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Flotten-Kalender für 1914, Illustrierter Deutscher. (Illustrated German Naval Calendar for 1914.) 14^th volume. Founded with the co-operation of Rear Admiral Plüddemann by Wilhelm Köhler. Head editor Rear Admiral P. Schlieper. Minden, Wilhelm Köhler, (1914). 312 pp., pp. 241-312 of which advertisements. With 5 color plates and numerous (19 full-page) ills. Orig. ills. color boards.

Among the more extensive contributions – all in German – i. a. Seventy-five Years Schichau Works (6 pp.) – The Profession of a Ship’s Doctor (6 pp.) – Whale Hunt (8 pp.) – Memories of the Blockade at the East Coast of Africa 1888-89 (9 pp.) – Something about Mine Warfare (5 pp.) as well as the humorous fictions First Mate Rese’s Honeymoon – Guest Visiting – Junk Mending. Furthermore items on navy, training & life aboard, armoring & armament as well as tide table for Cuxhaven, and index of the German Naval Associations. Bound before calendar with both protestant and catholic calendar, change of the moon & commemorative days, and – opposite to each of the monthly pages – unused pages for notes with woodcut-like illustrations in the lower field.

The plates with portraits of Emperor William II in navy uniform (frontispiece), Prince Henry of Prussia with count Zeppelin, S.M.S. Hohenzollern in the Bay of Biscay, “Saved at the Last Moment” as well as

–  in  anticipation  of  August  the  same  year –  “ Mobilization: ‘Farewell ”.

The cover illustration showing a battleship in ice-drift. – Without pp. 257/8 & 305-308, but negligible as concerning only advertisements. Likewise 3 cardboard insets cut out, supposedly coupons. The isolated small margin tears, of which but one still reaches to image and text resp., backed acid-freely just as somewhat larger tears and one tear-off of one page each at two of the cut outs. Here and there smaller brown spots, only sporadically more. The covers aside from a push of the lower corner of the upper board almost only at the edges a little age-marked.
Offer no. 28,923 / EUR  38. (c. US$ 51.) + shipping