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| Abbott, Patrick AIRSHIP - the story of R 34 & the first East-West crossing of the Atlantic by Air: | £16.00 |
| Adams & Dart 1st, 1973; ; 24x17cm, 163pp, f.illus, biblio; fine inc d/w.Also - card cover edn, 1994; fine - £8.50 | |
| BN: 22224 | |
| Alexander, John THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR - The Romance of Aerial Navigation. | £20.00 |
| Partridge, 1902; 19 x 13cm, 160pp, 2 photos, drgs in text, picture f.cover & spine; vg except f.cover sl loose, cloth sl soiled & pages sl browned.Theory & practice of ballooning, with short chapters on parachutes & airships. | |
| BN: 24842 | |
| Althoff, William F. SKY SHIPS - a history of the airship in the U.S.Navy. | £20.00 |
| Orion Books 1st, 1990; 28 x 22cm, 304pp, f.illus; notes & biblio; fine, near fine d/w. | |
| BN: 28728 | |
| Andree S.A., Nils Strindberg & Knut Fraenkel THE ANDREE DIARIES - | £28.00 |
| Lane 1st UK edn, 1931, trans from Swedish; 452pp, 103 photos,6 maps, plans & diags; vg (spinecloth sl faded).The diaries & records of the authors, written during their balloon expedition to the North Pole in 1897 and discovered on White Island in 1930 together with a complete record of the expedition & discovery. | |
| BN: 23682 | |
| Andree, Strindberg & Fraenkel ANDREE'S STORY - the complete record of his polar flight, 1897. | £22.00 |
| Viking Press, New York, 1930; 389pp, 56 photos,8 maps; vg int, spinecloth v faded.Essentially the same record as in "The Andree Diaries". | |
| BN: 26911 | |
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Bacon, Rev John M. BY LAND AND SKY - Isbister (London) 1st, 1900; 275pp, 4 photos; ex R.Artillery lib with their 1902 stamps & nice bookplate; some staining to few pages; f board sl loose; o/w good-vg. |
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| Celebrated balloonist describes his experiments and experiences with special reference to sonic, meteorological & wireless telegraphy aspects of flight. | £35.00 |
| BN: 25324 | |
| Bacon, Rev J.M. THE DOMINION OF THE AIR - The story of aerial navigation. | £40.00 |
| Cassell 1st, 1902; 348pp, 24 illus, Cassell book list; vg (f.cover sl loose).Account of the invention of the balloon, descriptions of (mainly English) flights, possibilities of flying machines & balloons in warfare. | |
| BN: 25356 | |
| Bacon,Gertrude THE RECORD OF AN AERONAUT - being the life of John M.Bacon. | £40.00 |
| Long 1st, 1907; 358pp, 59 photos; vg except sl foxing to page edges & cloth sl stained at front.Ballooning, inc description of the first ground to air wireless experiments of 1899 & the petrol burner balloon of 1903. | |
| BN: 25355 | |
| Botting, Douglas SHADOW IN THE CLOUDS - The story of Airships: | £7.50 |
| Kestrel books "Explorer series No16", 1975; 48pp, fully illus (photos, painting reproductions, some colour); fine inc d/w.Rather elementary pictorial review. | |
| BN: 22226 | |
| Brooks, Peter W. HISTORIC AIRSHIPS - | £20.00 |
| Evelyn, 1973; 34 x 24cm, 57pp, photos & diags plus 16 full-page col plates,lists, biblio; vg, good d/w.Includes useful "family tree" of airship design derivation and attractive col plates; covers the Zeppelins & early British, French & American rigids, WW 1 & after. | |
| BN: 22096 | |
| Burney, Cdr Sir Charles Dennistoun THE WORLD, THE AIR AND THE FUTURE - | £35.00 |
| A & U 1st, c1929; 356pp, 31 photos, 2 maps; vg.Important contribution to the discussion, at this time, about the advantages of airships v aeroplanes in civil aviation; also a review of the current situation in aviation dev't. (The author was greatly involved in the design & construction of the R 100 airship, so presents the case for the aorship). | |
| BN: 26935 | |
| Chamberlain, Geoffrey AIRSHIPS - CARDINGTON - a history of Cardington airship station. | £17.50 |
| Terence Dalton 1st, 1984; 23 x 19cm, 223pp, f.illus (photos & diags); data appendices; fine inc d/w.Includes chapters on other airship developments (Zeppelins etc) and a graphic account of the R101 disaster. | |
| BN: 25962 | |
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Collier, Basil THE AIRSHIP - a history. Hart-Davies 1st, 1974; 25 x 18cm, 271pp, f. illus (photos, diags); notes & biblio; fine inc d/w |
£24.00 |
| BN: 27342 | |
| Cook,Hartley Kemball THE BIRTH OF FLIGHT - an anthology: | £12.00 |
| A & U 1st, 1941; 19 x 13 cm, 204pp, 8 illus; vg, fair d/w.A good collection of extracts on ballooning from books, magazines, letters etc. | |
| BN: 22111 | |
| Cottrell, Leonard UP IN A BALLOON - | £15.00 |
| World's Work, 1969; 200pp, 28 illus (photos & reprods of old woodcuts), 1 map; nr fine, vg d/w.Covers mainly the early flights, up to the Andree expedition of 1897. | |
| BN: 28569 | |
| Coxwell, Henry MY LIFE AND BALLOON EXPERIENCES - | £75.00 |
| W.H.Allen 1st, 1887; 19 x 13cm, 228pp, tipped-in frontis portrait photo; vg int, cloth rather damp-stained.First volume of the pair published. Excellent picture of the period and of Coxwell's achievements. | |
| BN: 30440 |