An extensive collection of specialist reference works and periodicals focusing on 20th-century naval and aviation history. The lot includes several large-format Jane’s yearbooks such as Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft 1977-78 and Jane’s Fighting Ships 1974-75, as well as the Studio Editions reprints of Jane’s Fighting Ships of World War I and Jane’s Fighting Ships of World War II. Also featured are multiple blue cloth-bound volumes of Warship World (numbers 2, 3, and 4) and titles from the Putnam Aeronautical Library including Airliners by Stroud and Fighters by King. Other notable works include Stuka at War by Peter C. Smith published by Ian Allan, Roll on the Rodney! by David Phillipson, and P-38 Lightning at War by Joe Christy and Jeff Ethell. The collection is supplemented by various issues of The Aeroplane Pictorial Review, a bound 1984 volume of Aeroplane Monthly, and other military history titles such as Jet Warplanes: The Twenty-First Century and Anti-Tank Weapons: Ground War Vietnam. The volumes are primarily cloth-bound hardcovers, many retaining their original pictorial dust jackets.
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