Cycling/Giffard/Women's sports/MArs. "The queen bicycle". The fundamental book, in its beautiful edition of 1891, with its mythical cover... The pedaling revolution is there, in these 80 pages, in this bicycle that brandishes higher than the highest bi, the frail creature of dream of Mars. The freedom will be able to break through, the wings of which Maurice Leblanc will speak are there....The social benefit bursts, the queen bicycle will become "the small queen". 24X16. At Firmin-Didot. Small lack in bottom on the right. Extremely rare. Pierre Giffard (1853-1922) inventor, popularizer, journalist, great humanist reporter and visionary, has without any doubt his place in the Pantheon. Assisted here by the pencil of Mars-Bonvoisin (1849-1912), he delivers a major work to be reread, like many others.

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