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Click here to subscribeFOLIO SOCIETY: A miscellany of books on ancient and modern history, to include Gibbon (Edward), DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, Hibbert (Christopher), THE RISE AND FALL OF THE HOUSE OF MEDICI, Hughes (Robert), THE FATAL SHORE, Carcopino (Jerome), DAILY LIFE IN ANCIENT ROME, Hudson (Roger) (Ed), THE RAJ: AN EYE-WITNESS HISTORY and Barber (Richard) (Ed), THE PASTONS: A FAMILY IN THE WARS OF THE ROSES, each with original slipcase (some at fault) (26)
FOLIO SOCIETY: A miscellany of works of classic literature, to include Thomas (Dylan), UNDER MILK WOOD, Waugh (Evelyn), BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, Hodgson Burnett (Frances), THE SECRET GARDEN, Swift (Jonathan), GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, Joyce (James), DUBLINERS, and Lee (Harper), TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, each in original slipcase, with THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND ONE NIGHT, 4 vols, lacking slipcase (some at fault) (Qty)
Two boxes of various Folio Society volumes including A E HOUSMAN "A Shropshire Lad", WILLIAM NAPIER "The War in the Peninsula", AGATHA CHRISTIE "Miss Marple Stories", HESKETH PEARSON "The Smith of Smiths", LORD MACARTNEY "An Embassy to China", JOHN AUBREY "Brief Lives", KENNETH CLARK "Civilisation", etc, etc
Edmund Stone: The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments, translated from the French of M. Bion Chief Instrument Maker to the French King, with twenty six folio copper plates, calf, printed by HW for John Senex at The Globe, and William Taylor at The Ship and Black Swan, London, 1723.
A rare folder of twenty-four individual illustrations, given to a German officer during his training at Potsdam Propaganda School in 1942 titled 'Aus Der Heimat Des PK-MANNES', with a foreword in German from the Lieutenant Colonel and District Commander, explaining that there was to be a significant change in the nature of wartime propaganda. The enclosed illustrations were produced after three years of war and show a marked attempt to minimise focus on the militarised elements of warfare and troop recruitment by, instead, documenting daily life and activities at the Potsdam Barracks and on Bornstedter Field. Such illustrations were created as an incentive to further achievements and inspire 'joyful commitment' in the service and act of what was meant to be a reminder of 'a busy and enjoyable time'. This original folio contains twenty-four individually titled printed illustrations, all in very good condition, illustrating daily life and aspects of potential training for recruits and those engaged in the service, each signed 'PK (Propaganda Kompanien): Schubert' and dated 1942, 12cm wide x 16cm high. Sold together with a wartime copy of Deutschen Apotheke. Provenance: Acquired by Herr Wiedler during his service as a Propaganda Training Officer at Potsdam Barracks, 1942. Wiedler would ultimately end up fighting on the Russian front and did not get back home until three years after the end of the war, after walking most of the way back to his home in Rheine in Nord Rhein Westfailia. In the absence of any form of communication, over such a long time, his wife had assumed he had died on the Russian Front. Notes: Potsdam Barracks housed two batteries dedicated to Propaganda. The Depot Battalion was housed in the Propaganda Kompanien Barracks and acted as a pool for trained propagandists awaiting assignment, in addition to the training centre. The battalion consisted of four companies: 1st company, journalists: 2nd company, photographers and war artists; 3rd company, war reporters and 4th company, depot company, which included administrative personnel, and personnel who have returned to the depot after completing a tour of duty. In addition, there was also a section for radio propaganda experts. Recruits were mainly men who in civil life were journalists, press photographers or film cameramen. They received normal infantry training and frequently were sent on courses of 4-6 weeks duration at the Ministry of Propaganda. The Propaganda Service Battalion likewise had its HQ in the same barracks. It consisted of two companies: 1st company, a pool of linguists and 2nd company, called the Propaganda Liaison Company (Propaganda Verbindungskompanie), which provided personnel for ensuring the transit of propaganda material (including periodicals and daily papers), to and from the various branches of the propaganda organization throughout the occupied countries and the theatres of war. Its strength was about 400 men.
GERARD EDELINCK AFTER JEAN-FRANCOIS DE TROYJacobo Magnae Britanniae Et Walliae Principi (James Francis Edward Stuart as prince) engraving 49.5 x 44cm (unframed, laid down in a folio) together with seven other engravings of portraits: Sir Richard Blackmore; Francis, Earl of Godolphin; Sir Charles Wager; David Garrick; Charles Earl Grey; William Windham; and An unnamed gentleman, (all laid down on paper within the folio); and a 19th century watercolour of figures by a lake (unframed)
HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTRECElles, published by The Toulouse-Lautrec Circle, 1969, London, with an introduction by Michel Melot Conservateur au Cabinet des Estampes de la Bibliotheque Nationale, to include the eleven facsimile colour lithographs after Toulouse-Lautrec, each print numbered in pencil '866/1250' and each bearing publisher's blind stampThe edition limited to 1250 copies, of which this is number 866. Only available to members of The Toulouse-Lautrec Circle by subscription. The series of eleven lithographs known as Elles were originally published in 1896.Folio 57 x 44.5cm
A FOLIO OF UNFRAMED WATERCOLOURS, PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHSIncluding a watercolour of Victor Hugo by Louis Bailly; an etching of Maximilien Luce by Joseph Victor Roux Champion; an etching of Lord Balfour by Mortimer Menpes; an engraving titled 'Nestlings' after George Bernard O'Neill; an etching titled 'A pipe of good tobacco' by William Strang a quantity (all unframed)
VERONICA FITZGERALD (BRITISH, 1909-1998) (3)Still life of flowers signed and dated 'V.F.G. 52.' (lower left) watercolour, gouache and pastel 44 x 33cm together with a watercolour of flowers by the same hane, signed and dated '52', 41.5 x 29cm;and a folio containing six photographic prints relating to the FitzGerald and Severne families, a print of Ford Abbey in Devon, a watercolour of The Lodge, a watercolour of a lady reading, with a lady carrying a basket on the reverse, and three certificates relating to music and one to art addressed to Rachel Giralda Fitzgerald as a child(3)Veronica Fitzgerald (nee Villiers), was the daughter of Ernest Villiers and a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill. In 1929 she married Desmond Wyndham Otho FitzGerald, 28th Knight of Glin and went on to have three children. One of these children was Rachel Giralda FitzGerald who would go on to marry Michael Meysey Wigley Severne of Shakenhurst. Rachel was a model known as The Swan.Provenance: Shakenhurst Hall, Cleobury Mortimer. For further information please refer to the Bellmans website article: https://www.bellmans.co.uk/story/bellmans-2
DELAUNAY, Sonia (1885-1979)Compositions Couleurs Idees containing fourteen loose colour plates folio 33.5 x 26cm ARRCondition reportOne plate has part of image cut out.Incomplete. Plates/pages missing.Discolouration, staining, marks, creases to edges and corners. Vertical tear to lower left of one.Damage to folio.
Books, three volumes of The Imperial Shakspear, a very large folio with Greek boats, The Peytier Album and others IMPORTANT! REGARDING CONDITION REPORTS: Please note this is an auction with items being sold of behalf of The Alexander Devine Children's Hospice. Whilst we appreciate you would like to receive condition reports we may not have time to do this for you so please try and come and view the items in person as we may not be able to supply you with further information and photographs
Five Folio Socitey sleeved volumns, including The Great Plague, The Princes in the Tower, Legends of King Arthur, The Pastons, and 'Anthem for Dommed Youth IMPORTANT! REGARDING CONDITION REPORTS: Please note this is an auction with items being sold of behalf of The Alexander Devine Children's Hospice. Whilst we appreciate you would like to receive condition reports we may not have time to do this for you so please try and come and view the items in person as we may not be able to supply you with further information and photographs
A collection of books relating to Explorers and Adventure, including: Farthest North, by Dr. Fridtjos Mansen, Vols. 1 and 2; Folio Society edition of Pathfinders of the American West: The Journals of Lewis & Clark; Lewis and Clark: And The Crossing Of North America, by David Holloway; and others, in one box.
Raden (Woldemar) Switzerland, Its Mountains and Valleys, folio, illus. by A. Closs, 1878; Gos (Charles) Voyageurs Illustres en Suisse, lge. 4to, cloth, illus., French text, A. Berne, Paris, 1937, bearing the blindstamp of The Alpine Club; and Heim (Dr. A.) Das Santisgebirge: Geological Map of Switzerland, Vol. 2, atlas, illus. with maps and diagrams, lge. 8vo, original printed boards, Berne. (3)
Emery (M.F.) Switzerland Through The Stereoscope: A Journey Over and Around the Alps, sml. 4to, cloth, illus., with a booklet of maps and plans in rear cover wallet, 1901; Muddock (J.E.) (Editor) The J.E.M. Guide to Switzerland: The Alps and How To See Them, 12mo, soft covs., illus. with maps and plates, 1886; and four other books on Switzerland; together with Mantovani (Roberto) and Diemberger (Kurt) K2: Challenging the Sky, folio, cloth, illus., first edition 1995; Ohmori (Koichiro) and Bonnington (Chris) Over The Himalaya, obl. 4to, cloth, illus., 1994, with d.w; and other modern illustrated books on Mountains and Mountaineering. (21)
Dumas (Alexandre) Les Trois Musquetaires (The Three Musketeers), 2 vols, folio, half-morocco and marbled boards, illus. by J. Huyot, published by Calmann Levy, Paris, 1894; Verne (Jules) Voyages Extraordinaires, folio, printed gilt cloth, illus., published by Hetzel, Paris, c.1916; and Coppée (Francois) Oeuvres Completes: Poesies 1864-1887, lge. 8vo, half-calf and marbled boards, illus. by F. de Myrbach, Paris, n.d. (4)
West (Thomas) The Antiquities of Furness, 8vo, calf, illus. with engravings, new edition with editions by William Blose, Ulverston, 1813; and another copy in morocco, published 1805; Beck (Thomas Alcock) The Abbey of Furness, half-calf, illus. 1844; and Ross (Frederick) The Ruined Abbeys of Britain, folio, gilt-cloth, illus. with chromolithographs, 1889.
° ° Frink, Elizabeth - Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonne, 4to, cloth with d/k, Harpvale, Salisbury, 1984, in slip case; Jourdain, Margaret - English Decorative Plasterwork of the Renaissance, 4to, cloth in unclipped d/j, London, 1926 and English Interiors in Smaller Houses 1660-1830, 4to, cloth in unclipped d/j, London, 1923; Spiers. R. Phene FSA - The Orders of Architecture, 5th edition, folio, quarter cloth, Batsford, London, 1926 and Wondrausch, Mary - On Slipware, 4to, signed on title page, London, 1986 (5)**CONDITION REPORT**PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
Michael Cadman (1920-2012), a folio of assorted watercolours, mostly France, many signed and dated, largest 42 x 60cm, a box of the artist's sketch books and a map of Surrey.**CONDITION REPORT**Thirty-six total, not including the framed 18th century map of ‘Surry’ . Generally fair; many detail the location, France, Spain, Chichester Cathedral, jockeys and racehorses, etc.PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
Michael Lawrence Cadman (1920-2010), folio of assorted watercolours and pastel drawings including jockeys, garden scenes and landscapes, largest 50 x 65cm, together with a crate of assorted sketchbooks**CONDITION REPORT**PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
BOOKS, five boxes containing approximately 155 miscellaneous titles in hardback and paperback formats, mostly classical and contemporary fiction and compilations, authors include Anthony Trollope (includes four Folio Society editions) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, J.R.R. Tolkien, P.G. Wodehouse, Charles Dickens, Graham Green, Homer, Tacitus, Suetonius, Oscar Wilde, Erich Von Daniken, etc
