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Statement on imperial air communications made to the Imperial Conference, 1926, by the Secretary of State for Air, Samuel Hoare. Text begins: The subject for discussion is the question of Imperial air communications. I propose, with the approval of the Conference, to deal with it from the civil as distinct from the military point of view. Spans pages v-xi., The approach towards a system of imperial air communications, by the Air Ministry of Great Britain, printed and published by His Majesty's Stationery Office in London, 1926. The Air Ministry was a governmental department of the United Kingdom with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force, which existed from 1918 to 1964. It was under the political authority of the Secretary of State for Air. Atlas is bound in board, covered in light blue paper. Collation: [2], xiii, 91 pages, with [30] leaves of plates, including one folded map housed within a pocket on the verso of back cover. Plates contain 25 maps, 13 views and 3 diagrams. Maps show both existing and proposed air routes, as well as political boundaries, cities, railways, steamship lines, topography, vegetation, lakes, drainage, coastlines and islands. Views are captured photographically, some from an aerial perspective, and illustrate the landscape in detail. Diagrams depict airship construction and layout. In addition to two world maps, geographic coverage focuses on Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, as well as the United States, Canada and Australia. Volume includes a preface by the Secretary of State for Air, Samuel Hoare, as well as a report by the Imperial Air Communications Special Sub-Committee, a statement on imperial air communications to the imperial Conference, 1926, and Appendices A-F, which provide descriptive text on maps within the atlas. "Sole edition of this large-format, pivotal early document in the development of international air travel - complete with all 29 plates and the often-lacking loose map. The principal concern of the British during this period was accelerating air transport between the vast reaches of their empire - and chief among these was the lengthy journey to India, via the Middle East. As noted on p. 5, the maximum range of commercial aircraft in 1926 was a mere 400 miles; perhaps partly for this reason, the existing and proposed air routes include numerous stops for refueling in the oil-rich regions of Syria, Iraq, and Iran. - The stated aim of the Air Ministry was in fact to reduce the journey to India to just 5 days (p. VI), and although bold proposals are put forward and illustrated for giant "airships" with a range of 4,000 miles, the then-current technology limited aircraft to a designated route along the northern coast of the Arabian Gulf. Facing the challenge of "the extreme heat and the height of the Arabian Plateau, both of which tend to reduce the load with which an aeroplane can rise from the ground" (p. 9), the route is amply illustrated on numerous folding maps, from Cairo via Gaza, Rutbah Wells (Iraq), Baghdad, Basra, Bushire, Bandar Abbas, Chahbari, Pasni, Karachi, Hyderabad, etc. - Other chapters cover fascinating proposals for "major air routes" between Ottawa, London, and Kingston, Jamaica; "the use of wireless in air traffic communications" (p. 62); early air routes in Australia and the United States; and so on. The plates include designs for proposed experimental "airships"; photographs of early airports, and maps of meteorological phenomena. Particularly interesting is the "Map Showing Areas in Which Main Imperial Airship Routes Will Probably Develop" (facing p. 74), which indicates that alongside the Transatlantic route, the coasts of the Arabian Gulf (but not the interior) as well as the coasts of Africa will be the next targets of development." (Antiquariat Inlibris, 2021)

Note by the Secretary of State for Air, Samuel Hoare. Text begins: The following memorandum deals so comprehensively with the question of Imperial air communications that I need only add a few lines to underline certain of its outstanding features., The approach towards a system of imperial air communications, by the Air Ministry of Great Britain, printed and published by His Majesty's Stationery Office in London, 1926. The Air Ministry was a governmental department of the United Kingdom with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force, which existed from 1918 to 1964. It was under the political authority of the Secretary of State for Air. Atlas is bound in board, covered in light blue paper. Collation: [2], xiii, 91 pages, with [30] leaves of plates, including one folded map housed within a pocket on the verso of back cover. Plates contain 25 maps, 13 views and 3 diagrams. Maps show both existing and proposed air routes, as well as political boundaries, cities, railways, steamship lines, topography, vegetation, lakes, drainage, coastlines and islands. Views are captured photographically, some from an aerial perspective, and illustrate the landscape in detail. Diagrams depict airship construction and layout. In addition to two world maps, geographic coverage focuses on Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, as well as the United States, Canada and Australia. Volume includes a preface by the Secretary of State for Air, Samuel Hoare, as well as a report by the Imperial Air Communications Special Sub-Committee, a statement on imperial air communications to the imperial Conference, 1926, and Appendices A-F, which provide descriptive text on maps within the atlas. "Sole edition of this large-format, pivotal early document in the development of international air travel - complete with all 29 plates and the often-lacking loose map. The principal concern of the British during this period was accelerating air transport between the vast reaches of their empire - and chief among these was the lengthy journey to India, via the Middle East. As noted on p. 5, the maximum range of commercial aircraft in 1926 was a mere 400 miles; perhaps partly for this reason, the existing and proposed air routes include numerous stops for refueling in the oil-rich regions of Syria, Iraq, and Iran. - The stated aim of the Air Ministry was in fact to reduce the journey to India to just 5 days (p. VI), and although bold proposals are put forward and illustrated for giant "airships" with a range of 4,000 miles, the then-current technology limited aircraft to a designated route along the northern coast of the Arabian Gulf. Facing the challenge of "the extreme heat and the height of the Arabian Plateau, both of which tend to reduce the load with which an aeroplane can rise from the ground" (p. 9), the route is amply illustrated on numerous folding maps, from Cairo via Gaza, Rutbah Wells (Iraq), Baghdad, Basra, Bushire, Bandar Abbas, Chahbari, Pasni, Karachi, Hyderabad, etc. - Other chapters cover fascinating proposals for "major air routes" between Ottawa, London, and Kingston, Jamaica; "the use of wireless in air traffic communications" (p. 62); early air routes in Australia and the United States; and so on. The plates include designs for proposed experimental "airships"; photographs of early airports, and maps of meteorological phenomena. Particularly interesting is the "Map Showing Areas in Which Main Imperial Airship Routes Will Probably Develop" (facing p. 74), which indicates that alongside the Transatlantic route, the coasts of the Arabian Gulf (but not the interior) as well as the coasts of Africa will be the next targets of development." (Antiquariat Inlibris, 2021)

Statement on imperial air communications made to the Imperial Conference, 1926, by the Secretary of State for Air, Samuel Hoare. Text begins: The subject for discussion is the question of Imperial air communications. I propose, with the approval of the Conference, to deal with it from the civil as distinct from the military point of view. Spans pages v-xi., The approach towards a system of imperial air communications, by the Air Ministry of Great Britain, printed and published by His Majesty's Stationery Office in London, 1926. The Air Ministry was a governmental department of the United Kingdom with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force, which existed from 1918 to 1964. It was under the political authority of the Secretary of State for Air. Atlas is bound in board, covered in light blue paper. Collation: [2], xiii, 91 pages, with [30] leaves of plates, including one folded map housed within a pocket on the verso of back cover. Plates contain 25 maps, 13 views and 3 diagrams. Maps show both existing and proposed air routes, as well as political boundaries, cities, railways, steamship lines, topography, vegetation, lakes, drainage, coastlines and islands. Views are captured photographically, some from an aerial perspective, and illustrate the landscape in detail. Diagrams depict airship construction and layout. In addition to two world maps, geographic coverage focuses on Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, as well as the United States, Canada and Australia. Volume includes a preface by the Secretary of State for Air, Samuel Hoare, as well as a report by the Imperial Air Communications Special Sub-Committee, a statement on imperial air communications to the imperial Conference, 1926, and Appendices A-F, which provide descriptive text on maps within the atlas. "Sole edition of this large-format, pivotal early document in the development of international air travel - complete with all 29 plates and the often-lacking loose map. The principal concern of the British during this period was accelerating air transport between the vast reaches of their empire - and chief among these was the lengthy journey to India, via the Middle East. As noted on p. 5, the maximum range of commercial aircraft in 1926 was a mere 400 miles; perhaps partly for this reason, the existing and proposed air routes include numerous stops for refueling in the oil-rich regions of Syria, Iraq, and Iran. - The stated aim of the Air Ministry was in fact to reduce the journey to India to just 5 days (p. VI), and although bold proposals are put forward and illustrated for giant "airships" with a range of 4,000 