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JOUSSET, P. Illustrated contemporary Germany: 22 cards including 8 in color - 588 photographic reproductions
Paris: Larousse bookstore, without date [CA 1921]. In-4 °. (2) -294 pages (very numerous illustrations in text) + 8 color cards excluding text including 5 double cards
Half-yourself binding (slight traces of friction, back titled gold, without spots or freckles). Good condition. Format 25 x 33.2 cm. Weight 2.665 kg.
"Contemporary Germany illustrated traces a faithful painting from Germany in 1914, pre-war Germany. However, a supplement which gives, at the end of the volume, an overview of the political and economic consequences of the Treaty of Versailles, the German Revolution and the first applications of the Treaty, puts the work informed and allows interesting comparisons between yesterday and that of today. ".
Content:
I. Maritime front: Côtes et Ports: North Sea - War Navy - Baltic Sea
II. The capital and the army: Berlin - surroundings of Berlin - training and current state of the German army
III. Overview of the ground: relief, rivers, climate - western region
IV. The Rhine: Middle Rhine, from Basel to Mainz (right bank): River course - Black Forest and Grand Duchy of Baden - Neckar and Württtemberg region - Main basin
V. Le Rhin: Middle Rhine, from Basel to Mainz (left bank): Vosges and Alsace -Lorraine - Rhine loop
VI. The Rhine: from Mainz to Cologne: up to Coblentz - The Strategic Rhine - The Moselle - Beyond Coblentz
VII. Lower Rhine lessons: from Cologne to Holland: German general industry - EMS and Weser regions
VIII. Central artery of the Elbe: upper, medium (left bank), Saale basin, and lower
IX. Oriental plain: right bank of the Elba: mountains of the giants and ODER - AGRIZER CRISIS - Vistula and Prussia
X. Southern region: from Danube to the Alps of Bavaria: Danube course - Bavarian soil and agricultural associations - Bavaria platform: watercourses and cities - Political training, government - Bavarian Alps: Summits and Passages
XI. Unitary organization of Germany: central power - Customs Union and Trade ways - Expansion of Germany - Emigration - Colonies
XII. Germany and the Treaty of Versailles
Index
KEYWORDS : Germany, Larousse, illustrious book, illustrated book, Germany, Deutschland, Europe, History, 1914, Geography