Aërial Navigation. A Practical Handbook on the Construction of Dirigible Balloons, Aërostats, Aëroplanes, and Aëromotors.

FREDERICK WALKER.

Verlag: Crosby Lockwood & Son, London, 1902

Beschreibung

First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xvi, 151pp + xlviii publisher's catalogue and xvi publisher's list. Brown cloth with bevelled edges, lettered in gold at the spine and upper board with a black-stamped decoration with double blind borders. "With about one hundred illustrations". Publisher's price notice tipped to the front free endpaper, as required. Some bruising to the backstrip ends, and just a tiny trace of wear to several corner tips. Former owner name and several numerals to the half-title verso. A very good copy of this early work on the theory, practice and development of aviation (somewhat heavy on the umlauts). A one-page advertising flyer ("Executive for 1902") for The Aeronautical Institute and Club (founded in 1901 "to encourage practical experiment in Aeronautics, and generally to advance the interest of the Science") laid-in. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ARC93827

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Aërial Navigation. A Practical Handbook on ...

Verlag: Crosby Lockwood & Son, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1902

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition