Description

Small 4°: illustrated colour frontispiece, title page, 604 pp. with 6 interleaved double-page colour illustrations and 1 interleaved full page photographs of Emperor William II, protected by structured paperguard, [1] index, folding plate with colour images, original illustrated binding, illustrated endpaper (in a very good, clean condition, minmal wear to the edges of the binging, frontispiece lacking a paperguard).

[German Naval Fleet. A presentation of the Development and the Present Situation of the Entire Emperor’s Navy, Its Organisation and Its Material].

A stellar example of a beautifully designed, richly illustrated book on the German Navy on the eve of WWI. The informative systematic chapters present the marine, its structure, ranks, boat designs etc. A large folding plate, attached at the end compares the German boats with the British ones. The author, Victor Laverrenz, was a publisher and writer, specialised in militarie, especially in the navy.