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LOT 853
SOLD €260,00

[Aviation] 2me Grande Semaine d'Aviation de Champagne 3-10 Juillet 1910

H.G. Laignier, portraits charges de Mich. Imprimerie cooprative de Reims. 80 pp. + 19 pages each with two photos concerning the Air Show. Oblong, cloth with Art Nouveau design. 28.5 x 38 cm.

Sl. stained on front and back cover, good copy. *An additional 168 trains were used for the spectacular show. The highest flying plane, at 155 metres, was awarded 10.000 Francs. Not everyone escaped unharmed. 7 airplanes and several pilots were damaged beyond repair. Baroness Raymonde de Laroche left the battlefield with multiple arm and leg fractures.

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