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The Genesis of Flight: The Aeronautical History Collection of Colonel Richard Gimbel by Richard Gimbel,

The Genesis of Flight illustrates one of the most prestigious aeronautical history collections in existence, covering the history of man's dream of flight from antiquity to the advent of powered flight at the beginning of the 20th century. The items included are drawn from more than 20,000 objects that vividly reflect both humanity's vision antique and collectible stamp and its fulfillment. Five-thousand-year-old seals carved from semiprecious stones antique and collectible stamp and used to inscribe clay tablets record the earliest conception of flight. Among the collection's thousands of books are priceless volumes printed before 1501. Many, such as Robert Hooke's Philosophical Collections (1682), are serious, scientific studies of the possibility of flight. Others are about imaginary voyages into space antique and collectible stamp and to other worlds, including Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1547), Cyrano de Bergerac's account of a voyage to the moon first published in 1650, and, of course, the 19th-century classics of Jules Verne. More than 2,000 prints, portraits, engravings, etchings, woodcuts, antique and collectible stamp and lithographs comprise a unique antique and collectible stamp and arresting pictorial history of aeronautics. Important letters written by pioneers of flight -- Montgolfier, Blanchard, Lunardi, Lilienthal, Count von Zeppelin, Santos-Dumont, Langley, antique and collectible stamp and the Wright brothers -- are to be found among the collection's manuscript holdings. There are also rare commemorative medallions, sheet music, posters, dime novels, postcards antique and collectible stamp and postage stamps, early flight manuals, catalogues of aircraft equipment, match boxes, antique and collectible stamp and children's games antique and collectible stamp and toys -- all recording, in one way or another, humanity's aspirations to fly. The collection was assembled by Richard Gimbel (1898-1970), who began collecting whileserving with the 8th U.S. Army Air Force in England during World War II, antique and collectible stamp and continued after becoming curator of aeronautical literature at Yale University. The collection was donated to the United States Air Force Academy upon his death.
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Grace and Glory: A Century of Women in the Olympics by Triumph Books,

From 1000 B.C. to the present, Grace antique and collectible stamp and Glory takes readers on an amazing journey from ancient Greece to Atlanta, celebrating women's efforts along the way. This special collection features memorabilia that has never been released to the public, including rare color antique and collectible stamp and archival photos, antique prints antique and collectible stamp and posters, reproductions of costumes, stamps antique and collectible stamp and trading cards, antique and collectible stamp and historic magazine antique and collectible stamp and newspaper clippings. Full color throughout.
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