A large album of newspaper articles relating to Airforce activity in WWI, the front board of the half calf folio gilt embossed "The closing phase of the Air war, April-Nov 1918, official review in the press, written for the air ministry by Lieut. A.H. Ross, attached to directorate of Air Intelligence, Air Ministry London 1918, 64cm x 48cm
'The Illustrated London News', July-December 1852, Volume 21, large wood engraved multi folding plates "Funeral of the Late Duke of Wellington in St. Paul's November 18, 1852" and "Wellington's Funeral Car" (both a/f with closed tears and small part losses), other content and engraved illustrations including Etna eruption, Burmese War, gold digging in Australia, railway works near Alexandria, Egypt, balloon descent near Guildford, Kaffir War South Africa, etc etc, a/f lacks pp225-257, folio, original publisher's blindstamped cloth gilt (worn)
HENRY HARWOOD REPORT ON BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE (1888 - 1950) British admiral, commanded a squadron consisting of the heavy cruisers HMS CUMBERLAND and HMS EXETER, and the light cruisers HMS ACHILLES and HMS AJAX, his flagship. He correctly anticipated the location of the pocket battleship ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE and successfully engaged her in the Battle of the River Plate on December 13, 1939. Important contemporary document (unsigned), not naming Harwood but undoubtedly prepared by him, 2pp. legal folio, [n.p., n.d., ca.1940], a brief self-typed account of the Battle of the River Plate. In small part: '...I knew a German Raider, probably a Pocket Battleship, was out and had been in the South Atlantic at the beginning of December. I thought she might next attack British trade on the South American Coast, and so I concentrated 3 Cruisers, Ajax, ACHILLES, and Exeter of the mouth of the Plate on December 12th...On the morning of the 13th, we were about 200 miles East of Punta del Esta. Smoke was sighted at 0610...[coming] from a Pocket Battleship. She came towards us and opened fire...All ships went on to full speed and went in to attack at once...Exeter on one flank and AJAX and ACHILLES on the other. Exeter was hit early, her bridge wrecked, and some of her guns were put out of action, but she went on closing the range, the Captain conning the ship from aft...We must have done the GRAF SPEE serious damage...she turned round under a smoke screen and made off...AJAX and ACHILLES closed in to 4 miles, frequently hitting GRAF SPEE, and fires were seen to break out...Both ships got slightly damaged, and AJAX had two turrets put out of action...GRAF SPEE made no attempt to close us...She did very accurate shooting, but got no hits...' The report also mentions the GRAF SPEE twice turning broadside to her attackers and unleashing salvoes which failed to find their marks before the battleship finally turned to make way for harbor. These pages are clearly not modern copies, and there is some fading, scattered foxing and edge wear commensurate with age. Only Harwood could have written this document, as only he held the position to order the vessels and observe the actions so reported.
