Sixteen Reproductions from Drawings and Latest Photographs of the War in the Air, Soldiers in Africa and Australia and on the Various Fronts. 544-vol. 3
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 aviation, torpedoes, searchlights: view of crater from aeroplane, coast searchlight, destroyer escaping a torpedo (drawing by Norman Wilkinson), hydroaeroplane, seaplane and battleship, wrecked zeppelin, French dirigible. On the war fronts: fortifications on the Vistula, field hospital station, trench through a house, sentinel in the Tyrol, peasants of Galicia, observation station, artillery from underground shelter. Also pictures of Australian troops marching through Sydney on the way to embarking for the Dardanelles, and a well-constructed intrenchment in German East Africa. 8.75" tall; 8 pages.
Item #5060040
Price: $18.00