Sixteen Reproductions from Drawings and Latest Photographs of the Munitions Works, Fleets, Guns, Airships, and Submarines of the Great Powers at War. 416 - Vol. 1
Ephemera, Unknown: Unknown, 1915. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket.
Unbound sheets with 15 black and white illustrations of World War I subjects. Paper is slightly age-darkened with light edge wear to some. Well preserved set of wire photos or news agency photos issued in 1915 to the press in limited quantities (sometimes as few as 25-50 per photo, although the number in this case is uncertain) for print media use. This set includes pictures of smelters and coke ovens, sprays of red hot metal, finishing a steel plate, pouring molten steel, Austrian Skoda gun, open hearth works, Press Works No. 11, hydraulic shears. Fighting ships: German pre-dreadnoughts, French destroyer Vaux, view in a submarine, Japanese battleship Kongo, British battle fleet, squadron at Kiel. Also aviation pictures: a Zeppelin over London at night and a German aviator receiving instructions. 8.75" tall; 8 pages.
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Price: $16.00