Die WELT IN FARBEN (The World in Color, in German) Vol 1 of 3)

NEAR FINE. Vol 1, of 3, devoted to repros of color photos of scenes in Italy, Sicily, Germany, Switzerland & Austria. The book of text(in German) discusses each plate in the separate portfolio of color reproductions. Plates tissue guarded & tipped in on heavy black boards. Flawless plates, no turned corners or fold lines. Few tissue guards with extra fold lines. There are 40 of the 42 plates called for, MISSING plates 13 & 20. (To compensate for the missing plates we have about a dozen of the plates from Vol 2, which is included with this order.) Text has brown paper covers with a string binding. Both text & plates enclosed in stiff cardboard which folds around them. This in turn enclosed in a clamshell type cover with the gilt lettered title at top, publisher at bottom, with nice circular color scene in center. Spine with title and a single star below, standing for Vol 1. This clamshell type cover extrems with minor rubbing. This technique of color reproduction was one of very first ever used in commercial applications. NEAR FINE portfolio. Folio. 56 pages of text & 40 of 42 plates.…