921 - 1098 FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS
- Trifle foxed; bookplate on upper pastedown; owner's stamp on first free endpaper and first blank.
= I.a. a plan of Shumen (Bulgaria). Dutch edition of a travel description from Constantinople to Germany, through the Balkans.
- Mostly w. bookplate.
= Werken van de Linschoten-Vereeniging XCVIII.
Jacobs, E.M. Koopman in Azië. De handel van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie tijdens de 18e eeuw. Ibid., idem, 2000, 304p., (col.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to. - AND 9 others, i.a. F. LEQUIN, Isaac Titsingh (1745-1812) (Alphen a.d. Rijn, 2002, ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr.).
- Both vols. bookplate on htitle and owner's entry on title-p. Bindings sl. worn; covers scratched.
- Very good set, attractively bound for Gaston Duffard ("G.D." on spines and scattered owner's stamps).
= Rare work on WWI military aviation, richly illustrated w. photogr. material, comprising i.a. biographies of great (French) aviators, accounts of combats/ bombardments, technical/ strategical information on aerial operations, and the production, use and disasters of various aircraft.
- Various defects.
= I.a. issues of Parole. Deutsche Krieger-Zeitung, De Soldatencourant and Der Landsturm.
- Yellowed; a few pages and wr. w. some minute imperfections in blank margins. A fine copy.
= Rare Nazi pamphlet. Under the motto "Leimruten für die Dummen" (gluesticks for the stupid), and based on original documents, partly reproduced in facsimile, the pamphlet dissects the demands of the left wing of the NSDAP under the leadership of Gregor Straßer, who was executed on 30 June 1934 in the purge that became known as the 'Night of the Long Knives'.
- Bookblock sl. warped. Otherwise fine. = The official guideline book of the German national socialist party.
- Sl. yellowed; a few (traces of) tipped-in clippings. Binding dustsoiled; spine-ends and corners worn; lower joint splitting.
= The official guideline book of the German national socialist party.
AND 1 other: W. REIBERT, Der Dienstunterricht im Heere (Berlin, 1942, frontisp. portrait, ills., orig. wr.).
- Covers sl. (water)stained. = The official guideline book of the German national socialist party.
- Incl. several worn/ dam. copies.
= 1941: no.1-24; 1942: no.1-5, 12, 19 and 23/24; 1943: no.8, 10, 15-19 and 22-24; 1944: no.1-14 and extra issue; 1945: no.1, 2 and 4.
- Folded; lower corner lacks sm. portion.
= Published directly after Hitler's failed Beer Hall Putsch, denouncing the triumvirate Von Kahr, Van Lossow and Von Seissen (who eventually refused to support the putch) as traitors ("Jüdischer wie ein Jude haben sich jene Männer benommen, von denen das deutsche Volk großes erwartete!"). Very rare.
AND 4 miscell. others, i.a. DIE PAROLE DER WOCHE. Parteiamtliche Wandzeitung der NSDAP. Folge 4 (20 January 1941).
- Flattened.
= The NOC was established by Meinoud Rost van Tonningen in 1942 in order to economically exploit occupied Soviet territory. The enterprise wasn't very succesful: one of the very few products that ever reached the Dutch market was Ukrainian tobacco.
- A few vols. sl. creased and worn.
= Bondy p.145: "After they came to power in 1933, the Nazis produced a steady flow of miniature booklets which were illustrated with photographs by Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's official photographer and showed the Führer with the army and navy, with German workers, at his mountain retreat, etc. During the Second World War, similar booklets reported boastfully German victories in Holland, Poland, Norway, France, in Eastern Europe and at sea. None of these publications (...) were for sale; they were given as receipts for donations during the "Winter Help" street collections and thus served a dual purpose, with propaganda being the most important one."
- Folded; usual defects.
= I.a. num. issues of the Völkische Beobachter (incl. the 31 January 1933 issue announcing Hitler's appointment as Reichskanzler), Pforzheimer Anzeiger, Die Schwarze Front, Der Angriff, Der Nationale Sozialist, Die Deutsche Revolution (newspaper of the pre-1933 "leftist" faction of the NSDAP led by Otto Straßer), Freies Deutschland (anti-nazi newspaper published by German officers in Soviet captivity) and an issue of Trud - Die Arbeit (Russian language newspaper for Ostarbeiter).
= I.a. leaflets spread across enemy lines calling on soldiers to surrender. Incl. num. rare items.