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(Cold War - Soviet Aircraft Identification) TU-4

A detailed diagrammatic poster prepared by the Ministry of Supply in April 1951, elucidating the specifications and design of the Tupolev Tu-4. The aircraft was reverse-engineered from four Boeing B-29 Superfortresses (three intact, one crashed) that the Soviet Union had interned in 1944 after emergency landings. To maintain a cordial relationship with their wartime ally, the United States did not make a concerted effort to have the B-29s returned and asked the returning airman, who had also been interned, to keep quiet. Andrei Tupulov, arrested in 1937 during the Great Purge and from 1939 to 1941 sentenced to work in an NKVD sharashka for aircraft engineers, was tasked by Stalin in 1945 with copying the design. It was an elaborate endeavor, requiring the work of, "some 64 design bureaus and over 900 factories, research institutes, and technical entities." Among the difficulties that arose was keeping to the B-29's imperial specifications with components made to metric specification. 

Price: $345.00

De la Sphere

Striking example of this scarce copper plate engraving of an Armillary Sphere, surrounded by its various components.

Price: $375.00

The goodly Cedar of Apostolick & Catholick Episcopacy, compared with the moderne Shoots of divided Novelties in the Church before the Introduction of the Apostles Lives . . .

Rare early allegorical print, published in London.

Price: $475.00

G. Washington

Scarce large portrait of George Washington, which rarely appears on the market.

Price: $750.00

Tabula Poliometrica Germaniae Ac Praecipuorum Quorundam Locorum Europae

Scarce double page engraving, consisting of two sets of mileage charts.

Price: $345.00

[ The Ghost Story! ] Medical Advertisement - A Trusty Family Tonic - Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge. Presented By George Niggle, San Feilpe, Santa Clara Co., California.

This trade card, titled "The Ghost Story!", serves as an advertisement for Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge, a "trusty family tonic" promoted for its versatile medicinal uses.

Price: $125.00