Buy this book on-line FREDERICK WALKER : Aėrial Navigation. A Practical Handbook on the Construction of Dirigible Balloons, Aėrostats, Aėroplanes, and AėromotorsCrosby Lockwood & Son, London, 1902
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.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of FREDERICK WALKER : Aėrial Navigation. A Practical Handbook on the Construction of Dirigible Balloons, Aėrostats, Aėroplanes, and Aėromotors. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres d'occasion, out-of-print books, used books, livres illustrées and atlases. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |