Italian Dogfighting and Bombing Instruction Between the Wars

[Military Aviation]

Tiro Aereo [with] Tiro di Caduta [with] Appunti di Armamento e Tiro

(S.l.): (S.n.), [1920s?]. Diagrams, some tipped in photographic illustrations. Cloth over boards with vellum spine and fore corners. Folio. 100 pages [and] 127 pages [and] 113 pages.

Three instructive texts, all in Italian, concerning the accurate use of mounted machine guns and the dropping of bombs from airplanes. These are World War I era or shortly after. There are numerous diagrams, graphs, and formulae. The text appears to be produced by mimeography. Some of the illustrations are tipped in photographs of diagrams and calculations.

Fine. bound in green cloth over boards with spine and fore corners in vellum; Gitl-stamped spine label has a patch of wear to lower right quadrant, else book and binding fine.

Item #1268

Price: $450