Europe.- World War II.- Vlaanderen (André) L'Europe en Sept 1939, serio-comic map of Europe, lithograph with full original hand-colouring, no. 19 from an edition of [?] 150, signed by the artist, sheet 610 x 860 mm (24 x 33 3/4 in), under glass, minor cockling, minor surface dirt, framed, Leon Burghgraeve, Bruges, 1939; together with an explanatory letterpress text sheet in English, framed (2)*** Scarce at auction. Britain is shown depicted as a woman with battleships on leads; France as Marianne, leading her troops into battle; Germany, with a swastika sash, stabbing a female Poland; and Russia as a Cossack holding a hammer and sickle, his arm around a large brown bear.