London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1905. Octavo, original attractive illustrated cloth, 124 pp., quaint vignettes throughout. Endpapers are foxed and front free endpaper clipped at top-edge; the text-block itself has been bumped resulting in some creased corners. Otherwise a most attractive copy. A most readable account of ballooning from the..... More
London: John Crowther Publication, 1946. Octavo, original beige cloth, ix, 238 pp., numerous plates. Boards a little bit worn at spine and extremities, small bum at bottom-edge of front board, otherwise a very good copy. The story of aviation from its humble beginnings in the 17th century with ballooning to..... More
London: Carlton Books, 1999. Quarto, hardcover, 96 pp., illustrated. A fine copy. An account of early types of aircraft from Leonardo da Vinci's many designs for a flying machine to the first hydrogen balloon to the the Hindenburg. From the aviation collection of David Marshall. More
Stradbroke, Norfolk: Tarquin Publications, 1992. Octavo, printed wrappers, 28 pp., illustrated. Cover slightly creased, overall a near-fine copy. A collection of three famous balloons to cut out and make and a minibook which tells about them and their history. More
London: William Collins, 2014. Paperback, xii, 404 pp., 12 photo plates. A fine copy. From ambitious scientists rising above the clouds to test the air, brave generals floating over enemy lines to watch troop movements, this wonderful book offers a seamless fusion of history, art, science, biography, and the metaphysics..... More
London: Pantheon, 2013. Octavo, xii, 404 pp., illustrated, 12 photo plates. A fine copy with dust jacket. From ambitious scientists rising above the clouds to test the air, brave generals floating over enemy lines to watch troop movements, this wonderful book offers a seamless fusion of history, art, science, biography..... More
London: William Collins, 2013. Octavo, printed wrappers, xii, 404 pp., illustrated, 12 photo plates. A fine copy. From ambitious scientists rising above the clouds to test the air, brave generals floating over enemy lines to watch troop movements, this wonderful book offers a seamless fusion of history, art, science, biography..... More
London: Collins, 1982. Octavo, red cloth with gilt spine lettering, xvii, 350 pp., illustrated. Scattered foxing, otherwise an attractive copy. First edition. Some of the book's passengers are Freya Stark and Evelyn Waugh travelling to Paris; Prince Philip and Basil Boothroyd bound for Mexico and William Golding flying across America..... More
Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co, 1898. Small octavo, original gilt-decorated blue cloth, viii, 306 pp., plates. Internal hinges split and tender, joints and backstrip rubbed, yet a good and attractive copy overall. Salomon August Andree was a Swedish engineer, physicist, aeronaut, and polar explorer who died while attempting to reach..... More
Leipzig: Teubner, 1911. Octavo, original cloth with black lettering and pictorial onlay; x, 224 pp., publisher's advertisements bound in, diagrams throughout. An attractive near-fine copy with slight wear to extremities. A detailed and informative handbook on zeppelin design and theory. The first edition, also published by Teubner, appeared in 1909..... More
Buenos Aires: Privately Published, 2003. Octavo, paperback, 78 pp., illustrated. A fine copy. Este es el relato histórico de tres hitos de la aeronáutica latinoamericana realizados con la presencia de Angel María Zuloaga en los que concretó sendos viajes en aeróstato, el cruce de los Andes y a Porto Alegre..... More