Sixteen Reproductions from Drawings and Latest Photographs of Aviation Service, Modern Weapons, Destruction Wrought, and the Soldiers of Various Nations. 544 - Vol. 5
Ephemera, Unknown: Unknown, 1916. 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 1916 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 airmen and aeroplanes: inflating a balloon, hydroplane at Saloniki, aviator Marchal, plane wrecked in wire, aeroplane carrying food, Chapman wounded. War engines and their work: checkerboard trench, mining a mountain top, armored trains, mine explosion, ruined Chateau. Also photographs of Canadian soldiers in Canada and in France, French and German troops, and Australian regiments in Egypt. 8.75" tall; 8 pages.
Item #5060039
Price: $18.00