The War Pictorial - Vol. 1
Scarce wartime picture / photogravure book about World War 1.
Sub title translates: Original photographs of the war- picture- and office for movie from the modern material battle
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This is Vol. 1 of this series, which has one star on the spine !!!
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A huge collection of Photographic Plates in Sepia of WWI - No text (other than introduction)
Includes Photos of German, Americans, French and others
Photos of Tanks, Horse Drawn Artillery, trenches, battlefields, aircraft
and other details of the war - Each page with tissue overlays - text under photos is in German
This is the genuine and exceptionally rare half-leather luxury edition
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- Hardcover, 350 pages
- Half Leather edition
- ~500 photo reproductions in gravure printing
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In good exterior and good interior condition.
Mild foxing to fore edge, bottom edge and endpapers, otherwise ok.
All pages are complete and tight in the binding.
This is a very heavy book.
Approx/Measurements: 10-1/4" x 7-3/4" ~4.7 lbs.
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This book is NO facsimile, it is a real authentic, original historical item!
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Published by Verlag, Weltkrieg im Bild, Munchen 1926
Up to page 246, photos from the battlefield in the west,
page 249 and following pages "remaining battlefields".
Very numerous photos from France, e.g. Saint Quentin, Verdun, dicke Berta (la grosse Berta),
Bourlon, Tanks, Cambrai, Masnières, Fontaine-Notre-Dame, Aubigny, Ham, Ripont, Champagne,
Aisne, Rethel, Paschendaele, Ypern, Flandern, Douaumont, St. Mihiel, Bapaume, Roupy, Albert,
Roisel, Clery, Peronne, Hermies, Avre, Moreuil, Bantheville, Arras, Liez, Argonnen, Bailleul,
Foucaucourt, Armentières, Peronne, Hollebeke, Noyon, Chaulnes, Loretto, St. Vaastwalde,
Kemmel, Montdidier, Chemin des Dames, Berry au Bac, Fismes, Chavignon, Marne, Givecourt,
La Ville aux Bois, Pontavert, Reims, Cormicy, Craonelle, Vincelles, Loivre, Fort Condé, Düna,
Mazedonien, Cividale
