The F-5L Flying Boat Handbook. Navy Department Bureau of Construction and Repair. December, 1918.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1918,

First Edition. octavo, blue boards stamped in gilt. (84)pp;. Government Printing Office, Item #35031

Illustrated with photographs and 10 fold-out diagrams from "General Arrangement Plans" through "Ordnance Installation" including plan, front elevation and side elevation. This manual "is designed to give the most satisfactory method of unpacking and assembling the model F-5L flying boat, together with information and suggestions which may prove valuable in its care and maintenance" (from the introduction). Light shelf wear, some browning of endpaper with a small tear at edge, otherwise a very fine copy.

Price: $600.00