Item #6651 The Book of the City of Dresden / Das Buch der Stadt Dresden [Fourth Issue, 1930]. Georg KÖPPEN.
The Book of the City of Dresden / Das Buch der Stadt Dresden [Fourth Issue, 1930]
The Book of the City of Dresden / Das Buch der Stadt Dresden [Fourth Issue, 1930]
The Book of the City of Dresden / Das Buch der Stadt Dresden [Fourth Issue, 1930]

The Book of the City of Dresden / Das Buch der Stadt Dresden [Fourth Issue, 1930]

Dresden: Council of the City of Dresden / Wilhelm Limpert-Verlag, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Pp. 195 followed by [pp. 4] of printer's advertising. Pp. 174-195 display advertisements. Illustrated with halftone photo reproductions. Text in German and English. Black cloth backstrip stamped with gilt titles, beige paper covered boards with titles and illustration printed in red and black, ffep blind stamped with logo of the "Internationale Hygiene Ausstellung Dresden Mai Okt 1930." Covers and spine lightly soiled and rubbed, light foxing to leaf edges and endpapers. Good+. Item #6651

Fourth issue of the capitol of Saxony's promotional volume, with emphasis on the city's industries including pharmaceuticals, electrical, mining, photographic films, cigarettes, chocolates, advertising and packaging, breweries, typewriters and sewing machines. Preceded by a section on the International Hygiene Exhibition and the new German Museum of Hygiene. A handsome production amidst the Great Depression. With excellent photos of buildings old a new, many of which were destroyed by Allied bombing near the end of WWII.

Price: $40.00