Der Kraftwagen seine Bedienung und Pflege Volckmann's Kraftfahrer Bibliothek Band 2 by Hessler, [Rudolf] Dipl. Ing - 1919

Berlin: Verlag Volckmann. Very Good-. 1919. First Edition. Publishers wrappers. 230 [& ads] pages; Publisher's grey wrappers with yapped (overlapping text block) edges -- lettered in black with rules in red and a small pictorial vignette of an automobile at upper margin of the front wrapper. With title page dated 1919, but the date "1920" appears at the foot of the front wrapper. German text. 58 text illustrations -- (halftones from photographs). Neat pencil signature on the half title page, dated June, 1921. With ads for the Stoewer automobile (built in Stettin); the Palla-Zenith carburetor; the Dixi automobile (Dixi was the brand name of cars made by Automobilwerk Eisenach -- bought by BMW in 1928); and the Daimler Mercedes Personen-wagen (several years before Daimler merged with Benz); Wilhelm Eisenführ, Berlin (factory and machine tools for automibile and airplane construction, illustrated with a bi-plane seen in profile); the Tuto carburetor-- and in the rear ads: HOVAD "Auto-Police" car insurance; Franz Sauerbier (springs); the Favorit carburetor; and two pages of ads for related Volckmann publications, including a page listing details of the three titles in this series: "Kraftfahrer Bibliothek" -- the present title, number 2 in the series, was the most expensive, at R. 4.60. Now scarce. See OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:840484067 -- (two locations only: Delft University of Technology Library (Netherlands); and Ateneu Barcelonès (Spain)]. There appears to have been a reprint in 1922 and an improved third edition in 1927. The author, Rudolf Hessler published a title in 1927 addressed to the needs of the automobile owner/driver (i.e., no chauffer required). There is a half page ad in this volume offering his consulting services as an engineer. .