miles, the then-current technology limited aircraft to a designated route along the northern coast of the Arabian Gulf. Facing the challenge of "the extreme heat and the height of the Arabian Plateau, both of which tend to reduce the load with which an aeroplane can rise from the ground" (p. 9), the route is amply illustrated on numerous folding maps, from Cairo via Gaza, Rutbah Wells (Iraq), Baghdad, Basra, Bushire, Bandar Abbas, Chahbari, Pasni, Karachi, Hyderabad, etc. - Other chapters cover fascinating proposals for "major air routes" between Ottawa, London, and Kingston, Jamaica; "the use of wireless in air traffic communications" (p. 62); early air routes in Australia and the United States; and so on. The plates include designs for proposed experimental "airships"; photographs of early airports, and maps of meteorological phenomena. Particularly interesting is the "Map Showing Areas in Which Main Imperial Airship Routes Will Probably Develop" (facing p. 74), which indicates that alongside the Transatlantic route, the coasts of the Arabian Gulf (but not the interior) as well as the coasts of Africa will be the next targets of development." (Antiquariat Inlibris, 2021)

Statement on imperial air communications made to the Imperial Conference, 1926, by the Secretary of State for Air, Samuel Hoare. Text begins: The subject for discussion is the question of Imperial air communications. I propose, with the approval of the Conference, to deal with it from the civil as distinct from the military point of view. Spans pages v-xi., The approach towards a system of imperial air communications, by the Air Ministry of Great Britain, printed and published by His Majesty's Stationery Office in London, 1926. The Air Ministry was a governmental department of the United Kingdom with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force, which existed from 1918 to 1964. It was under the political authority of the Secretary of State for Air. Atlas is bound in board, covered in light blue paper. Collation: [2], xiii, 91 pages, with [30] leaves of plates, including one folded map housed within a pocket on the verso of back cover. Plates contain 25 maps, 13 views and 3 diagrams. Maps show both existing and proposed air routes, as well as political boundaries, cities, railways, steamship lines, topography, vegetation, lakes, drainage, coastlines and islands. Views are captured photographically, some from an aerial perspective, and illustrate the landscape in detail. Diagrams depict airship construction and layout. In addition to two world maps, geographic coverage focuses on Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, as well as the United States, Canada and Australia. Volume includes a preface by the Secretary of State for Air, Samuel Hoare, as well as a report by the Imperial Air Communications Special Sub-Committee, a statement on imperial air communications to the imperial Conference, 1926, and Appendices A-F, which provide descriptive text on maps within the atlas. "Sole edition of this large-format, pivotal early document in the development of international air travel - complete with all 29 plates and the often-lacking loose map. The principal concern of the British during this period was accelerating air transport between the vast reaches of their empire - and chief among these was the lengthy journey to India, via the Middle East. As noted on p. 5, the maximum range of commercial aircraft in 1926 was a mere 400 miles; perhaps partly for this reason, the existing and proposed air routes include numerous stops for refueling in the oil-rich regions of Syria, Iraq, and Iran. - The stated aim of the Air Ministry was in fact to reduce the journey to India to just 5 days (p. VI), and although bold proposals are put forward and illustrated for giant "airships" with a range of 4,000 miles, the then-current technology limited aircraft to a designated route along the northern coast of the Arabian Gulf. Facing the challenge of "the extreme heat and the height of the Arabian Plateau, both of which tend to reduce the load with which an aeroplane can rise from the ground" (p. 9), the route is amply illustrated on numerous folding maps, from Cairo via Gaza, Rutbah Wells (Iraq), Baghdad, Basra, Bushire, Bandar Abbas, Chahbari, Pasni, Karachi, Hyderabad, etc. - Other chapters cover fascinating proposals for "major air routes" between Ottawa, London, and Kingston, Jamaica; "the use of wireless in air traffic communications" (p. 62); early air routes in Australia and the United States; and so on. The plates include designs for proposed experimental "airships"; photographs of early airports, and maps of meteorological phenomena. Particularly interesting is the "Map Showing Areas in Which Main Imperial Airship Routes Will Probably Develop" (facing p. 74), which indicates that alongside the Transatlantic route, the coasts of the Arabian Gulf (but not the interior) as well as the coasts of Africa will be the next targets of development." (Antiquariat Inlibris, 2021)

