ORIGINAL WORLD WAR I POSTER ADVERTISING THE AMERICAN RED CROSS' CHRISTMAS ROLL CALL
(WORLD WAR I) BLASHFIELD, E.H. Poster: Red Cross Christmas Roll Call. Washington, 1918.
Original World War I chromolithographic poster by American artist E.H. Blashfield, featuring a nurse and the American national symbol, Columbia, advertising the American Red Cross' Christmas Roll Call from December 16th to 23rd, 1918. $3500.
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30 LARGE HAND-COLORED LITHOGRAPHS BY CHAM
CHAM (pseudonym of NOÉ, Charles Amédée de). A la Guerre comme a la Guerre. BOUND WITH: Le Grand Magasin d’Images. Paris, 1880.
First edition of this suite of 30 full-page hand-colored lithographs of Cham caricatures documenting the French colonization of North Africa, bound with an intriguing publication of 790 French magazine illustrations. $2750.
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FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF RAYNAL'S REVOLUTION OF AMERICA, 1781, THAT PROMPTED PAINE'S FAMOUS 1782 LETTER… TO ABBÉ RAYNAL
RAYNAL, Abbé [Guillaume Thomas François]. Revolution of America. London, 1781.
First edition in English, simultaneous with the first French edition, of Raynal's provocative work that dismissed the American Revolution as a "temporary upheaval," triggering Paine's fierce reply in his Letter… to Abbé Raynal, where he heralded the American cause as "the first war to be based on principle in the history of the world." $2500.
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