An exquisite original ink, graphite and gouache/watercolor drawing of a French historical costume worn by a noble Frenchwoman during the 15th-17th centuries, after or copying a drawing by the French fashion illustrator Louis Marie-Lanté. Marie-Lanté drew elegant and refined depictions of historical costumes, in particular famous women of France known for their talents or beauty. This drawing depicts Marguerite of Lorraine (1564-1625), a prominent French noblewoman from the House of Lorraine who served as the Duchess of Joyeuse and later the Duchess of Piney. With a short description in French.....
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An exquisite original ink, graphite and gouache/watercolor drawing of a French historical costume worn by a noble Frenchwoman during the 17th-18th centuries, after or copying a drawing by the French fashion illustrator Louis Marie-Lanté. Marie-Lanté drew elegant and refined depictions of historical costumes, in particular famous women of France known for their talents or beauty. This drawing depicts Madame de Montespan (1640-1707), a French noblewoman and the most celebrated royal mistress of King Louis XIV. With a short description in French in cursive script along the bottom. Copying the.....
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A mid-century travel poster for the American Mail Line, which operated cargo ships between the Pacific Northwest and Japan. The American Mail Line was a Seattle-based commercial steamship service active from the 1920s through the mid-1970s that also offered passenger travel on their vessels. Many cargo ships during the period were built to also accommodate a small number of passengers for tourist travel. Before containerization, ships sometimes spent weeks in port being hand-loaded, allowing passengers and crew extended time to explore foreign cities. The composition reflects key elements of.....
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A collection of 25 postage stamps from four Communist countries, circa 1960, including 6 each from Russia, Cuba and North Vietnam plus 7 from China. Thirteen of the stamps appear to be uncanceled. A fun collection in fine condition.

Condition: Near Fine, all or most appear to be unused.
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A circa 1976 War Resisters League poster highlighting the injustice of the prison-industrial complex. With the text: "Capital punishment means them without the capital get the punishment." Includes an illustration credit for Peg Avery/Liberation News Service and a union bug printing credit for The Print Shop of Smithtown, New York. The War Resisters League is the oldest secular pacifist organization in the United States, having been founded in 1923. Copies of this poster are in the Victoria & Albert Museum (UK) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.....
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A 1989 poster celebrating 10 years of Nicaraguan independence from the Somoza dictatorship and published by the Nicaragua Network, a national grassroots organization that promotes friendship projects with Nicaragua and works to end U.S. intervention in Central America. Illustration by Chilean graphic designer and artist René Castro, a co-founder of Mission Gráfica, the community-based print center in San Francisco that became an icon of 1980s Bay Area political poster production. Art Direction is credited to Liberation Graphics. The composition depicts a smiling young woman holding two pink bouquets.....
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Poster commemorating George Jackson, following his death in custody at San Quentin State Prison in California in 1971. Jackson was associated with the Black Guerrilla Family, the Black Panther Party, and the Soledad Brothers case—the group of three incarcerated men charged with the murder of a prison guard. The case followed an earlier incident in which a guard shot and killed three Black inmates during a prison altercation, intensifying national attention on issues of racial injustice and U.S. prison conditions. Depicting a silhouetted male figure pierced by three gunshot.....
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A circa 1984 poster protesting U.S. intervention in Central America that reproduces a famous 1967 David Douglas Duncan photograph from the Vietnam war. It mirrors the image on left and right sides of the poster, asking if the U.S. tactics in Central America will lead to another Vietnam in El Salvador during the 1980s. With a small credit at bottom right for the worker controlled Northwest Working Press of Eugene, Oregon.

Condition: Very Good+, some soft creasing/surface dimples from previous rolling; very light edgewear.
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Scarce 1971 poster criticizing American President Richard Nixon and the country's involvement in the Vietnam War. The original image, titled “Nixon Tearing the Heart out of Indochina,” was created by prominent Cuban graphic designer and artist René Mederos. The composition depicts a map of Southeast Asia, with North Vietnam and Laos represented as a burning red hole in the map. A bird of prey bearing the face of Richard Nixon, with exaggerated vampiric fangs, grips the affected countries in its talons. Although Nixon is directly depicted, the work reflects.....
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A silkscreen poster celebrating the 9th anniversary of the FMLN (the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front) of El Salvador. The FMLN originated as a coalition of five guerrilla organizations in 1980 and engaged in a 13-year civil war against the U.S.-backed military government, advocating for land reform, social justice and opposing rampant inequality and state repression. They eventually signed peace accords in 1992 to become a legal political party, and won the presidency in 2009. The image depicts an El Salvadoran community gathering, including some armed.....
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A rare, original and important document distributed in West Berlin during the construction of the Berlin Wall. Posted during the rapid, two-week construction of the wall, the poster asks for the cooperation of the people of West Berlin and reflects the perspectives of West Berlin citizens and police on the inhumane decision by Walter Ulbricht, First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party from 1950 to 1971, to build the wall, while also urging civilians to comply with police instructions for the sake of community safety. Constructed in 1961, the.....
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Anti-Nuclear bomb/solidarity poster published by OSPAAAL, the Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America, with their logo in the lower right. OSPAAAL was established in Cuba in 1966 and produced anti-imperialist posters supporting socialism, armed liberation and solidarity among oppressed peoples. Text in English, Spanish, French, and Arabic. Depicting child’s face, partially obscured and rendered with a burned-paper effect mimicking the shape of the Japanese islands and the Hiroshima blast area, Cuban graphic designer Daniel García employs a simple yet powerful composition. August.....
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An oversized 1975 silkscreen poster by the Women's Graphics Collective of Chicago reprinting a 1973 poster to commemorate the independence of Guinea-Bissau from Portugal. The composition depicts an African landscape, with figures engaged in agricultural activities as well as combat, set against a rising sun and a silhouette of the African continent in the background - highlighting the Guinean-Bissau's people's ability to protect, maintain and care for their homeland and communities. The artwork (uncredited here) has been attributed to the Earthworks Poster Collective of Australia. The accompanying text comes.....
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