Report of the Imperial Air Communications Special Sub-Committee from the Imperial Conference, 1926. Lists members of the Sub-Committee. Text begins: In pursuance of a decision taken at the opening Meeting of the Imperial Conference on 19th October, 1926, the Imperial Air Communications Special Sub-Committee was set up to consider the subject of Imperial Air Communications and to report to the Conference thereon. Spans pages ii-iv., The approach towards a system of imperial air communications, by the Air Ministry of Great Britain, printed and published by His Majesty's Stationery Office in London, 1926. The Air Ministry was a governmental department of the United Kingdom with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force, which existed from 1918 to 1964. It was under the political authority of the Secretary of State for Air. Atlas is bound in board, covered in light blue paper. Collation: [2], xiii, 91 pages, with [30] leaves of plates, including one folded map housed within a pocket on the verso of back cover. Plates contain 25 maps, 13 views and 3 diagrams. Maps show both existing and proposed air routes, as well as political boundaries, cities, railways, steamship lines, topography, vegetation, lakes, drainage, coastlines and islands. Views are captured photographically, some from an aerial perspective, and illustrate the landscape in detail. Diagrams depict airship construction and layout. In addition to two world maps, geographic coverage focuses on Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, as well as the United States, Canada and Australia. Volume includes a preface by the Secretary of State for Air, Samuel Hoare, as well as a report by the Imperial Air Communications Special Sub-Committee, a statement on imperial air communications to the imperial Conference, 1926, and Appendices A-F, which provide descriptive text on maps within the atlas. "Sole edition of this large-format, pivotal early document in the development of international air travel - complete with all 29 plates and the often-lacking loose map. The principal concern of the British during this period was accelerating air transport between the vast reaches of their empire - and chief among these was the lengthy journey to India, via the Middle East. As noted on p. 5, the maximum range of commercial aircraft in 1926 was a mere 400 miles; perhaps partly for this reason, the existing and proposed air routes include numerous stops for refueling in the oil-rich regions of Syria, Iraq, and Iran. - The stated aim of the Air Ministry was in fact to reduce the journey to India to just 5 days (p. VI), and although bold proposals are put forward and illustrated for giant "airships" with a range of 4,000 miles, the then-current technology limited aircraft to a designated route along the northern coast of the Arabian Gulf. Facing the challenge of "the extreme heat and the height of the Arabian Plateau, both of which tend to reduce the load with which an aeroplane can rise from the ground" (p. 9), the route is amply illustrated on numerous folding maps, from Cairo via Gaza, Rutbah Wells (Iraq), Baghdad, Basra, Bushire, Bandar Abbas, Chahbari, Pasni, Karachi, Hyderabad, etc. - Other chapters cover fascinating proposals for "major air routes" between Ottawa, London, and Kingston, Jamaica; "the use of wireless in air traffic communications" (p. 62); early air routes in Australia and the United States; and so on. The plates include designs for proposed experimental "airships"; photographs of early airports, and maps of meteorological phenomena. Particularly interesting is the "Map Showing Areas in Which Main Imperial Airship Routes Will Probably Develop" (facing p. 74), which indicates that alongside the Transatlantic route, the coasts of the Arabian Gulf (but not the interior) as well as the coasts of Africa will be the next targets of development." (Antiquariat Inlibris, 2021)

Statement on imperial air communications made to the Imperial Conference, 1926, by the Secretary of State for Air, Samuel Hoare. Text begins: The subject for discussion is the question of Imperial air communications. I propose, with the approval of the Conference, to deal with it from the civil as distinct from the military point of view. Spans pages v-xi., The approach towards a system of imperial air communications, by the Air Ministry of Great Britain, printed and published by His Majesty's Stationery Office in London, 1926. The Air Ministry was a governmental department of the United Kingdom with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force, which existed from 1918 to 1964. It was under the political authority of the Secretary of State for Air. Atlas is bound in board, covered in light blue paper. Collation: [2], xiii, 91 pages, with [30] leaves of plates, including one folded map housed within a pocket on the verso of back cover. Plates contain 25 maps, 13 views and 3 diagrams. Maps show both existing and proposed air routes, as well as political boundaries, cities, railways, steamship lines, topography, vegetation, lakes, drainage, coastlines and islands. Views are captured photographically, some from an aerial perspective, and illustrate the landscape in detail. Diagrams depict airship construction