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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    

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    

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    

Chard Corporation  JOHN STRINGFELLOW, 1799-1883 -  Centenary of invention of the first engine driven aeroplane.

£5.00
BN: 24053

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.

   
Pre-1903 history of flying machines and attrmpts to fly them. £7.50  
BN: 28531    

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  

Principles of flight and a record of the first "aeroplane fights" of WW 1. A nice, well-illustrated picture of the time.

   
BN: 31753    

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

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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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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