1909 Jane's All The World's Airships
London: David and Charles Reprints, 1969. Quarto, green cloth with spine lettering, 374 pp., frontispiece, illustrated throughout with diagrams, photographs in black and white, and drawings. Stamp on front free-endpaper 'A.E. 50 Roland Court, Sheffield 7306', otherwise a fine copy in dust-jacket. Reprint. This is a facsimile reprint of the first edition ever issued of Jane's All The World's Airships. The emphasis was still on the airship, whose development still had some way to go. For this issue, Fred Jane lacked many pictures that he wanted, and here and there he made incorrect surmises; but the work gives unique view of the stage reached by air travel, for peace or war, at the end of its first decade. Item #3963
Price (AUD): $150.00