Rare Book Monthly
Book Catalogue Reviews - July - 2008 Issue
European Posters From Burkhard Sülzen
A seductive Greta Garbo and a giant foot.
Item 99 is an entertaining poster, a giant foot used to promote Efasit foot care products. Numerous workmen can be seen cleaning the giant foot in the 1938 German advertising poster. €620 (US $970).
Item 73 consists of 27 issues of a German wall newspaper from 1942-1944. Those dates give away what sort of propaganda can be found in these illustrated papers, primarily positive news about the war effort. €680 (US $1,063).
You may reach Burkhard Sülzen at 030-3903 6376 or [email protected]. The website is www.plakatkontor.de.
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Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Reaffirms the US Treaty of Friendship and Peace with Morocco, the Longest Unbroken Treaty in US History. $50,000 – 80,000.Freeman’s, August 20. Weeks After Victory at Yorktown, Benjamin Franklin Promises Repayment of a French Loan that Funded the American Revolution. $200,000 – 300,000.Freeman’s, August 20. Rare First Edition of the Foundational Text of the Mormon Church. $100,000 – 150,000.Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Sends the First Major Law Passed by Congress, the Tariff Act of 1789. $100,000 – 150,000.Freeman’s, August 20. A Scarce Example of Audubon's Depiction of a Brown Pelican, Plate CCLI from his Birds of America. $30,000 – 50,000.Freeman’s, August 20. The Official and First Obtainable Broadside Printing of the Lincoln's Final Emancipation Proclamation. $30,000 – 50,000. -
