Capt Pelletier D'oisy / Léon Raffin - Le Tour de la...

Captain Georges Pelletier D'Oisy / Léon Raffin Le Tour de la Mediterranee a bord d'un Avion Amiot. Illustrations de Léon Raffin. Paris: SECM - Société d’Emboutissage et de Constructions Mécaniques (The Amiot company). Scarce and attractive French aviation book documenting the daily reports of the three crew members who flew a long range biplane derived from a bomber design. The aircraft (a Amiot 122 BP3) left Villacoublay on 13 September 1927 and completed a Mediterranean circuit of approximately 10,850 kilometres in seven days, involving 67 hours of flying. Frontispiece reproducing a handwritten text by Laurent Eynac, who was then Minister of Air. Details of the route: Paris – Casablanca – Tunis – Benghazi – Cairo – Rayak – Bucharest – Vienna – Paris. Limited and numbered printing. (197/1550). Recent half green Morocco with green marbled boards. Gilt titles. As new binding. Inside, are glossy woven original covers. half title with facsimile signature of Doisy. Illustrated with 33 Art Deco compositions (including nine inset) in colour pochoir enhanced with silver - all by Léon Raffin. The binding is in as new condition. A little creasing to the woven half title. A couple of tiny spots (barely noticeable) to the title. Otherwise in excellent condition. 80 pages. 25 x 18 cm. The author is Georges Pelletier d’Oisy nicknamed “Pivolo”, one of the best-known airmen of interwar France. He was a World War I ace, with one of the very first aerial victories in history in April 1915 The publisher, S.E.C.M., is the the company that built Amiot aircraft in 1924 he flew from Paris to Tokyo, a journey of about 19,600 km that made him a national hero. His fame went beyond aviation: a vermouth brand, “Pivolo”, was named after him, with a poster by Cassandre, the great Art Deco poster artist. The book records a circuit of the Mediterranean in an Amiot aircraft: 10,850 km in seven days and 67 flying hours 33 colour compositions heightened with silver by Léon Raffin,

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