[Rarebooks] OFFER: WWI AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY, AMERICAN AND GERMAN.

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ANON.  U.S.A. SCHOOL OF AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY.
Ithaca N.Y. Self Published, 1918, First edition, or Unique. No Binding, 
Photo TP + 23 FP Sheets of Prints. Ill.: Anon.. Very Good to Fine/No 
Jacket. Np.  Title Page 27.8 x 34.2 cm. and 23 FP sheets of printing paper 
with 8" x 10" photographic images printed in the center All have the rubric 
U.S.A. School of Aerial Photography, Ithaca New York on a scroll in white 
in the lower left hand corner. With two loosely included enlargements, one 
with the rubric and titled "The Photographic huts" [200 x 250 cm.], and 
another, untitled which shows a truck with the words "[U]S.A Aeronautics 
[Mo]tor Truck [--]01" with the doorway open showing a shop in the interior, 
with a rolled up screen, meant among other things as a dark room [160 x 210 
cm.]. Some of the captions of photographs are: Copying a Mosaic[ using a 
view camera]; Studying Conventional Signs; Inverted and reversed Negative 
Lettering ; Chemical Storeroom-Photographic Huts ; Developing Aerial 
Negatives ; Photographic Huts ; The Acetylene Generator; U.S.A School of 
Aerial Photography-Main Building ; Instruction in Camera Suspension 
;Instruction on an Aerial Camera. These are all loose, missing any 
portfolio, but the number 24 to which they add up seems like a complete 
set. Activities shown include all activities of a group of enlisted men and 
no further shots would seem to be needed. Unloc. at OCLC/RLin, H, Y, 
Melvyl, CIC, NYPL, LC. Only record of such a school from any country in WW 
I, and apparently Unique,VG.     USD 2775.00

"BAYER FLIEGER ABTEILUNG" [ON FIRST PHOTOGRAPH, OF WOINVILLE]  AILLY & 
APREMONT FOREST. PHOTOS BY THE FLIERS OF: FLYING GROUP. 37 France/German 
Border Area. N PUB, 1918, Unique. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 32.75 cm. 
photos 16.5 x 12.4 cm. Nos. 3-104. Ill.: Above. Very Good Defects 
Noted/No.  46 [6]0. Landw. [P]Hr.-B[---] [F]liegerbilder XXI 2. Originally 
in a "Stoltzenberger Schnellhefter." Fabrick Stoltsenberg Oos Baden-Baden / 
Berlin SW 68 Markgrafenstrasse 76/77. But now in a modern album. Complete 
album of aerial photographs both individual and panoramic, made up from 
individual shots, made on the front during WW I. The locations of the 
photographs are given in an index as : Abgesprengtes Waldchen; St. Agnant; 
Apremont-wald; Str. Apremont Str. Agnant; Str Apremont Geromville ; 
Besembois; Blusses - Wald; Bouconville; Boucq; Brule Wald; Brussey; 
Chanoisjoly; Dreieckswalschen; Fauche Feu-Petit; Foret de la Reine; 
Frassard Joly; Fremerville; Gerechamp; Gironville; Girauvoisin; Haute 
Charriere; Joly Wald?]; Jurat Wald; Ratzenbueckel; Fort Liouville; 
Liouville; Liouville Wald; Marbotte; Marbotte Wald; Nauginsoud Wald; Pagny; 
Rambucouirt; Rickervurt Liondes [?] ; Vignot Wald; Waldheim; Woinville; 
Hivray[.] Pages are 32.75 cm. tall. Original aerial photos are 16.5 x 12.4 
cm. or the reverse .All on sheets noting the name of the flier and the 
observer, the height, and a number of other bits of technical information. 
The sheets are all numbered in red except for the first 2. The numbering 
begins with 3 and runs to 104. Most of these sheets have two aerial 
photographs of the size noted, but some consist entirely of a much larger 
photograph which is folded over so as to fit into a plastic envelope 20 cm. 
wide by 35 cm tall. These are called "Langenbilder", and the first one is 
named : Langenbild No.44 II zusamengest. & verf. U. Gruppenbildstelle 198, 
Eigener & feindl. Stellungen i. Ailly - & Apremont Wald. Aufgenomen von 
flieger-Abt. 37 am 16.8.18. This is not numbered in series. The photos all 
are clearly described in white on black on a margin, and some of the larger 
ones also have red lines added to indicate military features. At the rear 
of the album there are three very large originals of the sort which are 
called "Langenbilder" in the folded example. But these are made up of 
segments from many different originals ready to be photographed and made 
into langenbilder. The album thus seems to be a nearly complete record of a 
German aeronautic unit: Flieger Abteilung 37, and their work at one field 
of combat. This is a most unusual survival, as well as an important 
monument to early aerial surveying. All photographs are clear, unfaded and 
unbrowned. Those folded have cracks in the folds [not the Langen format 
shot nor the large masters for these in the rear]. Several of the larger 
photographs were originally in a ring binder and have holes made by the 
rings. None the less a spectacular album.    USD 4250.00

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