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[AVIATION]. Hispano-Suiza Aeronautical Engines Birkigt Patents Instruction Book November, 1918 Series No. 7A. New Brunswick: Wright-Martin Aircraft Corporation, 1918. 8vo. Illustrated with portraits of French World War I flying aces, as well as 14 fold-out blueprints and diagrams (including one housed in a pocket affixed to the rp). Publisher’s full black cloth, front board elaborately stamped in gilt (binding somewhat edgeworn, a few gutters over-opened, skewed, a few tears to fold-out diagrams). A rare instruction manual for maintenance and repair for the Hispano-Suiza A-I-E engine.