Name/Title
HISTORIC AIRSHIPSEntry/Object ID
98.56.1.1Description
Color: Burgundy
"Historic Airships" by Rupert Sargent Holland (Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, 1928), 343 pp. A hardcover book with a burgundy cover featuring an image of an airplane at center in blue and silver colors. The plane is within a circle of blue clouds with gold outlines and gold lines extending towards the edges surround the circle to create a border around the cover. Above is the title of the book while the author's name is below the image. The title, author's name, and publisher are also on the spine with a silhouette of a plane below the title; all are printed in gold. Celebrating the rapid advances in the the field of aeronautics, the book includes chapters on: early flight; balloons, dirigibles, and zeppelins; aeronaut Alberto Santos-Dumont; the Wright brothers; long distance flight; circumnavigation around the world; aircraft in war; and Charles Lindbergh. Many color illustrations and line drawings are included in the book. With acid burn marks on front end paper from clippings stored in the book and dented cover corners and abrasions on the spine ends, the book is in good condition.Lexicon
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Air pilots, Flights around the world, Voyages around the worldSearch Terms
Three-dimensional, Books, Aeronautics--History, Airships--History