(Pan Am and the Kinkajou Expedition) Pacific Islands Pilot, Volume I, (Western Groups) with Sailing Directions for the Pacific Islands (Eastern Groups) Volume II

Washington, D.C.: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1928. Volume I Third Edition, 1928; Volume II Fourth Edition 1933. Both volumes with ownership signature and Washington, D.C. address of famed Australian navigator Harold Gatty, and both SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by Gatty to F. Dana Coman, starting at bottom of front paste down Vol. I -"Dedication is in the other end - as usual with me barse ackwards (nautical palaver)", continuing on to rear paste down "To Dana Coman A.B. from Harold Gatty 2nd mate dedicated and given for reasons in Vol. II", and on rear end page "Stand Back ! you shallow water men - and let a deep sea wave go by !". The inscription at front end page Vol. II reads " To Dana from Harold Gatty (D.C. address lined out but legible) So that he may become well acquainted with our future roaming grounds". Harold Gatty (1903-1957) is best known as the navigator, along with pilot Wiley Post, of the flight starting 23 June 1931 which set the record for aerial circumnavigation of the world in eight days, 15 hours, 51 minutes. Charles Lindbergh called him the "Prince of Navigators", and Anne Morrow Lindbergh was one of his students. F.(rancis) Dana Coman is best known as medical officer on the Byrd First Antarctic Expedition 1928-30, and in 1934-35 was the medical officer on 'Wyatt Earp' during Lincoln Ellsworth's second expedition to Antarctica. Their association involved the Pan Am and Kinkajou Expedition of 1935. The first Kinkajou voyage was secretive in nature, as the US Coast Guard and Navy were working in cooperation with Pan American Airways to determine aeronautical routes across the Pacific. Gatty was a representative of Pan American Airways, and sailed from Honolulu November 4, 1935 with Coman on the second Kinkajou voyage, to conduct meteorological observations and to pick up the personnel Dr. Coman had left on the three islands and return them to Hawaii. Both volumes Very Good Plus, slight toning to end papers, gilt titles rubbed. 3 fold-out maps Vol. I, 2 fold-out maps Vol. II. An excellent and intriguing ASSOCIATION COPY. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED. Third Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy.