AVIATION - Lot 255

AVIATION Important collection of letters and manuscripts on aviation, its pioneers and aces, airplanes, airlines, etc. Abel Hureau de Villeneuve (5, 1881-1890, about the founding of a practical aerostation school, the 1883 Aeronautical Exhibition, the Nadar collection, etc., to Gaston Tissandier, and to Professor Garcel, plus 2 leaflets). Project for an airplane with drawing, addressed to Gaston Tissandier (1882). General Pierre-Georges Laurent (certificate, and authorization for Captain Duchêne to conduct free balloon ascents, 1900). Ferdinand Ferber (1907). Commandant Gency to Duchêne (1907). E. Lallemand (Lunéville aeronautical park, 1908). Louis Chevalier (on the back of a postcard showing an aircraft in the workshop, 1911). Prince de Nissole (to Gaston Tissandier, inviting him to check his Paris-Pau departure, 1911). Adolphe Messimy (congratulations to Louis-Auguste Duchêne on his Aéroplane étudié et calculé..., 1911). Charles Maurain (Institut aérotechnique de l'Université de Paris 1912, about Wright, plus a prospectus printed by the Institut). Robert Baudouin-Rollane (interesting letter to J. Mortane on "our setbacks in military aviation", 1913). E. Desfontaine (Construction d'appareils aériens, invoice, 1913). Émile Paumier (6, including 5 long technical letters to Louis Chevalier, one with sketches and schematics, plus a set of construction plans on paper, 1913-1916). Jacques Hébert (3 to Louis Chevalier, 1914, one with photo). Marcel Merat, Souvenir de mon premier vol en aéroplane, a marvelous account of his outing with Captain Leclerc in a Farman (March 29, 1914), and Mon troisième vol en aéroplane exécuté à Villacoublay à bord du biplan Dorand piloted by the famous aviator Brindejonc des Moulinais (May 28, 1914). Commandant André-Casimir Biard (forbidding Louis Chevalier to carry out aeroplane flights, Le Havre 1915). Louis-Auguste Duchêne (minute d'un rapport après une visite au Creusot, au colonel Pénelon, avec réponses d'Albert Thomas, ministre de la Guerre et de Pénelon, 1915). Hubert Lyautey (congratulations to Duchêne, also signed by General Gossot, 1917). Georges Ravaine (to a balloonist, 1926). Julien Mamet (about an aviation meeting, Escadrille Mamet. Escadrille de propagande aéronautique 1927). Charles Froissart (2, exhibiting meeting programs, Ligue internationale des aviateurs 1927). Louis Bréguet (subscription bulletin for the Comptoir des approvisionnements de l'aviation et de l'aérostation, 1926, plus a typed text, "Quel fut mon vol le plus émouvant", headed Ateliers d'aviation Louis Bréguet). Louis Blériot (2 bulletins de souscription au Comptoir, 1926-1931; other bulletins by Henry Potez, Gabriel Arnaud); and some twenty proxies given to Farman, Caudron, Granet, J. Bréguet, etc., for general meetings of the Comptoir des Approvisionnements de l'aviation et de l'aérostation, 1920-1935, signed by Gabriel Arnaud, René Caudron, Léon Clément, Dick Farman, Henry Kapferer, etc.). Robert Esnault-Pelterie (brochure of his lecture on L'Exploration par fusées de la très haute atmosphère et la possibilité des voyages interplanétaires (1928), with a.s. dispatch). Léon Bathiat (2 to Alphonse Malfanti, 1933-1962, Les Vieilles Tiges). Joseph Sadi-Lecointe (to Malfanti, Association des Professionnels navigants de l'aviation 1933). Charles Belhague (to Duchêne, regarding an offer for the 81 empenné projectile, 1935). Gabriel Voisin (5, mostly to his "old brother" Malfanti, 1938-1963). Henri Molla (3, to Malfanti, 1957-1961). Joseph Frantz (beautiful letter about his former mechanic and machine-gunner Louis Quenault, 1958). Maurice Allard (14, including 2 on the back of old postcards, in Malfanti, 1961-1963). Willy Coppens de Houthulst (25, often long, to Dr. Fernand Fossier, evoking the beginnings of aviation, his pride and disappointment as a military pilot, Bellonte, Lindbergh, Costes, Weiss, Olieslagers and other Belgian aviators, 1970-1975)... Others from Robert Grandseigne (4), Santos-Dumont (dedication to H. de Parville), etc.