{"id":7156666728495,"title":"KAISERIN AUGUSTE VICTORIA: 1906 - Hardbound interiors book \u0026 Ritz Carlton Restaurant promotion","handle":"kaiserin-auguste-victoria-1906-hardbound-interiors-book-ritz-carlton-restaurant-promotion","description":"Hamburg American Line - A very rare and remarkable book with English text about the interiors aboard the KAISERIN AUGUSTE VICTORIA and it's innovative Ritz Carlton Restaurant. Although undated, it is from around the ship's 1906 maiden voyage.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe hardbound, 160-page book features thick stock pages, many with tipped-in photographs. 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American Line - A very rare and remarkable book with English text about the interiors aboard the KAISERIN AUGUSTE VICTORIA and it's innovative Ritz Carlton Restaurant. Although undated, it is from around the ship's 1906 maiden voyage.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe hardbound, 160-page book features thick stock pages, many with tipped-in photographs. Although the restaurant is promoted on the cover, the first section is all about the ship. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBesides a portrait-at-sea, black and white tipped-in photos show the drawing room of a suite, the Imperial Suite, Grand Staircase, Dining Saloon, Ladies Drawing Room, Writing Room, Smoking Room, Smoking Room Staircase, and the Palm Court. There is one photo of the Ritz Carlton Restaurant and other photos show its namesake hotel in London and it's restaurant. Towards the back is a travelogue with five photos of sights.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSeveral pages of text are dedicated to the restaurant and its operation. It is noted that the Ritz Carlton Restaurant on sister ship AMERIKA was such a hit that the kitchens had to be expanded after the first voyage. Under the heading, \"All Tastes Consulted\", Hamburg American promised:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"The Englishman who travels by this line will find that he can get on the ocean a grill luncheon or a dinner only to be excelled, if excelled at all, by the Carlton Hotel in London.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"The American will find that the best of all the special dishes, shell-fish and fruits to which he is accustomed at home may be obtained on board.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"The German will find that he can be supplied with all the products and delicatessen particular to his Fatherland, of a quality not to be surpassed in Berlin or Hamburg.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"As for the Parisian, it is sufficient for him to know that M. Escoffier or some of his principal assistants are in the kitchen.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKAISERIN AUGUSTE VICTORIA and AMERIKA had less than a decade of service with HAPAG. After WW1 KAISERIN AUGUSTE VICTORIA was given over to Canadian Pacific to become the EMPRESS OF SCOTLAND. She went to the breakers in 1930. AMERIKA was seized the Americans to become a troopship, then a passenger liner for United States Lines, and then a troopship again during WW2. She was finally scrapped in 1957.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFair condition with cover and binding wear and several loose pages."}