Die Praxis des Modernes Maschinenbaues. Model=Atlas. [etc.]

Die Praxis des modernen Maschinenbaues. Modell=Atlas. Berlin: C. A. Weller, [c. 1912]. 4to (327 x 230mm). 8 plates printed in colours, with numbered flaps and key, one folding (some spotting and staining). Original decorated cloth. The subjects include a Mercedes Kraftwagen, a locomotive, the Wright Brothers’ aeroplane and various other machines. With 2 other similar books, namely Moderne Fahrzeuge. Modell Atlas zu der Eisenbahner (Leipzig, [n.d.], coloured plates with flaps) and Science et Travail. Encyclopédie des Nouvelles Inventions. Atlas (Paris, [n.d.], coloured plates with flaps); and an original 19^th-century pen, ink and watercolour study titled “Polariscopo de Noremberg”, signed [?]N. Ferrer [see the last illustration]. Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. (4)