and layout. In addition to two world maps, geographic coverage focuses on Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, as well as the United States, Canada and Australia. Volume includes a preface by the Secretary of State for Air, Samuel Hoare, as well as a report by the Imperial Air Communications Special Sub-Committee, a statement on imperial air communications to the imperial Conference, 1926, and Appendices A-F, which provide descriptive text on maps within the atlas. "Sole edition of this large-format, pivotal early document in the development of international air travel - complete with all 29 plates and the often-lacking loose map. The principal concern of the British during this period was accelerating air transport between the vast reaches of their empire - and chief among these was the lengthy journey to India, via the Middle East. As noted on p. 5, the maximum range of commercial aircraft in 1926 was a mere 400 miles; perhaps partly for this reason, the existing and proposed air routes include numerous stops for refueling in the oil-rich regions of Syria, Iraq, and Iran. - The stated aim of the Air Ministry was in fact to reduce the journey to India to just 5 days (p. VI), and although bold proposals are put forward and illustrated for giant "airships" with a range of 4,000 miles, the then-current technology limited aircraft to a designated route along the northern coast of the Arabian Gulf. Facing the challenge of "the extreme heat and the height of the Arabian Plateau, both of which tend to reduce the load with which an aeroplane can rise from the ground" (p. 9), the route is amply illustrated on numerous folding maps, from Cairo via Gaza, Rutbah Wells (Iraq), Baghdad, Basra, Bushire, Bandar Abbas, Chahbari, Pasni, Karachi, Hyderabad, etc. - Other chapters cover fascinating proposals for "major air routes" between Ottawa, London, and Kingston, Jamaica; "the use of wireless in air traffic communications" (p. 62); early air routes in Australia and the United States; and so on. The plates include designs for proposed experimental "airships"; photographs of early airports, and maps of meteorological phenomena. Particularly interesting is the "Map Showing Areas in Which Main Imperial Airship Routes Will Probably Develop" (facing p. 74), which indicates that alongside the Transatlantic route, the coasts of the Arabian Gulf (but not the interior) as well as the coasts of Africa will be the next targets of development." (Antiquariat Inlibris, 2021)

Report of the Imperial Air Communications Special Sub-Committee from the Imperial Conference, 1926. Lists members of the Sub-Committee. Text begins: In pursuance of a decision taken at the opening Meeting of the Imperial Conference on 19th October, 1926, the Imperial Air Communications Special Sub-Committee was set up to consider the subject of Imperial Air Communications and to report to the Conference thereon. Spans pages ii-iv., The approach towards a system of imperial air communications, by the Air Ministry of Great Britain, printed and published by His Majesty's Stationery Office in London, 1926. The Air Ministry was a governmental department of the United Kingdom with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force, which existed from 1918 to 1964. It was under the political authority of the Secretary of State for Air. Atlas is bound in board, covered in light blue paper. Collation: [2], xiii, 91 pages, with [30] leaves of plates, including one folded map housed within a pocket on the verso of back cover. Plates contain 25 maps, 13 views and 3 diagrams. Maps show both existing and proposed air routes, as well as political boundaries, cities, railways, steamship lines, topography, vegetation, lakes, drainage, coastlines and islands. Views are captured photographically, some from an aerial perspective, and illustrate the landscape in detail. Diagrams depict airship construction and layout. In addition to two world maps, geographic coverage focuses on Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, as well as the United States, Canada and Australia. Volume includes a preface by the Secretary of State for Air, Samuel Hoare, as well as a report by the Imperial Air Communications Special Sub-Committee, a statement on imperial air communications to the imperial Conference, 1926, and Appendices A-F, which provide descriptive text on maps within the atlas. "Sole edition of this large-format, pivotal early document in the development of international air travel - complete with all 29 plates and the often-lacking loose map. The principal concern of the British during this period was accelerating air transport between the vast reaches of their empire - and chief among these was the lengthy journey to India, via the Middle East. As noted on p. 5, the maximum range of commercial aircraft in 1926 was a mere 400 miles; perhaps partly for this reason, the existing and proposed air routes include numerous stops for refueling in the oil-rich regions of Syria, Iraq, and Iran. - The stated aim of the Air Ministry was in fact to reduce the journey to India to just 5 days (p. VI), and although