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    Pictorial map of Tunisia designed by J. Vanney and J. Moretton in Art Deco style showing numerous cities and towns (including Tunis, Kairouan, Sousse, Sfax, and Gabes) and several interesting sites illustrated in profile such as Roman ruins at El Djem and Dougga, the Great Mosque at Kairouan, and the Selja Gorges, along with others.

    • Author: J. Vanney
    • Dimension: 30 x 21 cm
    • Place of publication: Asnières-sur-Seine
    • Year: 1931
  • Uncommon map of Northern and Western Africa (and Canaries) highlighting the main roads and tracks in the Sahara. From the rarest and most elegant cartographic work by Francesco Celestino Marmocchi, the Corso di Geografia Commerciale published in Genoa in 1858.

    • Author: Francesco Costantino Marmocchi
    • Dimension: 29 x 34 cm
    • Place of publication: Genoa
    • Year: 1858
  • Very detailed map of the Pacific Ocean with insets of Hawaii and New Caledonia. From Atlas Spheroidal et Universel de Geographie by M.F.A. Garnier published in Paris at Veuve Jules Renouard in 1862. This atlas is exceptional for its “spheroidal” maps of the globe, showing the various continents and poles, shaded to give the effect of a sphere floating in space. The remaining maps are also very well executed and colored. This is the only…

    • Author: Francois-Adrien Garnier (1799-1863)
    • Year: 1862
    • Dimension: 350 x 490 mm
    • Place of publication: Paris
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    Pictorial world map designed as gameboard by Lucien Boucher

    • Author: Lucien Boucher
    • Dimension: 50 x 65 cm
    • Place of publication: Paris
    • Year: 1947
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    Charming illustrated world map showing the geographical origin of the animals used to make furs designed by the illustrator Paul Ternat (1897-1951) and published by A. Clerin in 1930 for the French association of fur ateliers. The decorative pictorial map is embellished by three large wind roses and galleons in the seas.

    • Author: Paul Ternat
    • Dimension: 24 x 34,5 cm
    • Place of publication: Paris
    • Year: 1930
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    Recto shows pictorial map in colour showing mission-stations, government-stations, colleges, landing-grounds, and medical missions. Verso shows black and white map of eastern New Guinea with government-stations, mission-stations, and a boundary marked, and including index map. Cfr. Maslyn Williams Map Collection MFC 35 mappa nr.11

    • Author: Karl Vöster
    • Dimension: 33,5 x 47,5 cm
    • Place of publication: Berlin
    • Year: 1950
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    Spectacular promotional travel poster of Madagascar by Maurice Tranchant published in 1952

    • Author: Maurice Tranchant
    • Dimension: 120 x 80 cm
    • Place of publication: Paris
    • Year: 1952
  • nairobi national park map
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    Prima carta geografica pittorica del Parco Nazionale di Nairobi disegnata con il nord in basso da Dennis Own Mathews, geometra e cartografo che ha ricoperto il ruolo di Direttore Generale dell’Associazione Turistica dell’Africa Orientale. Pubblicata a Nairobi nel 1948, due anni dopo l’apertura del Parco, la carta descrive un esempio, piuttosto raro, di Parco nazionale situato negli immediati dintorni di una grande città. La carta mostra strade, sentieri, dighe, aree per picnic, fiumi, stazioni dei…

    • Author: Dennis Owen Mathews
    • Dimension: 42 x 54,5 cm
    • Place of publication: Nairobi
    • Year: 1948
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    Pictorial map of the United States featuring portraits of iconic American Jazz musicians like: Paul Desmond, Dave Brubeck, Jimmy Giuffre, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Gerry Mulligan, Bessie Smith, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Kenton, Lester Young, Woody Herman, John Coltrane, Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, Bennv Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Billie Holidav, Lennie Tristano, Stan Getz, Ornette Coleman, Jerry Roll Morton, Eric Dolphy, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Mingus, Gil Evans.…

    • Author: Vladimiro Lupi
    • Dimension: 100 x 69 cm
    • Place of publication: Ferrara
    • Year: 1984
  • Uncommon double hemisphere map of the world on a polar projection which focuses on the distribution of European colonies in different parts of the world. From the rarest and most elegant cartographic work by Francesco Celestino Marmocchi, the Corso di Geografia Commerciale published in Genoa in 1858.

    • Author: Francesco Costantino Marmocchi
    • Dimension: 25 x 38 cm
    • Place of publication: Genoa
    • Year: 1858
  • Rare pictorial map of the world by Gianni Ciferri published in Brescia in 1963 exclusively for school’s teachers. There are several and lovely vignettes throughout the map to illustrate the main features of the various areas of the world. At right eight views showing London, Niagara Falls, New York etc…

    • Author: Gianni Ciferri
    • Dimension: 52 x 75 cm
    • Place of publication: Brescia
    • Year: 1963
  • Uncommon elegant Italian map by Filippo Naymiller showing the world in two hemispheres published in Milan. Includes a second sheet of text embellished by vignettes engraved by Baldi. It provides really interesting geographical and statistical information of the continents. The map was finely engraved by Pietro Allodi. From Atlante di geografia universale: cronologico, storico, statistico e letterario. Milan, 1860 at Tipografia Pagnoni.

    • Author: Filippo Naymiller, Francesco Pagnoni
    • Dimension: 46 x 33 cm
    • Place of publication: Milan
    • Year: 1860