Contains selected patents dating from Apr. 20, 1897 to Dec. 4, 1906.
A typewritten index of the names of patent holders represented in the collection is inserted at the front of the volume.
"Presented to Aero Club of America, February, 1907, Raphael J. Moses"--Handwritten inscription in ink on front free endpaper. DSI
Local Notes:
NASMRB copy 39088012168530 has bookplates: 1. Aero Club of America ex libris [designed by Franklin Booth]; 2. "Loaned to the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences by the National Aeronautic Association." Accession no.: 9833. With some brief ms. pencil annotations and markings.
NASMRB copy has a green cloth binding with gilt-lettered spine ("Aero Club of America" is stamped at the foot of the spine); housed in a later green buckram portfolio (32 cm.) with white-lettered spine.