Meyer, Hans: Das Deutsche Kolonialreich. Eine Länderkunde der deutschen Schutzgebiete. 2 Vol. Leipzig and Wien: Verlag des bibliographischen Instituts 1909. 25,2 x 17,3 cm. With 12 colour plates, 66 double plates, 54 colour map inserts and 102 text maps, profiles and diagrams. XII, 74, IV pp., pp. 75–635, 1 unnumbered p., 2 leaves, IV pp., 2 leaves, pp. 637–650, 2 leaves; XIII pp., 1 unnumbered p., 32, IV pp., pp. 33–127, 1 unnumbered p., IV pp., 4 leaves, pp. 129–298, 1 leaf, IV pp. , 3 folios, pp. 299–496, VI pp., 2 folios, IV pp., pp. 497–541, 1 unnumbered page, pp. 543–575, 1 unnumbered page, 2 folios. Original linen binding with a gold-stamped vignette on the cover, fillets on the cover, and titles on the cover and spine. Illustrated endpapers. Coloured head edge (green).

(The cover is slightly scuffed. The volume has more pronounced scuff marks on the back cover.)

Kainbacher 306. Henze III, 456. – A comprehensive overview, featuring extensive maps and plates, produced in collaboration with Siegfried Passarge, Leonhard Schultze, Wilhelm Sievers and Georg Wegener. - A well-researched standard work, to which no other country “has been able to produce anything even remotely comparable” (Henze). - Contains, in Volume I: East Africa and Cameroon; and in Volume II: Togo, South-West Africa, protectorates in the South Seas and the Kiautschou region.