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