Aviation

Weltevredenpark, South Africa: Covos-Day Books, 2001. Ilustrated boards with minor ding to bottom of front board. 1002 pages with b/w illustrations. A comprehensive record of military aviation in Rhodesia. Heavy book (over 3Kg). . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1976. First edition. Hard cover. Published Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1976. Folio, 10 3/4" x 14 1/2", ix+459pp., illustrated with 400 color plates, maps, map endpapers. Pictorial cloth with black titles. Minor bump to top tip of front cover. A fine copy. . 1st. Hard. Fine/No Jacket. Folio.

#Paris, Le Boucher, 1784.. Pour servir de Supplement a son Dictionnaire raisonne de Physique. Contenant: L'idée d'un Aérostat; Rapport fait à l'Académie des Sciences sur la MACHINE AEROSTATIQUE inventée par MM. DE MONGOLFIER; Moyens de diriger les Ballons. FIRST EDITION 1784. 4to, approximately 260 x 195 mm, 10 x 7½ inches, woodcut vignette to title page, large floral headpiece to first page, pages: [2], 1-34, rebound in quarter calf with gilt lettered label and gilt decoration to spine over paper boards, vellum tips to corners, new endpapers, edges stained red. Pale age-browning throughout, last page has brown stained corners (see attached image), occasional small brown spot. Very good copy with attractive spine. See: Gaston Tissandier, Bibliographie Aeronautique, page 15, listing the smaller 8vo edition only. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Aerovoz revista mensual organo oficial de la federacion aerea nacional de cuba director calixto sanchez white 4 anos desde enero de 1954 hasta junio de 1957 director macario fernandez coleccion en 2 volumenes.en muy buen estado,revista ilustrada.es una revista muy rara sobre la aviacion cubana de la republica.con interesantes articulos y resenas historicas y de la actualidad.

16 pages with numerous illustrations after photographs. Pub-lisher's illustrated stiff cardboards. 4to (280 x 215 mm).
First edition of this brochure, illustrating the modernising of NASA's logo in many fields by the New York design studio Danne & Blackburn, with examples of printed publications and other advertising matter, graphic illustrations on cars, planes, and rockets, sign boards of all shapes, publicity in newspapers and commercials and on television programmes. It was in use from 1975-1992 and reinstated in 2020. Fine.

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Book cover like new, slight wear at end caps - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
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If Garry Winogrand photographed everything, all the time, as he is famous for having done, his pictures of airports convey the many still very familiar sights and spaces and sensations attached to air travel. Arriving at an airport, checking baggage, watching other travelers amble, walk and sometimes rush by, luggage trailing and flailing and neatly rolling along, passengers waiting forever on those long rows of attached seats, friends and relatives greeting each other and saying goodbye: everything that happened and stills happens in these vast public spaces. Winogrand's airport photographs were taken over a period of 25 years, with the first frame shot around 1958 and the last in 1983, just months… Read More

This book is"an Apollo astronaut's remarkable quest to reconcile science and religion in a self-organizing universe". The book is inscribed and autographed by Edgar Mitchell, who flew in the Apollo 14 spacecraft and is one of only twelve individuals who have set foot on a celestial body other than Earth.