bold proposals are put forward and illustrated for giant "airships" with a range of 4,000 miles, the then-current technology limited aircraft to a designated route along the northern coast of the Arabian Gulf. Facing the challenge of "the extreme heat and the height of the Arabian Plateau, both of which tend to reduce the load with which an aeroplane can rise from the ground" (p. 9), the route is amply illustrated on numerous folding maps, from Cairo via Gaza, Rutbah Wells (Iraq), Baghdad, Basra, Bushire, Bandar Abbas, Chahbari, Pasni, Karachi, Hyderabad, etc. - Other chapters cover fascinating proposals for "major air routes" between Ottawa, London, and Kingston, Jamaica; "the use of wireless in air traffic communications" (p. 62); early air routes in Australia and the United States; and so on. The plates include designs for proposed experimental "airships"; photographs of early airports, and maps of meteorological phenomena. Particularly interesting is the "Map Showing Areas in Which Main Imperial Airship Routes Will Probably Develop" (facing p. 74), which indicates that alongside the Transatlantic route, the coasts of the Arabian Gulf (but not the interior) as well as the coasts of Africa will be the next targets of development." (Antiquariat Inlibris, 2021)

Preface to The approach towards a system of imperial air communications. Text begins: So much interest has been aroused by the discussions on the development of civil aviation within the Empire which took place at the Imperial Conference, that a demand has arisen for the memorandum circulated by the Air Ministry to the Conference to be made available to the general public., The approach towards a system of imperial air communications, by the Air Ministry of Great Britain, printed and published by His Majesty's Stationery Office in London, 1926. The Air Ministry was a governmental department of the United Kingdom with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force, which existed from 1918 to 1964. It was under the political authority of the Secretary of State for Air. Atlas is bound in board, covered in light blue paper. Collation: [2], xiii, 91 pages, with [30] leaves of plates, including one folded map housed within a pocket on the verso of back cover. Plates contain 25 maps, 13 views and 3 diagrams. Maps show both existing and proposed air routes, as well as political boundaries, cities, railways, steamship lines, topography, vegetation, lakes, drainage, coastlines and islands. Views are captured photographically, some from an aerial perspective, and illustrate the landscape in detail. Diagrams depict airship construction and layout. In addition to two world maps, geographic coverage focuses on Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, as well as the United States, Canada and Australia. Volume includes a preface by the Secretary of State for Air, Samuel Hoare, as well as a report by the Imperial Air Communications Special Sub-Committee, a statement on imperial air communications to the imperial Conference, 1926, and Appendices A-F, which provide descriptive text on maps within the atlas. "Sole edition of this large-format, pivotal early document in the development of international air travel - complete with all 29 plates and the often-lacking loose map. The principal concern of the British during this period was accelerating air transport between the vast reaches of their empire - and chief among these was the lengthy journey to India, via the Middle East. As noted on p. 5, the maximum range of commercial aircraft in 1926 was a mere 400 miles; perhaps partly for this reason, the existing and proposed air routes include numerous stops for refueling in the oil-rich regions of Syria, Iraq, and Iran. - The stated aim of the Air Ministry was in fact to reduce the journey to India to just 5 days (p. VI), and although bold proposals are put forward and illustrated for giant "airships" with a range of 4,000 miles, the then-current technology limited aircraft to a designated route along the northern coast of the Arabian Gulf. Facing the challenge of "the extreme heat and the height of the Arabian Plateau, both of which tend to reduce the load with which an aeroplane can rise from the ground" (p. 9), the route is amply illustrated on numerous folding maps, from Cairo via Gaza, Rutbah Wells (Iraq), Baghdad, Basra, Bushire, Bandar Abbas, Chahbari, Pasni, Karachi, Hyderabad, etc. - Other chapters cover fascinating proposals for "major air routes" between Ottawa, London, and Kingston, Jamaica; "the use of wireless in air traffic communications" (p. 62); early air routes in Australia and the United States; and so on. The plates include designs for proposed experimental "airships"; photographs of early airports, and maps of meteorological phenomena. Particularly interesting is the "Map Showing Areas in Which Main Imperial Airship Routes Will Probably Develop" (facing p. 74), which indicates that alongside the Transatlantic route, the coasts of the Arabian Gulf (but not the interior) as well as the coasts of Africa will be the next targets of development." (Antiquariat Inlibris, 2021)