‎Aviation ‎

‎(AVIATION: PANORAMA PHOTOGRAPH)‎

‎Flying School Detachment Souther Field Ga. Composed of Squadrons A B C and D.‎

‎Jacksonville FL: John A. Coles Jr. 1919. Original panorama photograph of all the members of the four squadrons in front of a modified Curtiss J4. It measures 47 3/4 inches x 8 inches. Archivally matted. Excellent.Souther Field is the oldest continuously operating civilian airport in the United States that participated through military use on both World Wars. During WWI 500 cadets earned their wings here arriving 25 at a time and training for a period of two months. In 2009 it was renamed the Jimmy Carter Regional Airport. Perhaps the most famous aspect of this airport was its relation to hero aviator Charles Lindbergh. In April 1923 Charles Lindbergh arrived at South Field and purchased his first plane for $500 although he was not yet a pilot. His connection to aviation prior to this was that he was a "wing-walker" and a parachutist in an aerial circus. He bunked at the airport until his plane was finished after which he took his first solo flight and developed his piloting skills from flights out of Souther Field. After becoming proficient he departed for a life of barnstorming. Four years later in 1927 he became the first person to make a non-stop transatlantic flight cementing his status n the annal of aviation. John A. Coles, Jr. unknown‎

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‎(AVIATION: PANORAMA PHOTOGRAPH)‎

‎Maneuver Camp Ft. Sam Houston San Antonio Texas.‎

‎San Antonio: H. Rudolph Fox Photographer 1911. Original photograph measuring 48 x 7 1/2 inches. Large panoramic photo depicting the March 1911 United States Army maneuvers which featured 20000 troops with early US military aircraft such as the Wright Model B biplane as well as two others by Robert McCormick and Ben Johnson a San Antonio inventor flying above the camp. . captions scratched into negative at lower margin minor restoration to small portion at the very lower far right fore-edge minor creasing still a a wonderfully clean and clear image.This exceedingly scarce original panoramic photograph features the United States Army maneuvers in March 1911 and was one of the earliest such camps to coordinate with US Army fliers. Within the image the YMCA tent is identified as well as the placement of the field hospital field artillery the Signal Corps as well as the Depot Commissary in the foreground. Above three different biplanes are shown flying maneuvers including the Wright Model B flown by Lt. Benjamin D. Foulois who along with Phil Parmalee flew the first military reconnaissance scouting missions in a fixed-wing aircraft along the US-Mexico border; as well as planes flown by Robert McCormic an early Chicago aviator and inventor who would later construct and house several experimental aircraft at Fort Sam Houston as well as Ben Johnson a San Antonio inventor who flew a Johnson Wright Model B airplane. The Wright Model B was the Wright brothers’ most successful aircraft produced from 1910 to 1914 and they were shipping nearly 4 aircraft a month. Unfortunately the rear elevator made the Model B more tail heavy and prone to stall and within two years faster propeller first aircraft with drag-reducing fuselages began appearing. Fort Sam Houston was a very popular experimental airfield for flying meets air races because it occupied 800 acres annd the field was unbroken by no hills of real prominence. Established in 1890 as a post the War Department began expanding the Fort after the Spanish-American War adding Cavalry and Light Artillery from 1905-1912 and also served as the birth of military aviation. Lt. Foulois had made his first solo flight the year before in March 1910. See: Edmond Percy Noel America Now Has Forty Flying Fields San Antonio Tex. Aero and Hydro 1912 Vol. 4 pp. 59 66; McFarland The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright 1953 p. 1183. H. Rudolph, Fox Photographer unknown‎

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‎(AVIATION: WWI)‎

‎The Aircraft Year Book; 1919.‎

‎New York: Manufacturers Aircraft Association 1919. First edition. Octavo. 398 pp. Profusely illustrated with photographic illustrations on nearly every page and 3 folding color maps of the current air routes World Europe United States. Publisher's blue cloth with blue lettering. Binding somewhat soiled extremities worn old bookplate of a lending library but a very good and clean copy sturdily bound.The publisher did a excellent job on the this the first issue of yearly publication that would continue all the way to 1959. In addition to an article by Orville Wright there are histories of all the major American aircraft makers of the time: Aeromarine Plane and Motor Corporation Burgess Company Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation St. Louis Aircraft Corporation Dayton Wright Airplane Company Engel Aircraft Company Glenn L. Martin Company L-W-F Engineering Company Standard Aircraft Corporation Standard Aero Corporation of N.Y. Springfield Aircraft Corporation Sturtevant Aeroplane Corporation Thomas-Moore Aircraft Corporation Wright-Martin Aircraft Corporation. There are also chapters on the flying aces of America France England Germany and Italy. Manufacturers Aircraft Association hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74513

