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![Text Box: Zeppelin-Weltfahrten Vom ersten Luftschiff 1899 bis zu den Fahrten des L Z 127 "Graf Zeppelin" 1932. Cigarette-picture album with 264 silver-bromide photos and one metallic Weltflug-Gedenkmünze seal. [In German] 1933 Dresden, Germany: Bilderstelle-Lohse. Marvelous book tells the story of German Zeppelins, including their history, construction and operation. Small (6 x 4 cm.) photos from cigarette packages are pasted on heavy album-style pages toe help tell the story. Includes maps of Zeppelin trips all over the world. Some photos show happy passengers using restaurant, wash room and staterooms aboard zeppelin, also aerial photos of cities and locations around the world, including U.S. Capitol, London Bridge, Kremlin. [Interesting that only seven years later, German bombers were dropping bombs on some of these sites!] Frontispiece photo of Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin with tissue guard. Vorwort: Zeppelin-Weltfahrten-Bilder liegen nur den Packungen der Zigaretten-Marken: Club und Liga. Photos and information on 25 Luftschiffen. . 54 sheets 34 x 24 cm. Paperback book with photo of Graf Zeppelin airship on cover, minor edgewear to cover, text and photos clean and complete. Album pages printed on heavy card stock. Very good. (7971) $224.00. Travel/History
England: Day in the Peak, A: An Illustrated Hand-Book to Bakewell Church, Haddon Hall, and Chatsworth, Second Edition by Cokayne, Andrea Edward 1887 Bakewell, UK: A.E. Cokayne, Rutland Square. Guide to chief places of resort in Derbyshire, with illustrations of Bakewell Church (8 Centuries of history), stately Chatsworth and antient (sic.) Haddon. 104 pp. 12.5 x 18 cm. Paper booklet, minor water stain on a few back pages, good. (7968) $23.00. Travel/England
England: Authorised Guide to the Tower of London, Second Edition, Revised, with illustrations and plans by Loftie, W.J. 1888 London, England: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Harrison and Sons, st. Martin's Lane. Guide includes engraved illustrations showing Queen's House, Bloody Tower, St. Thomas's Tower, Traitors' Gate, Cradle Tower, Lanthorn Tower, more. Plan of Tower. Fold-out drawing of Horse Armoury. Includes biographical notices of the most eminent persons imprisoned in the Tower including Anne Askew, Anne Boleyn, two Earls of Essex, Guy Fawkes and Earl of Arundel. 152 pp. 12 x 19 cm. Paper booklet, spine frayed and torn, back wrap missing lower third. Fair. (7966) $20.00. Travel/England
England: Craven Arms Hotel, High Street, Coventry, 1880 1880 Coventry, UK: Curtis & Beamish. Guide to old established Family Commercial and Posting Hotel. Includes walks in vicinity, drives, availability of packs of hounds for hunting. Schedule for coach departing Craven Arms at 6 a.m. for London, by way of Dunchurch, Daventry (Breakfast), Weedon (Change Horses) Towcester, Fenny Stratford (Change Horses), Dunstable (Dinner) , Redburn, St. Albans, Barnett (Change Horses) and arrive London at 8:45 p.m. at Castle and Falcon in Aldersgate Street. Ninety-six miles. 18 pp. 12 x 15 cm. Paper booklet, good. (7969) $28.00. Travel/England
England: London: The Hôtel Métropole, Northumberland Avenue, London, A Souvenir 1889 London, England: Chiswick Press, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane. Very elegant little guide to a famous West End hotel. Tariff of charges shows Table d'Hote Breakfast of tea, coffee, cocoa and variety of cold dishes, Finnon Haddocks, Fried Soles or Grilled Mackerel, Beefsteak, Grilled Ham or Bacon and Eggs, Oatmeal Porridge, 3s. 6d.; Luncheon consisting of soup, fish entrée, joint, sweet and ice, 3s. 6d. Dinner, served from 6 to 8:30 in the Grand and Oak Salons, consists of Hors d'Œuvre, soups, fish, entrées, relevés, rôti, entremets, ices, dessert, etc. Room rates, Sitting Room and Bedroom en suite from £1 1s. per day, sponge or hip bath in bedroom, 6d. Carriage hire for three hours in town, £1 1s 0d. Includes about 17 pages of advertisements. 68 pp. 12 x 18 cm. Elegant booklet with illustration of front of Hotel on cover, gilt edged pages, very good. (7970) $34.00. Travel/England
England: Windermere: John Heywood's Illustrated Guide to Windermere, Bowness, & Ambleside; with walks in their vicinity by Heywood, John 1889 Manchester, UK: John Heywood. Guide to Sights in the English Lake District, includes pictures of Windermere, Bowness from Furness Fell, Bowness church, Windermere from the Summit (Brantfell), Windermere from Biskey Howe, more. Ads for Crown Hotel, Timetable for Midland Railway for 1889 season, Mappin and Webb's knives and scissors, Banks & Co. Black Lead Pencils and Cadbury's Cocoa. 36 pp. 12 x 18 cm. Paper booklet, very good. (7967) $24.00. Travel/England
L'Invasion Dans Le Nord de Seine-&-Marne 1914; Trilport Montceaux Germigny; Publié sous loes auspices des Conseils municipaux de Trilport,Montceaux et Germigny. [Invasion of France North of the Seine-Marne, 1914, in French.] 1918 Meaux, France: Imprimerie-Librairie G. Lepillet, Place de la Cathédrale. This is the story of the German invasion of France in the early days of World War I, when Belgians fleeing the Germans poured into the three small towns in this history. This history covers the events in Germigny-L’Evèque, Trilport and Montceaux-les-Meaux, with French and British forces fighting the invading Germans. Includes photo of Railroad Bridge over the Marne at Trilport, blown up by the British, ruins of the Château de Montceaux, Bridge over the Marne at Germigny-l'Evèque, blown up by the Germans, and more. 52 pp. 17 x 25 cm. Paper booklet, very good. (7965)$26.00. World War I/History
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Women of the War; Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice. Illustrated with steel engravings By Moore, Frank. 1866 Hartford, CT: S.S. Scranton & Co. Author does not spare the graphic, bloody imagery in his stories about female heroism and sacrifice during the Civil War. Included are Fanny Ricketts, Mary Brady, Kady Brownell, Mrs. P.B. Hurd, Margaret Breckinridge, Elida Rumsey Fowle, Bridget Divers, Isabella Fogg, Mary Lee, Major Pauline Cushman, Mrs. John Harris, Mary Shelton, Carrie Sheads, Mrs. Stephen Barker, Belle Reynolds, Charlotte McKay, Mary Morris Husband, Anna Maria Ross, Mrs. A.H. Hoge, Emily Dana, Harriet Hawley, Maria Hall, Mrs. Governor Harvey, Amy Bradley, Rebecca Usher, Mother Byckerdyke, Ann Hitz, Mary Dupee, Loyal Southern Women, Details about Gettysburg and Fort Pillow, Loyal Sanitary Workers, and more. Many high-quality steel engravings of heroines. 596 pp. 15 x 23 cm. Green cloth on board with gilt design and lettering, edges frayed, top rear hinge torn 7 cm at spine. Half title page and frontispiece engraving loose. Poor. (4934) $20.00. Civil War/Women](image366.gif)
