Book Description

The full title is : Airships past and Present Together with Chapters on the Use of Balloons in Connection with Meteorology, Photography and the Carrier Pigeon. A Hildebrandt was Captain & Instructor in the Prussian Balloon Corps. As indicated by the 'Contents' page the author has given a comprehensive coverage to this subject, and has included many unusual & interesting illustrations.
Author A Hildebrandt
Date 1908 (First English Edition)
Binding Blue cloth over boards with gilt titles to spine & front cover + gilt motif of an airship on front cover.
Publisher Archibald Constable (translated from the German by W H Story)
Illustrator Numerous black/white photographs, diagrams, plans & tables
Condition G/VG (Slight bumping to lower front corner ; small patch of rubbed cloth, 1cm, to outer edge of back cover). A visually attractive book protected in a plastic sleeve.
Pages 364

Price: £68.00

Offered by Geoff Cox Books

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