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[TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. MILLER, Francis Trevelyan (1877–1959). The World in the Air: The Story of Flying in Pictures. New York and London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1930.
2 volumes, 4to. Photogravure frontispieces, additional engraved title–pages, numerous sepia tone illustrations. Original half parchment vellum, black leather lettering–pieces gilt (spines skewed, hinges cracked at preliminaries, edges rubbed at foot of covers).
LIMITED EDITION, number 168 of 500 copies of the “Pioneers Edition”. SIGNED BY 7 IMPORTANT FIGURES IN AVIATION including: Glenn L. Curtiss (first officially witnessed flight in North American); Dr. Hugo Eckener (first airship flight around the world on the Graf Zeppelin); Louis Bleriot (first airplane flight across the English Channel); Dr. Claude Dornier (builder of multi–engined aircraft); Henri Farman (first cross–country flight in Europe); Major G.H. Scott (first Trans–Atlantic flight in an airship); and Lieut. Arthur Whitten Brown (navigator of the first non–stop transatlantic flight). This was the “first historic collection of official prints and photographs from government archives and private collections recording five thousand years of man’s struggles to conquer the air”.