The Otto Kallir Collection of Aviation History.

New York: Sotheby's, June 14, 1993,

quarto, wrappers. (137)pp., followed by XV color plates and a one page index. 211 lots. Sotheby's, Fine copy. Item #3740

With a 2pp. biography of the collector. A collection mainly comprised of letters and manuscripts: Ballooning, Amelia Earhart, Otto Lilienthal, Lindberg, Robert E. Peary, Wilbur and Orville Wright, Zeppelin, and much more. One lot is comprised of 750 propaganda leaflets, pamphlets, and journals, dropped from airplanes and balloons in the first World War. Besides the color plates at end, there are numerous black and white text illustrations.

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