Aircraft

All About Mechanical Flight, reprint of 1910 edition, very numerous illustrations from b&w photographs & line-drawings, diagrams and plans, ex-library copy with front free endpaper torn out and d/w glued to endpapers, first few pages slightly crinkled, but rest of contents very good, blue boards in d/w, spine of d/w scratched where library label removed, David & Charles (Newton Abbot, Devon) 1972

19.7 x 12.1 cm, 520g, ISBN 0 71535 512 0

See the description (below) from the dustwrapper flap.

The section on aero engines is particularly interesting – I thought fuel-injected V8s belonged to 1990s cars, but Antoinette was producing one for aircraft in 1908!