[Rarebooks] FS: Lusitania Inaugural Booklet

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Cunard Steamship Company. Vom Hoeft, E. S., ed.  TAGEN UBER DEN OCEAN 
IN 4 1/2. CUNARD LINIE. EIN JAHRHUNDERT TRANSATLANTISCHER SCHIFFAHRT 
1807-1907. Hamburg, Cunard Steam Ship Co. / B. Karlsberg, 1907. [6], 
84, [4] pp. Illus. with 1 double portrait and 1 color frontis, 15 
full page duotone plates, 1 chart, 5 initial letters and tailpieces, 
and 4 vignettes. Obl. 4to. Stiff navy blue paper wrappers with raised 
titles and designs. First edition. German text in borders. Color 
frontis of the Lusitania by the nautical artist Willy Hanken (1866 
-1853).

Issued by B. Karlsberg company, the Hamburg Agents for the Cunard 
Line, to celebrate the launching of the Lusitania and her sister the 
Mauretania (turbine-driven quadruple-screw Atlantic liners) both 
built to compete with the then faster German ships. She took the Blue 
Riband (Atlantic speed record) back in her first year and the two 
remained the fastest ships of their day. The Lusitania was torpedoed 
by a German u-boat on May 7th, 1915, which outraged Americans and was 
a contributing factor to its entry into the First World War. If you 
can't catch'em sink'em. Quite Scarce. We could find none in OCLC, 
RLIN, BL, DNB, or at the Wolfsonian. Very good or better, minor 
edgewear, a very tiny closed tear to front wrapper, faint darkening 
to the edges of leaves, otherwise crisp and bright. A nice copy. 
[28210]    $250.00

Regards,

Charles Kutcher
Kaaterskill Books
P.O. Box 122
East Jewett, NY 12424.
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