Timina Caproni Guasti e Achille Bertarelli

Museo Caproni, Milano, Edizioni d'Arte Emilio Bestetti, 1938. Emilio Bestetti Art Editions. In folio (cm 40.5x32.5). [12], IV, 184 p, 174 plates. Splendid editorial hardcover binding, with imitation parchment spine, gilt nerves and title, illustrated on the plates, gilded upper edge. Beautiful copy printed on heavy paper. Edition of 500 copies of which only 100 are on sale. Slight traces of use on the binding, light foxing on the cuts; overall good copy

First edition of this fundamental text on aeronautics with detailed bibliography up to 1875 compiled by G. Boffito and with a precious iconographic collection