‎(AVIATION: WWI) MATTHEWS, R Borlase‎

‎The Aviation Pocket-Book for 1918.‎

‎Londoon: Crosby Lockwood and Son 1918. Sixth edition. Twelvemo. cxxviii ads for aviation related items 362 pp. plus some foldout diagrams. Publisher's brown cloth with ads as endpapers. Very good. Crosby Lockwood and Son hardcover‎

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‎(AVIATION: WINGS CLUB)‎

‎Three Titles Published by This Organization.‎

‎New York : Wings Club 1964-65-68. SIKORSKI Igor I. Recollections and Thoughts of a Pioneer. First edition. Octavo. 38 pp. including numerous full page photographic illustrations.HUNSAKER Jerome C. Some Lessons of History. First edition. ix 29 1 pp. including numerous photographic illustrations.VON BRAUN Werner Space Flight; Past Present and Future. First edition. Octavo. iv 2 27 1 pp. including numerous photographic illustrations.All three are bound in publisher's blue cloth with silver spine and cover lettering and silver stamped icon of the Wings Club blue endpapers. The Sikorski volume has a previous owner's name on dark blue endpapers hard to see else a very good set.The Wings Club was founded in New York City on May 15 1942. It was housed within the Yale Club and served World War II pilots as a place of leisure and occasional living quarters. The first board of directors included Juan Trippe the founder of Pan American World Airways and World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker. The first president was Caleb Bragg a racer of automobiles and speedboats aviation pioneer and automotive inventor. Bragg had previously been a governor of the Aero Club of America. He was made president of the Wings Club despite suffering from a longterm illness which led to his death later the next year. Also in 1964 founding club member former club president and retired USAF General Harold Ross Harris implemented the annual "Sight Lecture" series at which a leading aviation notable was to be invited to deliver a lecture adhering generally to "insights foresights and hindsights" of aviation. Each lecture was to be published in book form by the Wings Club. Offered here are the First Second and Fifth Sight Lectures. Wings Club hardcover‎

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‎(Collectif)‎

‎AVIONS AMERICAINS‎

‎Une plaquette de 20 pages, format 240 x 150 mm, illustrée, brochée, publiée en 1946, France Editions, bon état‎

‎Fascicule 2 : photographies, plans, caractéristiques‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : LFA-126742062

‎(Collectif)‎

‎AVIONS ANGLAIS‎

‎Une plaquette de 20 pages, format 240 x 150 mm, illustrée, brochée, publiée en 1945, France Editions, bon état‎

‎Fascicule 1 : photographies, fiches techniques‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : LFA-126742061

‎(Collectif)‎

‎FRANCE ILLUSTRATION‎

‎N° 185 - 30 avril 1949 - Une revue de 32 pages, format 380 x 280 mm, nombreuses illustrations‎

‎Au sommaire : salon de l'aviation‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : LFA00857

‎(Collectif)‎

‎Frères d'armes : histoire officielle des aviations des pays occupés, The Whitefriars Press Limited - Londres, 1944, préparé pour le ministère de l'air par le Ministère de l'information‎

‎17,5 cm X 23 cm, 36 pp, couverture souple et illustrée. Agrafé, nombreuses photographies N&B‎

‎Bords frottés, plats salis, trace de pliure sur le coin inférieur. Nom de l'ancien propriétaire au stylo sur le premier plat. Bon état par ailleurs intérieur frais.‎

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‎(Collectif)‎

‎Le GRAND LIVRE des PIONNIERS du CIEL‎

‎Un ouvrage de 169 pages, format 235 x 300 mm, illustré, relié cartonnage couleurs, publié en 1998, Editions Atlas, bon état‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : LFA-126732615

‎(Collectif).‎

‎SAINT EXUPERY. cinquième époque 1941-1943. Saint-Exupéry au U.S.A., "Pilote de Guerre", "Lettre à un Otage", "le Petit Prince".‎

‎Paris, Icare, revue de l'aviation française, N° 84, 1978. Broché, couverture illustrée.par Philippe Mitschké. in-4 de 32-158 pages, illustrations d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Paul-Emile Victor, etc.., photos de Morris Saxe, Musée Air France, Les Expéditions Polaires Françaises, etc..., Carte en double page, facs-similés (dessins, manuscrits, etc..).‎