AMERICANS HALT THE GERMANS AFTER KASSERINE Important pair of telegrams sent from British 1st Army Headquarters to British and American units involved in repulsing Field Marshal ERWIN ROMMEL's forces north of Kasserine, transmitted the day after the near destruction of several American and French regiments and battalions defending the crucial Kasserine Pass. These historic messages, each 1p. legal folio, Feb. 20, 1943, are written in military 'shorthand' but are relatively easy to decipher. They illustrate in some part the desperate effort being made to hold back Rommel's advance following his successes of the previous day. In small part: '...TO 18 ARMY GROUP...US 2 CORPS 5 CORPS 19 CORPS 8 ARMY...12 AIR FORCE 12 BOMBER COMMAND...SECRET...ENEMY CONTINUED TO ADV NORTH AND NW FROM KASSERINE PASS DURING NIGHT 20/21 FEB...AT LEAST 40 TANKS WITH INFANTRY ATTACKED CCB [1st Armored Division] POSITIONS...FIGHTING CONTINUED THROUGHOUT DAY...CCB DEFEATED ATTACKS ENEMY WITHDRW AND DURING EVENING CCB PUSHED FORWARD TO NORTHERN SLOPES...WHERE PREPARED ANTI-TANK POSITIONS ENCOUNTERED. ENEMY LOST SIX TANKS...WHILE FIRM BASE BEING PREPARED...25 ARMD BDE HELD ENEMY ATTACK BY 40 TANKS AND INFANTRY NORTH OF KASSERINE PASS DURING MORNING...26 ARMD BDE SUBSEQUENTLY DREW ENEMY TANKS TO PREPARED POSITION AND DESTROYED FOUR TANKS. FIHGTING CONTINUES...ENEMY INFANTRY ATTACK ON JUNCTION...REPULSED...THREE OWN TANKS LOST ONE ENEMY TANK HIT. FOURTEEN ENEMY TANKS ENGAGED BY NINE CHURCHILLS...FOUR ENEMY TANKS DISABLED ONE CHURCHILL DESTROYED...ENEMY ATTACK ON J RIDGE REPULSED...BISLEY AIRCRAFT ATTACKED MTON THE LEFT...' The message then notes that bad weather had halted aerial reconnaissance so results could not be determined. More good content. These messages are wrinkled a bit with stray dockets, pencil marks, and some thinned paper in one place, both bearing heavy mounting remnants on verso. Obtained from the Chief Clerk of the British 1st Army. By February 23, the Germans were through. Overextended and with supplies dwindling, pinned down by the Allied artillery in the pass in front of Thala and now facing U.S. counterattacks along the Hatab River, Rommel realized his attack had been stopped. With little prospect of further success, Rommel judged that it would be wiser to break off to concentrate in South Tunisia and strike a blow at the Eighth Army there.
SS GENERAL ORDERS MURDER OF CAMP INMATES Important printed document, 1p. legal folio, Office of Chief of Counsel for War Crimes [Nuremberg, ca. 1946] an evidentiary translation of a 'Top Secret' SS-Economic and Administrative Main Office order generated at Oranienburg, Apr. 27, 1943 and signed by RICHARD GLUCKS (1889-1945), Concentration Camps Inspector and a direct subordinate of Heinrich Himmler. Glucks was responsible for the forced labor of the camp inmates, supervised medical practices in the camps, including human experimentation, and initiated the use of Zyklon B gas. The document is directed to the commandants of all of the major concentration camps, including Dachau, Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Natzwiler, etc. It specifically instructs: 'The Reichsfuhrer-SS [Heinrich Himmler] has decreed that in the future only insane prisoners can be selected for the Action 14f13 by the medical commissions appointed for this purpose. All other prisoners unfit for work (persons suffering from tuberculosis, bedridden invalids etc.) are absolutely to be excluded from this action. Bed-ridden prisoners are to be given suitable work, which can also be done in bed. The order...must be strictly observed...The requests for gasoline for this purpose [cremation of bodies in open pits] will therefore be discontinued...' Chipped at margins with some paper loss (especially at bottom), but with no loss of text, a horizontal tape repair at bottom affecting only the translator's attestation. 'Aktion 14f13' was a campaign by Nazi Germany to murder concentration camp prisoners. Also called invalid or prisoner euthanasia, the sick, elderly and those deemed no longer fit for work were separated from the rest of the prisoners in a selection process, after which they were murdered. Clearly, Himmler's only concern here was saving gasoline as the course of the war in Russia had turned. Chilling, at the very least.
'DER STURMER' Issue of race-baiter Julius Streicher's anti-Semitic rag: 'Der Sturmer', 12pp. sm. folio, Nuremberg, July, 1936. The headline reads: 'Fraud upon Fraud Talmudereien without End' Beneath the headline appears a cartoon of a sneering 'Jew' looming over a dead man, a woman weeping beside the corpse. A poem beneath reads: 'It doesn't matter where in the world a man falls for the commune, If only the Jew wins, He stands in the background and grins'. As always, the bottom of the front page reads: 'The Jew is our Misfortune!' Content within is also largely anti-Semitic and includes a photo of Jewish 'communist' women, cartoons mocking Jews, editorial attacks on Jews, etc.
