The Auto-Crat: a little Magazine of Comment and Reflection Published Each Month for the Edification of Autoists and Others.
Long Island City, NY: Daimler Manufacturing Co, June 1906. Wraps. Scarce illustrated booklet for the first foreign cars to be built in the US, the Mercedes. William Steinway, American piano manufacturer, received a license in 1888 from Gottlieb Daimler to build Daimler engines in North America. Daimler began building and selling a single automobile model, the original "American Mercedes", which it produced between 1904 and 1909.
The first section of the booklet describes the American Mercedes, claiming that, "Europe is the birthplace of the automobile - there the idea was born and there it has been developed. Daimler was the father of the automobile". The vehicle cost $ 7,500.00 at the time and was presented as exactly the same automobile manufactured in Germany, but selling for $ 3,000.00 less than the imported version.
16mo, frontispiece photograph of the interior of the Daimler factory, [22]pp, decorative stiff paper wrappers printed in brick red and green, cord ties. The beginning of each section is decorated with a red illuminated initial capital on a floral background. Wraps a little dusty and ruffled, otherwise very good condition. OCLC: 637070052 records one copy, at the Detroit Public Library (January 1906). Very good condition. Item #23676
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