DOLLFUS, Charles and BOUCÉ, Henri. Histoire de la marine - Histoire de la locomotion - Histoire de l'aéronautique. Published in Paris by L'Illustration between 1932 and 1939. In 5 folio-sized volumes. Midnight blue half-chagrin. Approx. 500 pages per volume, 1 full-color frontispiece on each volume, a few plates of color illustrations pasted in off-text, numerous black & white and color illustrations and photos in the text. Rubbing, 1 vol. as is (tears to spines), boards soiled on 1 volume. Clean inside. Rich set of monographs from the L'Illustration collection, dealing with the main means of transport. Each volume offers a comprehensive technical and historical overview, illustrated with thousands of black and color illustrations and photographs. Composed as follows: - Histoire de la locomotion terrestre (la locomotion naturelle - l'attelage - la voiture - le cyclisme - la locomotion mécanique - l'automobile). Text and documentation by Baudry de Saunier, Charles Dollfus and Edgar De Geoffroy, Paris, L'Illustration, 1936. XV and 446 pp. - History of land locomotion: Les chemins de fers. Text and documentation by Charles Dollfus and Edgar De Geoffroy. Paris, L'Illustration, 1935. XIII and 376 pp. - Histoire de la marine. Text by Georges G. Toudouze, Ch. de la Roncière, Joannès Tramond, Cdt Rondeleux, Charles Dollfus, Raymond Lestonnat ; published by L'Illustration under the artistic direction of Albert Sébille ; with the collaboration of René Lefébure, Paris, 1939. XI and 605 pp. - Histoire de l'aéronautique by Charles Dollfus and Henri Boucé, Paris, L'Illustration, 1938. XXV and 613 pp. Another copy of the latter title is enclosed: Histoire de l'aéronautique by Charles Dollfus and Henri Boucé, Paris, L'Illustration, 1932. XXIII and 571 pp. In-folio format, bound in publisher's full black boards, illustrated in relief on the front cover (covers stained). First edition.