'DER STURMER' Issue of race-baiter Julius Streicher's anti-Semitic rag: 'Der Sturmer', 12pp. sm. folio, Nuremberg, January, 1937. The headline reads: 'The Talmud Jews - Jew Scandal in Copenhagen' and shows the expresiion 'The Jewish Question' in the form of a question mark. As always, the bottom of the front page reads: 'The Jew is our Misfortune!' Content within is also largely anti-Semitic and includes cartoons mocking Jews, editorial attacks on Jews, etc.
'HITLER AS A JEW' Sensational German newspaper 'Neue Abendzeitung', 6pp. folio, July 20, 1933, the headline proclaiming: 'The pit bull straight from Polna: Hitler as a Jew The truth about Hitler's descent - genealogical treasure-hunting...' The story occupies much of the first page and is centered on a graveyard and Jewish records in the town of Polna, Poland. At the time, there were many accusations of Hitler’s descent from Jews on his grandmother’s side, printed together with facsimiles of gravestones of his Jewish ancestors who were said to have been baptized in Vienna. Comparing extracts from birth and death certificates kept by the Jewish Community in Polna with certificates from a lower Austrian parish, one newspaper claimed it had sufficient proof that Hitler's ancestors were Jewish until 1850, most carrying the surname 'Huettler'. Paper is toned and ragged along the horizontal fold, with a small loss of text. Hitler had already been chancellor for six months when this story was published!
A superb period photographic copy of a Hungarian 'Schutz-Pass' or travel document issued by the Swedish embassy in Budapest that acted as a passport initialed by Raoul Wallenberg (1912 - disappeared 17 January 1945), Swedish businessman, diplomat, and humanitarian who saved tens of thousands of Jews in German-occupied Hungary from German Nazis and Hungarian Fascists during the later stages of World War II. While serving as Sweden's special envoy in Budapest between July and December 1944, Wallenberg sheltered Jews in buildings designated as Swedish territory and wrote thousands of passes to get them out of Hungary. The document is 1p. legal folio, Budapest, August 26, 1944, issued to Dr. Andreas Glucksthal, a Hungarian Jew, stating that he is authorized to travel to Sweden and is under the protection of their government, with Wallenberg's photocopied initials 'W.R.' in the bottom left. The top is stamped with the Hungarian word 'Masolat' ('Copy'), and the bottom 'Hitelesites A Tuloldalun' ('Authenticated on the face'). The verso is notarized by a Hungarian notary, bearing an original certification stamp indicating the signatory has seen the original document and is signing an accurate facsimile copy. Accompanied by another related photocopied document, 1p. 4to., Budapest, August 27, 1944, written by a secretary at the Swedish embassy requesting that Dr. Gluckstahl be exempted from wearing a yellow star in transit, bearing the same copy stamps, verso certification stamp, and Wallenberg's facsimile initials. Matted and framed. Very fine condition. These are authentic contemporary copies with original and contemporary manuscript and handstamps, thus provides an affordable opportunity to own a Schutzpass at a fraction of the normal $10,000-20,000 original. These lifesaving documents granted escape from otherwise certain death for countless Jews, and were paid for dearly with the life of one of the greatest humanitarians of the 20th century.
LITZMANNSTADT VICTIM EDUARD AGULAR DOCUMENTS Pair of documents once belonging to Holocaust victim Eduard Agular, a Jewish businessman born in Hamburg in February, 1907 who later settled in Prague with his wife. Included is a copy of Agular's birth certificate, 1po. legal folio, [Prague], 1939, signed at bottom by 'Rabbi Dr. Folkmann', accompanied by his 'List Domovsky', or Residence Document, 1p. legal folio, Chrudim (east of Prague), 1931, both documents with heavy folds and edge wear. Sold with copies of Agular's signed passport photo and identity papers. On October 26, 1941 Eduard Agular was one of a thousand Jews who boarded 'Transport C' destined for the Lodz Ghetto. Of those aboard, only 65 would survive the war. Agular is recorded as a victim of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto.
