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Lot 547
Royal Airforce Pilots' Handbook of the Cairo-Baghdad Route, pub. H.M. Stationery Office 1929 (third edition). Bound in blue cloth as a wallet book; the volume is an instructional RAF manual of flying between Cairo and Baghdad - complete with 12 colour sectional maps, and in wallet pocket 2 Appendices (each with calculation notes to verso) with a blue flight map by Shell of the Amman to Rutbah pipeline dated 1933  £400-600

Volume is faded with splits/tears to edges, pages coming away from spine, pastedown with pencilled JR.9762, toning/ minor stains to some pages, appendicies have calculations to verso, map has tears to creases

From Memorabilia in the Metalware, Collectors Items, Ephemera, Fabrics, Toys, Curios etc section in our Antique, Fine Art and Collectables auction to be held on Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th of May 2025