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This satirical map of Europe represented combatant nations by caricatures of dogs and people, which displaying their attitudes towards the War.
The is Germany is the Dachshund, Austrian is a Mongrel, Belgium is a little Griffon, France is a large Poodle and Britain is the Bulldog led by a figure in naval uniform. Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia, shown driving a steamroller accompanied by a Russian bear.
The text was prepared by British humorist author of anthropomorphic dog books Walter Emanuel (1869-915)/ He commented the political situation in Europe in the early stages of Grate War.

Moskva, T-vo tipografii A.I. Mamontova, [1918].The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed on 3rd March 1918 in Brest-Litovsk. Bolshevik Russia gave up close to half its European territory and recognized the independence of Ukraine.
It was 'the most derogatory and humiliating treaty' for Russia, which considered as an act of treason.
On the other side it did provide some relief to the Bolsheviks, already fighting the Russian Civil War.
In 1918 three editions of the Treaty were issued in Russian. Our edition was published without map and duty rate tables.OCLC locates three copies of this edition in USA: in the Stanford University Library, in the University of Maryland Library and in the Ralph J. Bunche Library of the US Department of State.

Rare ephemera. War time edition. Nice typographic design. This advertising leaflet includes information about the content and supplements to Woman (1907-1917), Fashion Light (1868-1916), and XXth century (1910-?) magazines. The content was changed because of the Great War (war stories and images appeared) but the magazines continued to publish in good design. Furthermore, after the War began women's role changed and Women and War articles became common in these issues. Books for women and their kids advertising and satirical periodicals promotion are also published in the brochure.

Petrograd, [Tip. Aktc. O-va Izd. Dela "Kopeyka"], 1916.Rare.
In good condition, slightly warped book binding, small tear and stains on the cover, owner's mark on the first page, slightly water-stained to page margins. The copy contains press cutting. Exhibition ticket us glued to p. 3.
These posters were so well designed that people, for the first time in the history, started to collect them and display at exhibitions.
This exhibition displayed English propaganda posters, uniforms of the British Army and military postcards.
The common version of exhibition catalogue includes descriptions of 217 English posters. Our copy has also 32 thematic postcard sections and illustrated with original propaganda poster postcards (on black thin paper without legend).
The catalogue also contains three articles: England and Military Posters by Polish writer and anti-communist Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski (1876-1945), First Contacts and Acquaintances between Englishmen and Russia by writer and journalist Ivan… Read More