AIRSHIPS PAST AND PRESENT (First English Edition)
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
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