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Lot 547

Antique, Fine Art and Collectables auction held on Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th of May 2025

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

Sold for £380

Condition report

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 though none of the paper is missing.