‎[...] Nous nous sommes donné rendez-vous à Alger, à Londres ou à New York, par Paul-Emile Victor. - Il parlait toute la nuit, par Jean Renoir. - Les livres qu'il a aimé, par Edmond Petit. - Préface à Helen Mackay, par Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. - Le pilote et les puissances naturelles, par Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. - Lettre au docteur Belt, par Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. - Sous le signe des contes de fées, par Annabella. - Lettre à Curtice Hitchcock, par Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. - Relation auteur-éditeur, par Peggy Hitchcock. - Le noctambule de Manhattan, par Bernard Lamotte. - Il fallait vivre, par Henri Claudel. - lettre à Silvia Hamilton, par Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. - Message aux jeunes américains, par Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. - La liberté d'écrire par Jean Monnet. - Lettre ouverte aux français, par Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. - Réponse à Jacques Maritain, par Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. - Editions clandestines, par Fernand Rude. - Les livres, par Edmond Petit. Etc...‎

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‎(Dwiggins, WA). Bordeaux, Henry W A‎

‎GEORGES GUYNEMER: KNIGHT OF THE AIR. Translated from the French by Louise Morgan Sill. With an Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt.‎

‎New Haven: Yale University Press 1918. 1918. Good. - Octavo pictorial teal boards titled in gilt and illustrated in blue on the front cover & the spine. A small three-paneled paper label is mounted between the title and the author's name on the spine. The covers are slightly rubbed and soiled. 256 pages illustrated with a color frontispiece portrait by Rudolph Ruzicka and 4 black & white plates by W.A. Dwiggins. Good. <p>First American edition. From the library of the World War One naval aviator Charles Frederic Beach signed by him on the front endpaper.<p>Laid in at the front is a typed form letter signed by the founder of the Yale University Press George Parmly Day presenting the book to a classmate of Ensign Curtis Seaman Read in his memory. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1918. hardcover‎

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‎(EARLY AVIATION; PERIODICAL)‎

‎Flight. Vol. III No. 27.‎

‎London: Royal Aero Club of the United Kingsom 1911. Quarto. 2 ads 581-602 2 ads pp. Numerous photographic illustrations and ads Publisher's printed mauve wrappers. Bit of spine rubbing but clean and tight.The main article in this issue is about the race for the Gordon-Bennet Cup at Eastchurch. The Gordon Bennett Aviation Trophy was an international airplane racing trophy awarded by James Gordon Bennett Jr. the American owner and publisher of the New York Herald newspaper. Curtiss won the first Cup Claude Graham-White the second and as we learn from the issue C. T. Weyman won the third cup 1911. Weyman was an American and flew a Nieuport aeroplane. Eleven pages are devoted to a detailed account of the race. Royal Aero Club of the United Kingsom unknown‎

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‎(EARLY AVIATION) MORRISS, Bud‎

‎Original Photograph and Stickpin.‎

‎Chicago and Grand Rapids: Bud Morriss Airplane School 1916. Original photograph of "Bud" Morriss and his chief engineer Tony Stadlman at the controls of his flying boat. Photograph measures 3 x 2 1/2 inches. It is in the original frame and with the original label on the verso which reads; "This is an authentic photograph taken in Grand Rapids 1915 of P. G. B. Bud Morris at the controls of his Benoist Flying Boat accompanied by his Chief mechanician Tony Stadlman who later became Superintendent of the Lockheed Airplane Company of Burbank." Together with an original stickpin for the school in brass and blue and with an image of a biplane. It reads "Bud Morriss Airplane School Chicago 1916." The original celluloid covering the photograph is still present. Rare mementos of an early and influential aviator and his aviation school.Percival George Brockhurst Morriss 1884-1944 a native of England learned to fly at Brooklands racetrack in 1909. Soon after that he came to the United States. A former assistant engineer in the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company he championed the use of wireless to communicate with airplanes in flight. Later the same year he learned to fly a Bleriot in England and then joined the Curzon aviators. In 1914 he operated a flying boat service on the Chicago lake front and in the same year was managing editor of Aero & Hydro an aviation weekly paper. In 1915 he opened the Bud Morriss Flying School in Chicago. His next venture was with the Benoist Aeroplane Co. of St. Louis serving successively as assistant pilot and instructor Chief instructor and finally as vice-president and sales engineer. In 1917 he served as a member of the Chicago Aero Commission. During the First World War he enlisted as a seaman in the Navy in which he served for 18 months. Upon discharge Morriss was executive officer of aviation schools at a naval air station. Anthony Stadlman was in 1886 in Bohemia. He emigrated to the United States from his home in what was then Czechoslovakia in 1906 ispired by news of the aviation work of Orville and Wilbur Wright. By 1910 he was helping to build flying machines at the Chicago School of Aviation. For a short while he was chief engineer at the Bud Morris Aviation School. The Lockheed Aircraft Corporation originally called the Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company was organized in the summer of 1916 by brothers Allan and Malcolm Loughead. Their plant was located in the rear of a garage on State Street in Santa Barbara. Tony Stadlman met Allan Loughead on a Chicago airfield and became superintendent of manufacturing when the company changed its name to Lockheed in 1927. Bud Morriss Airplane School unknown‎

