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Lot #7496
Robert H. Goddard: First Edition of Rockets (1946)

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Description

Scarce unsigned book: Rockets by Robert H. Goddard, Including 'A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes' and 'Liquid-Propellant Rocket Development.' First edition. NY: American Rocket Society, 1946. Hardcover bound in the original blue cloth with original dust jacket, 6.25 x 9.25, 79 pages with an additional 21 plates. Book condition: VG/VG-, with ownership inscription to first free end page and front of jacket, price-clipped front jacket flap, and some soiling to the jacket.

The first edition in book form of Goddard's two seminal papers on rocket fuel, proposing that liquid-fueled rocket propulsion could be used to attain escape velocity and thereby land a projectile on the moon. ‘Goddard became posthumously world-famous as one of three scientific pioneers of rocketry…He worked out the theory of rocket propulsion independently; and then almost alone he designed, built, tested, and flew the first liquid-fuel rocket on 16 March 1926…His earlier publication in 1919 of A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes…laid the foundation from which team workers could launch men to the moon.’ This is the first combined printing of the two famous reports ‘on which all modern jet propulsion and rocket engineering are based,’ first published in the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Documented with numerous photographs showing launch apparatuses and tracking equipment.

Auction Info

  • Auction Title: Space Exploration
  • Dates: March 24, 2025 - April 17, 2025
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