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DIE WELT VON OBEN (THE WORLD FROM ABOVE),
Lorenz, Erich, Kosmos, 1932, g (soft cover), German test, Geograpy & cultures of the world from trips by aircraft & zeppelin. Zurick to Kapstadt, the Orrient & Port Moresby via Australia, Halifax to Vancover. Around the world in a Graf Zeppelin, maps, 112 pgs.
$8.00


DEUTSCHE SPORT FLUGZEUAGE,
Pletschacher, Peter, Motorbuch Verlag, 1977, German text, f/f (as new), . over 100 types of German sport planes dating from 1909, with photos of all, 3-views of many, 267 pgs.
$35.00
EISERNES KREUZ UND BALKEN KREUZ,
Nowarra, Heinz, Hoffman, 1968, vg/vg German & English text, markings & camouflage systems of Luftwaffe aircraft of WW I, photos and color plates, example, 159 pgs.
$20.00


ITALIAN TEXT





AEROPLANI d'ITALIA PIERO MAGNI AVIAZONE,
Cometti, Giuseppe, Georgio Melocchi, 1969, vg/vg Italian text, Magnis company begani in 1919 designing components such as engine cowling & variable incidence wings. They also built a series of vale parasol wing monoplanes & the Jona biplanes. Production stopped with the advent of WW II, many photos, line drawings, 3-views, 71 pgs.
$15.00
COSTRUZIONE DEGLI AEROPLANI,
vg (soft cover), Reprint of a 1912 publication - construction of the airplane, drawings, 56 pgs.
$10.00



FRENCH TEXT





L'AERONAUTIQUE -JUNE, JULY 1928,
Bouche, Henri (Editor), Gauthier-Villars, 1928, Very good condition (for age) cover wear (inked name) no loose pages. French text, a long look at world aviation, mostly French. Covers commercial & military aircraft & engines. Loaded with photographs. Many full page ads from aircraft & engine manufacturers. 381 pages
$30.00





MERMOZ,
Kessel, J., Gallimard, 1946, good (soft cover), French text, Biography of Jean Mermoz, French aviator who flew in North Africa, but gained fame for his flights in the Andes mountains. Killed in a crash (1936), fold-out map of his activities, 269 pgs.
$7.50
WINGED SENTRIES, Gordon, John, self-pubished, 1963, vg/vg (oversized, small piece missing from back cover), see photo, English & French text, inside front cover has facsimile signatures of over 70 pilots including Raymond Collishaw, G E Nash & Joe Macbrien; history of the types of aircraft used by Canadian Armed Forces is permanently recorded, index, illustrations 104 pages. $15.00





SPANISH
EMBRAER, 1972,
Bandeirante; Ipanema; Xavante; Urupema brochures, Spanish text.
$3.50




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