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‎(EARLY AVIATION: TRADE CATALOG)‎

‎Wire of Quality: Referring Particularly to that Used in Aerial Navigation.‎

‎Trenton NJ: John A. Roebling's Sons Company. First edition. Small octavo. 24 pp. with a plethora of photographic illustrations. Publisher's sewn blue printed wrappers with a window in the front cover to display a biplane aloft. Small marginal tear not afecting any text. A very good copy. None located by OCLC. The Roebling's history in Trenton dates to 1848 when John A. Roebling purchased 25 acres of land in Chambersburg Best known today as the "father of the Brooklyn Bridge" Roebling and the company he founded supplied cables from Trenton to most of the major suspension bridges built in United States during the first half of the 20th century. Among the dozens of major bridges using Trenton-made cable are New York City's Williamsburg Manhattan and George Washington Bridges as well as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.Roebling Lofts converted the "Clark Street Rope Shop" Building 101 erected in 1917 during WW I. It was an ultra-modern facility for its time with massive windows and a fire resistant design. It replaced an older factory that burned down in late 1915 allegedly by German saboteurs. Building 101 specialized in light- and medium-gauge wire rope such as used in aircraft. Perhaps the factory's most famous customer was Charles Lindbergh who specified Roebling wire for The Spirit of St. Louis the plane he flew non-stop from New York to Paris in 1927. This has been called the single most influential flight in aviation history excepting the 1903 first-flight by the Wright Brothers who also used Roebling cables for bracing wings. Lindbergh used Roebling products for control cables to brace the wings for the ignition harness and the plane's lightning rod. The testing lab for the aircraft business was located on the 4th floor of the Clark Street factory including a massive machine designed to simulate stresses on wings. The machine survives in place on the 4th floor and is being preserved in a lounge for use by residents of Roebling Lofts. John A. Roebling's Sons Company unknown‎

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‎(FAR Gallery).‎

‎BALLOONING: A LOT OF 4 BRIGHT HAND-COLORED LITHOGRAPHS DEPICTING NINETEENTH CENTURY BALLOONING: "DESCENT NEAR PHILADELPHIA PHIL. 1850"; "THE VAUXHALL BALLOON PHIL. 1850"; "DESCENT NEAR EASTON PENNSYLVANIA"; AND 'MR. COCKING'S PARACHUTE PHIL. 1850".‎

‎New York: FAR Gallery 1949. 1949. Fine. - sc 4 fine bright hand-colored lithographs depicting events in the history and birth of flight. Each of these beautiful prints is lithographed on 8 inch high by 5-1/2 inch wide cardstock. There is a little minor smudging at the bottom of the lithograph depicting "The Vauxhall Balloon" else the prints are in fine condition. <p>The images respectively depict:<p>The "Descent near Philadelphia Phil. 1850" of a single pink balloon topped with a red & yellow floral accent and horizontal red stripe. A yellow and blue flag and the American flag fly from either side of the yellow gondola wich carries a single person.<p>"The Vauxhall Balloon Phil. 1850" depicts a single red & yellow striped balloon. Two flags fly from the sides of the purple ribboned gondola carrying 6 people.<p>The "Descent Near Easton Pennsylvania" depicts a shredded dark & light blue balloon. The basket gondola carries a single man who holds out his top hat. American flags fly from both sides of the gondola.<p>"Mr. Cocking's Parachute Phil. 1850" depicts the Nasau balloon with Cocking's parachute attached at the bottom. A watercolorist and amateur scientist Robert Cocking designed his parachute based on that of Garnerin's. The blue & yellow striped balloon which ascended from London's Vauxhall Gardens in 1837 carries 2 passengers in its gondola. The yellow red and blue inverted cone parachute attached under the balloon's gondola carried Cocking aloft in its own basket gondola. Cocking's experiment ended in tragedy. Releasing his parachute at a height of 5000 feet it failed due to a mechanical error and Cocking plummeted to his death.<p>A rare group of prints examples of which are housed at the National Air and Space Museum. New York: FAR Gallery, 1949. unknown‎

