Sale 2459 - Rare & Important Travel Posters, October 26, 2017

A. HAËG (DATES UNKNOWN) 142 c AÉRODROME DE POPEY / BAR - LE - DUC. 1910. 51x39 1 / 4 inches, 129 1 / 2 x99 3 / 4 cm. J. Minot, Paris. Condition B+: minor losses at edges and along folds; creases and light foxing in margins and image and along vertical and horizontal folds; punch holes in right margin. Paper. The “Great Airshow” of Bar-le-Duc aimed to capitalize on the growing public interest in all things aeronautic and offered the public aerial demonstrations of four planes - two monoplanes by Blériot and Antoinette, and two biplanes by Darman and Voisin. The adventurous among the attendees could even ascend in one of two hot air balloons named Vix and La Ville de Bar-le-Duc . Although bad weather rendered the event an overall failure, the poster effectively captured the romanticism and grandeur associated with this early time in aeronautics. Here, a pilot highlighted in the red of a setting sun flies his Blériot XI past Bar-le-Duc’s 12th century clock tower in a sky filled with various other aircraft. L’Histoire de l’Aviation p. 60 (var). [7,000/10,000] V. BENTHEM VAN DEN BERGH (DATES UNKNOWN) 143 c TENTOONSTELLING / SPORT EN TOERISME DEN HAAG. 1913. 40x25 inches, 101 1 / 2 x63 1 / 2 cm. Condition B+: minor repaired tears, creases and minor restoration in margins and image and along vertical and horizontal folds; slight staining at edges; repaired pin holes in top corners. Past, present and future meet in this image announcing an Exposition for Sport and Tourism held as part of the centenary celebrations of the independence and subsequent founding of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. An aviator in a Farman biplane is dropping a wreath atop the National Independence Monument in The Hague. As the Dutch Army Aviation Department was founded in March of 1913, one can see in this allegorical image the future of the Netherlands, complete with modern technology and military prowess, paying homage to the country’s past. [1,500/2,000] 143