Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1945-46 A Reprint of the 1945/6 Edition of All the World's Aircraft
Devon, UK: David & Charles Reprints, 1970. Quarto, bottle-green cloth, spine embossed with gilt lettering, spine embossed with gilt lettering, 146 pp. of advertisements at front, 24 pp. of Addenda, remainder with uncommon pagination, total of approximately 700 pp. Profusely illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs, tables, graphs, diagrams and silhouettes. Spine ends and corners a little bumped and rubbed, dust-jacket a little worn at top edge; otherwise a near-fine copy. 1970 reprint. A comprehensive history of the world's aeronautical progress and civil aviation, including a descriptive list of the world's aeroplanes, current at the end of 1946. As described by Leonard Bridgman in the preface, this volume is "essentially a war [World War Two] edition" of the Jane's series. It contains extensive documentation of the aircraft used by the combatant forces right up to the end of the war and includes once-classified information on German aircraft. With over 700 images, including blacked-in silhouette three-view drawings, this highly detailed volume is a valuable piece of aviation history. Item #4684
Embossed stamp on lower right of front free endpaper with "JAV Library of Jim Valentine"
Price (AUD): $190.00