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‎(Guynemer, Georges). Bordeaux, Henry‎

‎LE CHEVALIER DE L'AIR: VIE HEROIQUE DE GUYNEMER. Par Henry Bordeaux.‎

‎Paris: Plon-Nourrit et Cie. 1918. 1918. Good. - Octavo softcover bound in printed white wraps with pictorial decorations in light green and titled in gilt & green on the front cover & spine. The book is housed in a marbled folding tray case backed with a blue morocco spine with gilt lettering. The covers are slightly foxed with minor chips to the edges and to the head and tail of the spine. The corners of the case are slightly rubbed. 320 pages illustrated with a portrait frontispiece. The pages are darkened. There is a previous owner's name on the title page. Good in a handsome case. <p>The 17th thousand published the same year as the first edition. Paris: Plon-Nourrit et Cie., 1918. paperback‎

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‎(ICARE, REVUE DE L'AVIATION FRANCAISE).‎

‎1783-1983. LE SALON. LES MONTGOLFIER. CHARLES DOLLFUS.‎

‎ORLY. ICARE. 1983. IN-4 BROCHE (24 X 32 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE 136 PAGES, COUVERTURE ILLUSTREE EN COULEURS, CORRESPONDANT AU NUMERO 105, 1983/2, DE LA REVUE. BON ETAT.‎

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‎(ICARE, REVUE DE L'AVIATION FRANCAISE).‎

‎LA NAISSANCE DES LIGNES AFRICAINES.‎

‎ORLY. ICARE. 1973. IN-4 BROCHE (24 X 32 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE 136 PAGES, COUVERTURE ILLUSTREE EN COULEURS, CORRESPONDANT AU NUMERO 66, AUTOMNE-HIVER 1973, DE LA REVUE. BEL ETAT.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1711

‎(ICARE, REVUE DE L'AVIATION FRANCAISE).‎

‎LES FRERES WRIGHT.‎

‎PANTIN. ICARE. 1993. IN-4 BROCHE (24 X 32 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE 154 PAGES, COUVERTURE ILLUSTREE EN COULEURS, CORRESPONDANT AU NUMERO 147, 1993/4, DE LA REVUE. BON ETAT.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1721

‎(ICARE, REVUE DE L'AVIATION FRANCAISE).‎

‎LES LAM. 1941-1944. LES LIGNES AERIENNES MILITAIRES. LIONEL DE MARMIER.‎

‎ORLY. ICARE. 1982. IN-4 BROCHE (24 X 32 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE 140 PAGES, COUVERTURE ILLUSTREE EN COULEURS, CORRESPONDANT AU NUMERO 102, 1982/3, DE LA REVUE. BON ETAT.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1715

‎(ICARE, REVUE DE L'AVIATION FRANCAISE).‎

‎SALON 1971. ADRIENNE BOLLAND. COSTES ET BELLONTE. MAX HYMANS.‎

‎ORLY. ICARE. 1971. IN-4 BROCHE (24 X 32 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE 164 PAGES, COUVERTURE ILLUSTREE EN COULEURS, CORRESPONDANT AU NUMERO 58, ETE 1971, DE LA REVUE. BEL ETAT.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1709

‎(ICARE, REVUE DE L'AVIATION FRANCAISE).‎

‎SALON 1979. BLERIOT.‎

‎ORLY. ICARE. 1979. IN-4 BROCHE (24 X 32 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE 128 PAGES, COUVERTURE ILLUSTREE EN COULEURS, CORRESPONDANT AU NUMERO 89, ETE 1979, DE LA REVUE. BON ETAT.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1714

‎(ICARE. REVUE DE L'AVIATION FRANCAISE).‎

‎LA POSTE AERIENNE FRANCAISE.‎

‎PANTIN. ICARE. 2000-2001. 3 VOLUMES IN-4 BROCHES (24 X 32 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON), COUVERTURE ILLUSTREE EN COULEURS, CORRESPONDANT AUX NUMEROS 173, 177 ET 179 DE LA REVUE. TRES BEL ETAT.‎

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‎(SAINT-EXUPERY, ANTOINE. 1900-1944).‎

‎SAINT-EXUPERY OU LA SAGESSE DES SABLES. 18 NOVEMBRE-18 DECEMBRE 1986. TOULOUSE... ACADEMIE DE L'AIR ET DE L'ESPACE.‎

‎BALMA-TOULOUSE. IMPRIMERIE DOULADOURE. SANS DATE (1986). GRANDE AFFICHE EN COULEURS (96 X 68,5 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON). BON ETAT.‎

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