History of Aeronautics. A selected list of references to material in the New York Public Library
by Gamble, W.B
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Top edge duststained, otherwise Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0405017472
- ISBN 13
- 9780405017476
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About This Item
Arno Press Inc., New York, 1971 reprint of the 1938 first edition. Cloth, 8vo,. 325 pp. 5574 entries in double column format. Excellent annotated list of books and articles in many languages, arranged in classified order with analytical indexes of authors and subjects. Subjects covered include balloons and airships, aeroplanes, seaplanes, gliders and gliding, parachutes, helicopters and autogiros, kites, engines and propellors, military and civil aeronautics, air mail, polar expeditions, associations and conferences, jurisprudence, photography and surveying, animal flight, and women in aeronautics. First published in the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Jan. 1936-Sept. 1937. Top edge duststained, otherwise Very Good.
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- Title
- History of Aeronautics. A selected list of references to material in the New York Public Library
- Author
- Gamble, W.B
- Format/Binding
- Cloth, 8vo,
- Book Condition
- Used - Top edge duststained, otherwise Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0405017472
- ISBN 13
- 9780405017476
- Publisher
- Arno Press Inc., New York, 1971 reprint of the 1938 first edition
- Date Published
- 1971 reprint of the 1938 first
- Pages
- 325 pp
- Keywords
- early aeronautics aviation ballooning balloons aeroplane flight transport war science technology engineering history balloons and airships, aeroplanes, seaplanes, gliders and gliding, parachutes, helicopters and autogiros, kites, engines and propellors, m
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- Aviation (Bibliographies);
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