ADOLF HITLER (1889 - 1945) Fuhrer of Germany and Nazi Party leader, Hitler's bloody rise to power, his military seizure of most of Europe and North Africa and his genocidal racial policies culminated in suicide in his Berlin bunker as Russian troops approached. Partly-printed D.S., 1p. legal folio, Munich, Sep. 24, 1935, official permission that as Cavalry Commander Hannemann is departing the service, he is awarded his pension, permitted to continue to wear his uniform, and is awarded three months compensation. Boldly signed, co-signed by WERNER VON FRITSCH. Pencil docket, some wrinkles and a small tear at top, else very good condition. Werner von Fritsch (1880-1939) served as Commander in Chief of the German Army but was highly critical of Hitler's intention to go to war. Accused by Himmler and Goering of homosexuality, von Fritsch was acquitted, joined his former artillery regiment in the field, and was killed in action before Warsaw.
ADOLF HITLER AND HERMANN GORING ADOLF HITLER ADOLF HITLER (1889 - 1945) Fuhrer of Germany and Nazi Party leader, Hitler's bloody rise to power, his military seizure of most of Europe and North Africa and his genocidal racial policies culminated in suicide in his Berlin bunker as Russian troops approached. Partly-printed D.S., 1p. sm. folio, Bayreuth, July 27, 1938, a promotion document held in a presentation folder with an embossed gilt German national eagle on the cover. The promotion is for Major Ernst Mersmann-Munster to rank of Oberstleutnant, in part: '... I make these original discoveries in the expectation that the named person will fulfill his professional duties conscientiously, true to his oath of duty, and justify the trust placed in him by this promotion. At the same time I guarantee him my special protection...' Co-signed by HERMANN GORING (1893-1946), German politician who began his career as an ace in World War I, rose to become Hitler's right-hand man and head of the Luftwaffe, finally captured and committed suicide on the eve of his execution. Lightly toned throughout, else fine.
1905-1981) Nazi German architect and Minister of Armaments and War Production, convicted of war crimes at Nuremburg. Good content T.L.S. on personal letterhead, 1p. legal folio, Heidelberg, November 29, 1973, to Jorg Michael Schiefer responding to a request for information. In part: '...Of course I have read through the dispositions you sent me. But I can't tell you with the best will in the world whether supplements are necessary...I was thinking you could occasionally look through the countless photocopies of federal archive files that I keep...You might as well bring some order into this mess...Yesterday I found new material in the Lammers files in the federal archives which should also be of interest to you...' File holes to the left, a few light stains, else fine. Hans Lammers (1879-1962) was the Chief of the Reich Chancellery for the entirety of the Nazi Party's reign.
(1905-1981) Nazi German architect and Minister of Armaments and War Production, convicted of war crimes at Nuremburg. Good Fine content T.L.S. on personal letterhead, 1p. legal folio, Heidelberg, December 10, 1971, to Jorg Michael Kiefer adjusting his statements from an interview. In part: '...I am sending you the corrected answers in attachment...He [Hitler] himself cultivated this image and never would have contributed to destroying it. When Hitler encountered children, he tried to capture captivate them. But the children for their part, did not see him as a good uncle. I often noticed that when my grandchildren came to visit they either immediately feel attracted or remain reserved. Hitler was the type who despite his best efforts did not approach the children... This competition for a leadership school, which I failed, and of which I still have a few sketches, shows that in 1933 I was still a long way from what Hitler wanted. Hitler wasn’t interested in me, because I was already aware of his architectural ideas...I was frankly appalled at what I put on tape, I've tried to sort it out...' File holes at the left margin, else fine.
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