Paris: Obelisk press, 1933. Octavo, black cloth with gilt spine lettering and bucking mule motif to the front board, 228 pp., frontispiece, 23 plates in black & white. Previous owner's inscription to half-title page, otherwise a near-fine copy. An intimate history of the 95th, being the first American Flying Squadron..... More
Washington D.C. The Smithsonian Institution, 1916. Octavo, printed wrappers, 92 pp., five plates. Loose wrappers, tape-marked wrappers, stamp from the Panama Canal Library on front wrapper, inscriptions in red pen '506 Sm69m Doc' on front wrapper and title leaf; overall, a good copy. A collection of ten reports on Wind..... More
Sydney: W.C. Penfold and the Australasian News Co., 1915. Octavo, title with list of contents verso, then paginated 9-97; with a total of 20 plates (one frontispiece and one single sided plate, and 18 double sided photo plates). The book is compositionally complex, as the first eight pages are actually..... More
Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 2006. Octavo, printed wrappers, 268 pp., 16 double-sided illustrated plates. A near fine copy. This new edition of L.T.C Rolt's classic book is a complete history of balloons and the intrepid men and women who flew in them, from the first flights until 1903, when the Wright..... More
Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2006. Octavo, printed wrappers, 268 pp., 16 double sided plates. A very fine copy. Well known industrial historian and author, Rolt, draws from primary source evidence and contemporary accounts in his publication on the history of balloons. From those first nascent flights in 1903 to the heavier-than-air..... More
