictorial cloth. First Edition.

Rare work by the Spanish cartoonist, illustrator and caricaturist Joaquín Xaudaró y Echau (1872–1933), chronicling the perils of flight in a humorous manner. OCLC/WorldCat lists only three copies, at Claremont College, Harvard University, and Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam.


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Condition:
Spine faded with come rubbing, front joint starting to split; front hinge cracked; very good.


 
Item number:
299327a
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