An amazing survivor – an early Istanbul opera broadside advertising the 1855 single-show performance of Gaetano Donizetti’s ‘Don Pasquale’ at the famous Naum Theatre in Pera (Beyoğlu), Constantinople, headlined by the legendary basso buffo singer Vincenzo Galli, published locally in Italian, Ottoman Turkish, Greek, Armenian and Armenian printed in the Ottoman Alphabet!
This is a superb example of a poster by a Poland-born artist Roman Cieślewicz, representing the SSSR and USA in forms of Supermen, as a mirror image of each-other, self-confidently rushing to save the world. The image was made amidst the Cold War and was published in a smaller scale on the cover of the esteemed French art magazine,…
A rare, seemingly unrecorded flyer made by a clandestine Partisan press in Slovenia shows a caricature of Hitler unsuccessfully fighting away Allied planes.
A very rare issue of ‘Warszawa Walczy’ [Warsaw Fights], a large illustrated broadside ‘wall newspaper’ issued by the propaganda bureau of the ‘Armia Krajowa’ [Polish Home Army] during the Warsaw Uprising, one of the most popular works published within the barricaded city to inform both resistance fighters and local residents, an especially fine example in very good condition.
A pair of very rare posters made for the Nazi-occupation regime in Slovenia during the summer of 1944, marking the terror that the German V-1 missile attacks were inflicting upon London, and supposedly Sir Winston Churchill personally, intended as propaganda pieces to rally the Third Reich’s dispirited Slovenian collaborators at a point when the Nazis were otherwise losing the…
A rare ephemeral anti-British, anti-French, anti-Russian and anti-Cossack poster, made during WWI in Ottoman language by the Navy Society Broadside, 51 x 18 cm (20 x 7 inches) (soft folds, tiny holes, slightly age-toned).
![[ISTANBUL OPERA BROADSIDE / ARMENIAN-OTTOMAN PRINTING:] Teatro Naum in Pera in Costantinopoli / Per la sera di Mercoledì 16 Maggio 1855 / Serata Straordinaria Devoluta a totale Beneficio. Del primo Buffo Comico Assoluto. Vincenzo Galli prima rappresentazi](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/66036-265x331.jpg)
![PARTISAN UNDERGROUND FLYER: Letalska vojna in Adolf! [Air-War and Adolf!]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/65967-265x331.jpg)
![WARSAW UPRISING UNDERGROUND PRINTING: Warszawa Walczy żołnierska gazeta scienna. [Warsaw Fights: Soldiers’ Wall Newspaper], Issue No. 40.](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/dxaefdvsdvsd-265x331.jpg)
