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Berriman, Algernon E. PRINCIPLES OF FLIGHT - "Flight" offices 2nd, 1911; card covers, 18 x 13cm, 112pp, many figs (inc line drgs of aircraft); vg int, spine paper ragged & f. cover sl torn. |
£18.00 | |
| Introduction to the basic laws of flight with chapters on history, balloons & kites, helicopters etc.By the author of the larger work "Aviation". | ||
| BN: 26829 | ||
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Borelli, Giovanni A. THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS - Aeronautical Classics No 6 Aeronautical Society of G.B. 1911; card covers, 18 x 12cm, 40pp; 11 figs; good-vg. (see also Walker) |
£20.00 | |
| BN: 31757 | ||
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Brewer, Griffith THE LIFE AND WORK OF WILBUR WRIGHT - 4th Wright Memorial Lecture, 1916. Aeronautical Society of GB Journal Jly-Sept 1916 good-vg (spine ragged & f. cover marked) |
£5.00 | |
| The entire issue was devoted to Wright subjects, the Memorial lecture being followed by extracts from previous journals re the Wrights, dated Jan 1906, April 1906, , Jly 1906& Jly 1912. | ||
| BN: 31758 | ||
| Broke-Smith, Brig. P.W.L. THE HISTORY OF EARLY BRITISH MILITARY AERONAUTICS - | £12.50 | |
| Paper reprinted from the Royal Engineer's Journal of March, June & Sept 1952 ,covering the period prior to the formation of the RFC in 1912; original soft-cover edn; nr fine. | ||
| BN: 21889 | ||
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Chard Corporation JOHN STRINGFELLOW, 1799-1883 - Centenary of invention of the first engine driven aeroplane. |
£5.00 | |
| BN: 24053 | ||
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Crouch, Tom D. A DREAM OF WINGS - Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905. Norton 1paperback version, 2002, of 1981 1st; 349pp, photos in text, notes & biblio; vg. |
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| Pre-1903 history of flying machines and attrmpts to fly them. | £7.50 | |
| BN: 28531 | ||
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Dommett W.E. AEROPLANES AND AIRSHIPS - Whittaker, London, 1915 1st, card covers, 18 x 12cm, 106pp, 12 plates, 26 figs, picture cover; vg. |
£18.00 | |
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Principles of flight and a record of the first "aeroplane fights" of WW 1. A nice, well-illustrated picture of the time. |
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| BN: 31753 | ||
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Gibbs-Smith C.H. LEONARDO DA VINCI'S AERONAUTICS - HMSO (Science Museum), 1967; 40pp, 29 figs; near fine. |
£5.50 | |
| BN: 21432 | ||
| Gibbs-Smith C.H. THE WORLD'S FIRST AEROPLANE FLIGHTS, (1903-1908) - and earlier attempts to fly | £5.00 | |
| HMSO (Science Museum) 5th Imp 1977 (with amendments) from 1st of 1965; 8vo, 32pp, 23 photos; fine. | ||
| BN: 22004 | ||
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Goodall, M.H. FLYING START - Flying Schools & Clubs at Brooklands 1910-1939. |
£6.50 | |
| Brooklands Museum 1995; card covers, 20 x 20cm, 88pp, f.illus; fine. | ||
| BN: 30941 | ||
| Grimmer A.E. MEMORIES OF EARLY FLYING DAYS - | £4.00 | |
| The Shuttleworth Collection, nd; 8pp, 4 photos; vg.Grimmer donated the Bleriot & Deperdussin aircraft which were the first given to the Shuttleworth Collection. Book describes his early attempts to fly. | ||
| BN: 24075 | ||
| Jarrett, Philip DAGENHAM DAYS - A history of the Aeronautical Society's Flying Ground. | £2.50 | |
| Reprinted from R.Ae.S. Feb 1970; 10pp, photos, vg. | ||
| BN: 23662 | ||
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MacGregor-Hastie, Roy FLYING MACHINES - he picture story of the men, women & machines which first conquered space Four Square 1st, 1965; 19 x 14cms, card covers, 127pp, photos, diags;good-vg. |
£3.50 | |
| BN: 24510 | ||
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Maggs Bros AEROSTATION - Catalogue No 685 - books & engravings illustrating the evolution of the Airship & the Aeroplane. Maggs Bros, 1940; card covers, 20 x 17cm, 115pp, vg. |
£16.00 | |
| Covers items from 1638 to 1938. | ||
| BN: 31755 | ||
| Maxim, Paul TAKING FLIGHT - the Fisher Monoplane & early aviation in the Wellington region. | £12.00 | |
| Wairarapa (NZ) 1st, 2003; card covers, 24 x 17cm, 76pp, f.illus; fine.Good picture of pioniering in New Zealand pre-WW 1. | ||
| BN: 30303 | ||
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Newcomen Society NOTE-BOOK (ca 1799-1826) of SIR GEORGE CAYLEY - with an appendix comprising a list of the Cayley Papers. Cambridge, 1933; card covers, 22 x 17cm, 93pp; sketches; bd'g weak, f. cover marked with untidy titling, o/w clean & complete. |
£15.00 | |
| Brief history of Cayley and the note book of illustrated ideas addressed "to whom it may concern when I am gone, may find the seeds of thought in these scrawls" | ||
| BN: 31754 | ||
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Ord-Hume, Arthur W.J.G. THE ORD-HUME ARCHIVE - Eerly French Aviation .GMS Enterprises, 2005; card covers, 28pp, pictorial; fine. |
£4.50 | |
| A selection of photos from period publications of the period. | ||
| BN: 31061 | ||
| Ritter, Dr Wolfgang THE FLYING APPARATUS OF THE BLOW-FLY - a contribution to the morphology & physiology of the organs of flight in insects | £15.00 | |
| Smithsonian Inst. 1911; soft covers, 77pp, f.illus; vg.Detailed technical study of the flight mechanism of the fly. | ||
| BN: 28957 | ||
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School of Ballooning, Aldershot MANUAL OF MILITARY BALLOONING - |
12.00 | |
| Reprint by Rediscovery Books, 2006 from the 1896 original; card covers, 121pp, diags, tables etc; new Good facsimile of rare original. | ||
| BN: 31219 | ||
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Walker, Thomas THE ART OF FLYING - Aeronautical Society of G.B. "AERONAUTICAL CLASSICS No 3" 1910; card covers, 18 x 12cm, 40pp, figs in text; good (sl marked, owner's plate etc. |
£16.00 | |
| One of the set of 6 "aeronautical classics" booklets. (see also Borelli) | ||
| BN: 31756 | ||
| Wescott, Lynanne & Paula Degen WIND AND SAND - the story of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk. Eastern Acorn Press (USA) 1983; card covers, 29 x 20cm, 189pp, f.illus (near-pictorial); near fine. | £15.00 | |
| BN; 28544 |
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