Sixteen Reproductions from Drawings and Latest Photographs of the War in the Air, on Land and under Sea, the Germans at Kiao-Chau and in Belgium. 560 - Vol. 2 by Unknown - 1914

Unknown: Unknown, 1915. Ephemera. Very Good with no 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.

Unknown: Unknown, 1915. Ephemera. Very Good with no 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… Read More

Unknown: Unknown, 1916. Ephemera. Very Good with no 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.