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HELIOGRAPHED MANUSCRIPT COMPARING EUROPEAN SEAPORTS
WITH 13 PLANS ON 8 FOLDING PLATES
FLÖCKHER, Adolf Wilhelm Georg Gottfried von. Bericht über einen im Juli 1898 erfolgten Besuch der Seehäfen Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerpen, London und Liverpool.
[Hamburg?], [1898?]. Folio (34.5 x 23.5 cm). Heliographed (photo-etched) manuscript, with 13 seaport plans on 8 folding plates (2 tinted lithographs and 6 black and white), the largest 65.5 x 106.5 cm. Original publisher's red cloth, gold-blocked, with printed decorative endpapers.
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A German report giving detailed accounts of the sea ports of five major European cities (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp, London and Liverpool) and comparing them with the port of the city of Hamburg, illustrated with 13 plans on 8 folding plates (numbered I-IV, Va, Vb, VI-VII). It devotes a chapter to each of these cities, discussing among other things their geographical situation, the connections to their harbours, and their position in international trade. With a 32-page conclusion comparing each of the ports discussed to that of Hamburg. The plans include scales, and arrows to indicate north. Also with an 8-page list of literature on these seaports. For the present publication, the report was reproduced from the author's manuscript by heliography (photo-etching). Five blank pages are not included in the page numbering and there is a page 259a between 259 and 260. Von Flöckher (1867-1931), in Edemissen (near Hannover), was a jurist and representative in the Berlin Reichstag.
A very good copy, with only an occasional small tear in a plate, and the edges of one text leaf browned. Binding also very good, with some wear at the corners and with the endpapers torn along the back hinge. A heliographed manuscript report on European sea ports, illustrated with 13 detailed plans.
