Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1945-46 A Reprint of the 1945/6 Edition of All the World's Aircraft
New York: Arco Publishing Company, 1970. Quarto, bottle-green cloth, 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 rubbed, lower edges of covers rubbed, pale water mark on fore-edge of last few leaves without loss of text, leaves 77 adv to 80 adv (advertising) have come away from the binding and are worn on the lower edges, dust-jacket is worn at top and tail edges and foxed on the inside; otherwise a very good 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 #4685
Price (AUD): $190.00