Fifteen Reproductions from Drawings and Latest Photographs of the Invasion of Belgium and France, Showing Troops, Guns, Fortress Towns and Ruins. 80 - Vol. 2

Unknown: Unknown, 1914. 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 the German advance: rapid movement of infantry, powerful siege gun, column of ammunition wagons, artillery. Resistance of the Belgians: bridge at Liege, gun in action, machine-gun crew, battery of heavy guns, Naur, Malines, Pervyse, intrenchment along railway. Also house-to-house fighting at Ypres (drawing by R. Caton Woodville), French Marines dining ashore, and mounted Sikhs in France (according to the picture caption - although probably they are not Sikhs but rather Middle Eastern forces). ; 8.75" tall; 8 pages.