Fifteen Reproductions from Drawings and Latest Photographs of the Invasion of Belgium and France, Showing Troops, Guns, Fortress Towns and Ruins. 80 - Vol. 2
Ephemera, Unknown: Unknown, 1914. 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 the German advance: rapid movement of infantry, powerful siege gun, column of ammunition wagons, artillery. Resistance of the Belgians: bridge at Liege, gun in action, machine-gun crew, battery of heavy guns, Naur, Malines, Pervyse, intrenchment along railway. Also house-to-house fighting at Ypres (drawing by R. Caton Woodville), French Marines dining ashore, and mounted Sikhs in France (according to the picture caption - although probably they are not Sikhs but rather Middle Eastern forces). 8.75" tall; 8 pages.
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Price: $18.00