Airlines of Latin America Since 1919 – R. E. G. Davies – 1997 Reprint – Aviation History

Author: R. E. G. Davies [Ronald Edward George Davies]
Title: Airlines of Latin America Since 1919
Publisher: Paladwr Press, McLean, Virginia
Date: 1997
Edition: First Reprint of the 1984 Edition
Format: Octavo
Pagination: xiv, 698pp
Illustrations: Black-and-White Photographs, Maps, Tables and Airline Data
Binding: Original Publisher’s Cloth, Lettered in Gilt
Dustwrapper: Original Pictorial Dustwrapper
ISBN: 1-888962-03-8
Condition: Fine in Very Good Dustwrapper
Stock Number: 004220
Location: OSR

Description

A very attractive copy of the 1997 Paladwr Press reprint of R. E. G. Davies’s major reference work Airlines of Latin America Since 1919, one of the most substantial histories of civil aviation in Central America, South America and the Caribbean. The book was first published in Britain by Putnam in 1984 and was subsequently reprinted in the United States before being reissued by Paladwr Press in 1997. Davies approaches the subject country by country and airline by airline, tracing the development of scheduled commercial aviation from the pioneering services of 1919 through the expansion of national carriers, international networks and the jet age. The work is exceptionally broad in scope, covering Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile and Argentina, with detailed attention to airlines, routes, aircraft fleets, mergers, international partnerships and the changing economics of commercial air transport.

Condition

1997 First Reprint. Octavo. xiv, 698pp. Original publisher’s cloth, lettered in gilt. Extensively illustrated with black-and-white photographs, maps and tables. Original pictorial dustwrapper.

The binding is nice and tight and very clean. The pages and illustrations are very nice and clean throughout. The book itself is in fine condition. The original dustwrapper is slightly creased and noticeably faded to the spine, with otherwise only minor signs of handling. The dustwrapper is in very good condition overall.

Stock Number: 004220 Location: OSR

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