Sale 2464 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 5, 2017

429  ​c  ​ (WORLDWAR I.) Groupe des Canevas de Tir des Armées. Panorama No. 15A — Secret No 473. Observatoire de Commandement C 13 (Partie Sud). Folding panoramic photograph in 8 sections joined, overprinted in red giving locations and scale, printed paper label mounted to outside cover. 7 3 / 4 x64 3 / 4 inches; sections joined with original linen tape, small closed tear in left margin. Enclosed in original paper folder with affixed color-printed map. Paris: G.C.T.A., March 1916 [700/1,000] Military photograph of the Alsace plain taken from the vantage point of Rocher de Hirnlenstein, a rock outcropping on an eastern slope of the Vosges Mountains near Steinbach, France. The view is an extremely wide panorama with parts of Cernay visible, including many landmark buildings, rail lines, stations and roads between towns labeled and identified. The foreground of the image presents the harsh reality of the scene: The landscape destroyed, the hillside barren of trees, the ground cratered from mortar shells, running fences of barbed wire, and paths of winding trenches carved in the earth are what remain from an engagement on the Hartmannswillerkopf mountain, one earliest battle sites of World War I. Cote 425 is noted as well as the front lines of the French. The photo was taken well after the action of the conflict. 429 430 430  ​c  ​ (WORLD’S FAIR.) World’s Fair Gold Brick. Gold-painted cast-iron souvenir paperweight. 2 1 / 2 x1x 1 / 2 inches; extremely well preserved in its original printed paper box. [St. Louis], 1904 [200/300] A superb little artifact from the largest of the World’s Fairs; a goldbrick in a sense, but not really. 431  ​c  ​ (YEARBOOKS.) Shortridge High School, Indianapolis, IN. “The Annual”. Together four issues comprising the years 1915, 1916, 1917 and 1918. Profusion of Art Nouveau wood-block and linocut illustrations embellishing student-written text, several full page plates in colors, tipped in photographs. Large 8vo format, printed paper covers cord-bound, light edge wear; generally clean. Indianapolis, 1915-1918 [200/300] See you next year. 431 END OF SALE