Album w. ±500 leaves with on approx. 300 leaves the autograph signed wishes/ signatures, postcards, tickets and clippings/ (cut-out) photogr. portraits of over 1000 (famous) public figures (±200 unused lvs), dated between 18 november 1925 - 17 august 1938, almost all leaves w. letterpress heading in 4 languages (Dutch, French, English and German) reading: "De ondergetekenden wenschen den Wereldreiziger veel succes met zijn grootsche plan. (...) The undersigned wish to the globe trotter much success with his great plan (...)", bound in orig. giltlettered dark blue faux leather w. a mounted embroidered coat of arms of The Netherlands on frontcover, thick 8vo (width of spine 18 cm.). MUSICIANS: LEV POUISHNOFF (Russian pianist, autograph dated signature w. addition "Klavier-Künstler); PIERRE MONTEUX (French conductor, autograph dated signature); WILLEM ANDRIESSEN (Dutch pianist, autograph dated signature with "Pianist"); ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD (Austrian/ American composer, autograph signed musical qutation "Violente" (1 bar) dated "Amsterdam Nov. 1925"); SERGEI PROKOFIEFF (signature w. autograph "Compositeur" in purple ink); RUDOLF MENGELBERG (composer, signature); DIRK SCHÄFER (pianist, signature); EVERT CORNELIS (conductor, signature); LOUIS ZIMMERMANN (Dutch violinist, signature, dated "17 April 6"); WILLEM MENGELBERG (conductor, signature, dated "17 April 1926"'); VERA JANACOPOULOS STAAL (Greek/ Brazilian soprano, signature, above a cut out photogr. portrait); RICHARD STRAUSS (signature, accomp. by mounted cut-out portrait with letterpress caption: "The greatest living composer"); MAURICE RAVEL (autograph signed sentiment dated "Bordeaux [partly illegible] [6/12?] /29" with LÉO SACHS (French composer, with autograph signed sebtiment "En souvenir d'un beau succès de mes oeuvres à Bordeaux 18 Déc.! 1928") (Ravel and Sachs were vice-presidents of the Société musicale indépendante until 1927); GEORG SCHNEEVOIGT (Finnish conductor and cellist, autograph signed wish for a successfull journey); ILONA DURIGO (Hungarian contralto, autograph signed sentiment); LÉON GALLER (violinist); FELIX WEINGARTNER (German conductor, signature w. portrait clipping); JOHANN STRAUSS (composer, autograph signed sentiment); JOSEPHINE BAKER (autograph signed "Best wishes (...)"); MISTINGUETT (French actress and singer, autograph signed sentiment); IGOR STRAWINSKY (autograph signed music quotation of 3 bars); JACQUES THIBAUD (French violinist); MARIO TARÉNGHI (Italian composer, with musical quotation (two bars)); HENRI GAGNEBIN (Swiss composer); SERGEI RACHMANINOFF ("Amsterdam Octobre 1930"); WILHELM FURTWÄNGLER (German conductor and composer, signature); GREGOR PIATIGORSKY (Russian/ Ukranian/ American cellist, signature); FREDERIC LAMOND (Scottish classical pianist and composer, and the second-last surviving pupil of Franz Liszt). ARTISTS: JAN SLUIJTERS, WILLY SLUITER, PIET VAN DER HEM, SIMON MARIS, MARIUS BAUER, J.H. JURRES, ISAAC ISRAELS (all Dutch artists, all w. signature); FERNANDO RUIZ LUZYARTE (Spanish artist, small SIGNED sketch of an embracing couple w. autograph sentiment below); KEES VAN DONGEN (Dutch painter, signature in pencil); FRANZ HEIN (painter, graphic artist and bookdesigner); PIERRE LE TRIVIDIC (French artist, autograph wish accompanying a "rapide croquis" (portrait of Dirksz in watercolour)). ACTORS, ACTRESSES and ENTERTAINERS: COR VAN DER LUGT MELSERT, EDUARD VERKADE, JAC URLUS (all actors, all w. signature); ALEXANDER MOISSI (leading interbellum Albanian-Austrian actor, signature above his handcol. cut-out photographic portrait); JEAN-LOUIS PISUISSE (Dutch chansonnier and comedian); GABRIELLE ROBINNE and RENÉ ALEXANDRE (French actors, Alexandre w. autograph signed sentiment and Robinne with autograph "Societaire de la Comédie Française"); ANNA PAVLOVA (Russian ballet dancer, signature); JO BUZIAU (Dutch vaudeville artist, signature with real photo picture postcard portrait); EMIL JANNINGS (the first actor ever to win an Oscar (in 1929), but who later became "a reviled propagandist for Adolf Hitler" (The Independent) and never worked as actor again after the war); Agnes Straub (actress, signature). ROYALTY, DIPLOMATS, POLITICIANS and other PUBLIC FIGURES: HENDRIK PRINS DER NEDERLANDEN (signed photogr. silhouette cutting); SAMUEL VAN HOUTEN (minister of the Interior, signature); PIETER CORT VAN DER LINDEN (Dutch prime-minister, signature); HENDRIKUS COLIJN (Dutch prime-minister, signature); ARISTIDE BRIAND (signature, dated "Paris, 7 8me 1926", Nobel prize winner and French statesman); ALEXANDER WILLEM FREDERIK IDENBURG and DIRK FOCK (both with signature and autograph statement of function "Oud gouverneur-generaal van Nederl. Indië" (Idenburg between 1909-1916 and Fock between 1921-1926)); ANTON F. PHILIPS (co-founder of Royal Philips Electronics N.V., signature); GEORGE ALEXANDER ("GIJS") KOPPEN (Dutch pilot and aviation pioneer, the first to fly the return mail flight from Amsterdam to Batavia, thus laying the foundation for a postal service between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies, which for years was the largest in the world); GEORGES CLEMENCEAU (French prime-minister, signature); JOSEPH JOFFRE (French general, signature and press-photo portrait); EDMUND SCHULTHESS (Swiss politician, president of the Swiss Confederation); GIUSEPPE MOTTA (Swiss politician); ALBRERT SPALDING (American businessman, co-founder of Spalding sporting goods, signature); BENITO MUSSOLINI (2x: 1. A cut-out mounted printed portrait w. signature and date below the image (with opposite an original portrait of Mussolini by FRATELLI D'AMICO (rare, no copy traced)) and 2. a signed real photogr. portrait postcard, with autograph translation in pen and ink of a French text expressing his wish that many tourists may visit his beautiful country [signature cut off]; FEDERICI BAISTROCCHI (Italian general with a signed cabinet card); ARNALDO MUSSOLINI (signature, with a photograph of him sitting at his desk; Arnaldo was Benito Mussolini's brother); RADEN ARIA ADIPATI ACHMAD DJAJADININGRAT (signature, Regent of Serang (1901-1924), and subsequently of Batavia (1924-1929) and also a member of the Volksraad (or colonial legislature) of the Dutch East Indies); MARSHAL PÉTAIN (signature, with a press photo of Pétain and two French officers saluting (his soldiers?)); ARISTIDE BRIAND (signature, French co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926 for his crucial role "in bringing about the Locarno Treaty"); ELEFTHERIOS VENIZELOS (prime minister of Greece, signature); JOHANN SCHOBER (chanceller of Austria and founding president of Interpol, signature); MARIA MONTESSORI (signature w. date "1931"); ALFONSO XIII, king of Spain (signature w. date "Sep. 1935 Amsterdam"); ANTHONIE FOKKER (real photograph postcard portrait w. autograph "And...from the aviation world Tony Fokker" below).