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Album and cassette containing c. 500 postcards from the early days of aviation in Belgium and France. C. 1900 Silver prints and collotypes, approx. 9 x 13,8 cm, b/w and colour, mostly written and stamped, tipped in. Folio album with art nouveau decoration and slipcase. Nice collection of aviation pioneers such as Charles Van der Born, Jan Olieslagers, Josef Christiaens, Arthur Duray, Daniel Kinet, Félix Liedel, Louis Blériot, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Wilbur Wright, Henri Wynmalen, Eugène Renaux, Georges Legagneux, Geo Chavez, Jules Védrines, Marcel Hanriot, Jean Daillens, Adolphe Pegoud, Georges Pelletier d'Oisy, Adolphe Pégoud, Henri Farman, Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Louis Paulhan, Louis Malécot, Charles Lindbergh, Léon Delagrange, René Vidart, Roger Sommer (a few are signed), as well as renowned female pilots: Baronne de Laroche (the first woman in the world to obtain a pilot’s licence in 1910 in France), Lucienne Cayat de Castella, Marthe Niel, etc. Views of planes, seaplanes, warplanes, aeroplanes, hot-air balloons and dirigibles ; aircraft accidents (death of Nicolas Kinet and Geo Chavez); air shows in Brussels (Stockel), Antwerp (with the visit of Prince Albert in 1909), Reims, etc.
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