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

RUEDOLF (1885-1950) 50 c VISITEZ L’EXTRÊME - ORIENT. Circa 1925. 37 1 / 2 x27 inches, 95 1 / 4 x68 1 / 2 cm. Reunies, Paris. Condition B+: replaced losses in lower margin; creases and repaired tears in margins; sharp creases in image and along horizontal folds. This poster also appears with the additional text at the bottom: “Par les Messageries Maritimes,” indicating that it was the French shipping company that produced this image to inspire travelers. Here, we see camels drinking at a port of Peking (Beijing); though many decades after the ports to China were opened, it is a scene designed to attract tourism made possible by the French trade lines. [700/1,000] M.L. HIRSCH (DATES UNKNOWN) 51 c LE MAROC PAR BORDEAUX. 1932. 39x24 1 / 4 inches, 99x61 1 / 2 cm. Chaix, Paris. Condition B+: repaired tears and overpainting in margins, some affecting image. Not in Orientalist. [1,000/1,500] 50 51