Order Nr. 64871 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF BOOKS AND ENGRAVINGS ILLUSTRATING THE EVOLUTION OF THE AIRSHIP AND THE AEROPLANE. Maggs 387.

A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF BOOKS AND ENGRAVINGS ILLUSTRATING THE EVOLUTION OF THE AIRSHIP AND THE AEROPLANE.

(Aeronautics).
  • (Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing, 2001).
  • 8vo.
  • cloth
  • (vi), iv, 170 pages with 15 leaves of illustrations
  • ISBN: 1578983193

Price: $65.00  other currencies

Order Nr. 64871

Facsimile edition of Bibliotheca Aeronautica first published in London in 1920. Catalogue no. 387 from Maggs Brothers described a collection of 1494 books, pamphlets and engravings on early aeronautics. Designed to trace the evolution of aviation from the early times to the close of the First World War, each entry contains a full description, price, cross references with the standard bibliographies of the day and short but useful annotations. With thirty-five black-and-white illustrations throughout.