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KONSTANTIN EDUARDOVICH TSIOLKOVSKII (1857-1935), SERGEI PAVLOVICH KOROLEV (1907-1966), YURI ALEKSEEVICH GAGARIN (1934-1968), ET AL.
A collection of 10 works relating to space travel and aeronautics, comprising: S. KOROLEV. Raketnyi Polet v Stratosfere [Rocket Flight in the Stratosphere]. Moscow: 1934. Diagrams. (Light browning.) Original wrappers printed in green and yellow (some wear at spine). Provenance: Aleksei Leonov (bookplate on title). FIRST EDITION. COSMONAUT ALEKSEI LEONOV'S COPY OF KOROLEV, the Chief Designer of the Soviet space programme. In this book Korolev surveys developments in rocket propulsion and describes the potential of high altitude rocket flight. Leonov's bookplate shows the rocket Voskhod-2 which, under the command of Korolev, carried Leonov, who became the first man to spacewalk. K. TSIOLKOVSKII. Grezy o Zemle i Nebe [Dreams of the Earth and Sky]. Moscow: 1935. Portrait engraving and illustrations. (Occasional light browning.) Original pictorial wrappers (spine caps chipped, short tears). Provenance: Aleksei Leonov (his earlier bookplate). LEONOV'S COPY OF TSIOLKOVSKII. I. GAGARIN. Doroga v Kosmos [Road to Space]. Moscow: 1961. Illustrations. Original cloth, original dust-jacket, unopened. Provenance: Valentina Gagarin (manuscript note laid-in; sale, Sotheby's New York, 16 March 1996, lot 2 (part lot)). FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY IN DUST-JACKET WITH A FAMILY PROVENANCE. The autobiography of the man known in Russia as 'the Columbus of the Cosmos'. K. TSIOLKOVSKII. Novyi Aeroplan [A New Aeroplane]. Kaluga: 1929. (Light browning.) Original wrappers. FIRST EDITION. -- Izbrannye Trudy [Selected Works]. Leningrad: 1934. 2 vols. Diagrams. (Dampstain in vol. 2, light browning.) Original cloth, original dust-jackets (dust-jackets worn and repaired). FIRST EDITION. F. TSANDER. Problema Poleta Pri Pomoshchi Reaktivnykh Apparatov [Problems of Jet-Assisted Flight Apparatus]. Moscow: 1932. Diagrams. (Light browning.) Original wrappers (spine with small repair, light soiling). Provenance: stamp on front wrapper. FIRST EDITION. Together with: Hermann NOORDUNG, Problema Puteshestviia v Mirovom Prostranstve [Problems of Space Travel], Moscow and Leningrad: 1935, the first edition in Russian; P. DUBENSKII and others, Reaktivnoe Dvizhenie [Jet Motion], Leningrad: 1936; and K. TSIOLKOVSKII. Proekt Metallicheskogo dirizhablia [Project for a Metal Dirigible to Carry 40 Persons], Kaluga: 1930. (10)
A collection of 10 works relating to space travel and aeronautics, comprising: S. KOROLEV. Raketnyi Polet v Stratosfere [Rocket Flight in the Stratosphere]. Moscow: 1934. Diagrams. (Light browning.) Original wrappers printed in green and yellow (some wear at spine). Provenance: Aleksei Leonov (bookplate on title). FIRST EDITION. COSMONAUT ALEKSEI LEONOV'S COPY OF KOROLEV, the Chief Designer of the Soviet space programme. In this book Korolev surveys developments in rocket propulsion and describes the potential of high altitude rocket flight. Leonov's bookplate shows the rocket Voskhod-2 which, under the command of Korolev, carried Leonov, who became the first man to spacewalk. K. TSIOLKOVSKII. Grezy o Zemle i Nebe [Dreams of the Earth and Sky]. Moscow: 1935. Portrait engraving and illustrations. (Occasional light browning.) Original pictorial wrappers (spine caps chipped, short tears). Provenance: Aleksei Leonov (his earlier bookplate). LEONOV'S COPY OF TSIOLKOVSKII. I. GAGARIN. Doroga v Kosmos [Road to Space]. Moscow: 1961. Illustrations. Original cloth, original dust-jacket, unopened. Provenance: Valentina Gagarin (manuscript note laid-in; sale, Sotheby's New York, 16 March 1996, lot 2 (part lot)). FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY IN DUST-JACKET WITH A FAMILY PROVENANCE. The autobiography of the man known in Russia as 'the Columbus of the Cosmos'. K. TSIOLKOVSKII. Novyi Aeroplan [A New Aeroplane]. Kaluga: 1929. (Light browning.) Original wrappers. FIRST EDITION. -- Izbrannye Trudy [Selected Works]. Leningrad: 1934. 2 vols. Diagrams. (Dampstain in vol. 2, light browning.) Original cloth, original dust-jackets (dust-jackets worn and repaired). FIRST EDITION. F. TSANDER. Problema Poleta Pri Pomoshchi Reaktivnykh Apparatov [Problems of Jet-Assisted Flight Apparatus]. Moscow: 1932. Diagrams. (Light browning.) Original wrappers (spine with small repair, light soiling). Provenance: stamp on front wrapper. FIRST EDITION. Together with: Hermann NOORDUNG, Problema Puteshestviia v Mirovom Prostranstve [Problems of Space Travel], Moscow and Leningrad: 1935, the first edition in Russian; P. DUBENSKII and others, Reaktivnoe Dvizhenie [Jet Motion], Leningrad: 1936; and K. TSIOLKOVSKII. Proekt Metallicheskogo dirizhablia [Project for a Metal Dirigible to Carry 40 Persons], Kaluga: 1930. (10)
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