BAUDRY DE SAUNIER, L.

Histoire Générale de la Vélocipédie: Contenant Plus de 150 Gravures, Estampes anciennes, Caricatures anglaises et françaises sur la Vélocipédie, Dessins, etc.

Paris: Paul Ollendorf, Éditeur, 1891. Third edition. 8vo; 321 pp.; more than 150 ilustrations. Wear and crude tape repairs to original wrappers; else a very good copy in later gilt-stamped red buckram with original wrappers bound in. A French perspective on the history of the bicycle, illustrated with caricatures, technical drawings, etc. tracing the development of the machine from the French Revolution to 1891. Important reference. Scarce. Item #005789

Price: $375.00