Null Olympic Games / Summer, 1936/ Berlin/
Aerial view of the Olympic facilities…

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Olympic Games / Summer, 1936/ Berlin/ Aerial view of the Olympic facilities. Bakelite plan. The installations are numbered (reference to the legend on the cover flap). Enhanced by its integrated protector: "XIE Olympiade, August 1936, Reichssportfeld, Berlin". A product of Baumeister and March of Berlin. In its original cardboard box, with period security, and detailed plan and legend of the installations given in the bakelite model. All 19 sites are listed and located in three languages. In the blink of an eye, you'll discover gymnasiums, swimming pools and shooting ranges. Size: 30 x 22 cm; with box: 31 x 23.5 cm.

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Olympic Games / Summer, 1936/ Berlin/ Aerial view of the Olympic facilities. Bakelite plan. The installations are numbered (reference to the legend on the cover flap). Enhanced by its integrated protector: "XIE Olympiade, August 1936, Reichssportfeld, Berlin". A product of Baumeister and March of Berlin. In its original cardboard box, with period security, and detailed plan and legend of the installations given in the bakelite model. All 19 sites are listed and located in three languages. In the blink of an eye, you'll discover gymnasiums, swimming pools and shooting ranges. Size: 30 x 22 cm; with box: 31 x 23.5 cm.

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[War of 1914]. "The Allies in Berlin. New patriotic game. Imprimerie A. Waton. St Etienne. (Circa 1914-1915). [War of 1914]. "The Allies in Berlin. New patriotic game. Imprimerie A. Waton. St Etienne. (Circa 1914-1915). Paper envelope, oblong format 44 x 19 cm. The upper side is printed: title and sender's name at the top, recipient's name and address left blank (to be filled in), stamp position and "Imprimés Recommandés". It contains: a game plan (chromolithography on flexible card, foldable into four), size 65.5 x 42.7 cm / a paper envelope containing twelve cardboard discs (2.2 cm in diameter) whose chromolithographed upper sides reproduce the flags of the Allied nations: France, England, Japan, Russia, Serbia, Belgium (each in duplicate) / a ruler (in duplicate). A game on the theme of the Great War, at a time when the war looked like a walk in the park: the Germans and their allies would be swept away in a few months, just long enough to get to Berlin and back after a good Revenge! The game plan is a map of Europe cut into numbered squares. The game was played with a pair of dice, which regulated the Allies' march towards Berlin. There are, of course, favorable and unfavorable squares; participants, representing one or other of the Allied nations, had to voice their patriotism loud and clear. Paper missing from the envelope, which has been restored.

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Set of various cardboard game plans. Set of various cardboard game plans.

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Olympic Games Berlin 1936. Die Olympischen Spiele 1936 in Berlin und Garmisch-Partenkirchen. [Berlin], Cigaretten-Bilderdienst Altona-Bahrenfeld, [1936]. 2 albums in blue cloth boards in publisher's illustrated dust jacket. Minor wear to dust jackets. Color and black illustrations in and out of text, including numerous vignettes (no apparent lacks).

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