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Out of stockGrande carta geografica pittorica dell’Uruguay orientale disegnata dall’illustratore Jorge Elia e pubblicata a Montevideo nel 1978 presso la Escuela Artes Graficas Don Orione. Basata sui rilevamenti del Servizio Geografico Militare e del dipartimento Oceanografico e Idrografico della Marina la grande carta aveva lo scopo di riassumere attraverso deliziose vignette gli aspetti economici, sociali, statistici, culturali e turistici dell’Uruguay costituendo una fonte di informazione visiva e immediata per gli studenti delle scuole superiori.
- Dimension: 56 x 78 cm
- Place of publication: Montevideo
- Year: 1978
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A beautiful pictorial map of the world, showing the routes flown by French Airline Union de Transports Aériens. The world centered on Pacific is depicted physical with a nice colors.
The map shows UTA’s routes to the African Continent from Paris, primarily flying to former French colonies in West Africa, as well as to Karachi, Athens, Bangkok, Saigon, Singapore, Djakarta, Darwin and French Polynesia. Routes to Honolulu and Los Angeles from Papeete are also shown.
Union de Transports Aériens (UTA), formed in 1963 as a result of a merger between Union Aéromaritime de Transport (UAT) and Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux (TAI), was the largest wholly privately owned, independent airline in France. It was absorbed into Air France between 1990 and 1992.- Dimension: 49 x 68 cm
- Place of publication: Paris
- Year: 1965
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Out of stockMagnificent large color bird’s eye view of East Africa designed by Carlo Sulzer and published bt Antonio Vallardi in Milan, 1935. The map shows the political divisions in the Horn of Africa during Italy’s conquest of the region. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Kenya Colony, and British Somaliland are all still held by the U.K. Italian Somaliland, Libya, and Eritrea are held by the Italians, but Abyssinia is still an independent country. I Vallardi furono una famiglia di…
- Dimension: 60 x 92 cm
- Place of publication: Milan
- Year: 1935
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Out of stockUna delle più rare e ambite rappresentazioni pittoriche di New York! Questa iconica e grande veduta prospettica di New York City fu disegnata nel 1950 da Nils Hansell, all’epoca alle dipendenze di IBM come direttore del Journal of Research and Development e pubblicata dallo stesso Hansell presso la litografia Lutz & Sheinkman. La mappa è un vortice di colorate e vivaci immagini che descrivono gli edifici, le attività produttive e di intrattenimento della città americana.…
- Dimension: 84 x 64 cm
- Place of publication: North Stonington (Connecticut)
- Year: 1950
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A large very decorative Japanese world map published as sugoroku (a Japanese game which might be compared to backgammon) published as a supplement to the 1930 New Year’s Day edition of the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun newspaper. The really interesting map is drawn on a Mollweide projection instead the more commonly used Mercator projection: cartographers use the Mollweide projection when an accurate representation of area takes precedence over the accuracy of shapes. Countries are in shades…
- Dimension: 1070 x 770 mm
- Place of publication: Osaka
- Year: 1930
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Out of stockA colorful pictorial map of the world entitled Sekai Jōsei Chizu (“Map of the World Situation”), published in Tokyo in 1940 by the publisher Ōkura Shoten (大倉書店) with the aim of representing the global geopolitical situation on the eve of the Pacific conflict, at a time when the Japanese Empire was presenting itself as a new world power. The map, highly decorative and narrative, translates geopolitical reality into an immediate figurative language: the continents are…
- Dimension: 38 x 54 cm
- Place of publication: Tokyo
- Year: 1940
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The World as Satire and Vision: “Sekai Shin Manga Chōkanzu” (1924) The Sekai Shin Manga Chōkanzu (New Caricatured Bird’s-Eye View Map of the World), published in 1924 (Taishō 13), represents one of the most significant and fascinating pinnacles of Japanese pictorial and satirical cartography in the early postwar period. This work is part of the editorial and cultural tradition known as Manga Chizu (comic/caricature maps), which flourished in Japan between the end of the Meiji…
- Dimension: 73 x 105 cm
- Place of publication: Tokyo
- Year: 1924
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A huge geological map of China entitled “中华人民共和国地质图” (Geological Map of the People’s Republic of China), which is one of the most ambitious scientific syntheses produced by Chinese geology in the 20th century. This first edition, printed in 1975, represents a crucial moment in the history of national thematic cartography, as it brings together in a single systematic representation the results of decades of geological surveys conducted on a continental scale. The work was carried…
- Dimension: 158 x 106 cm
- Year: 1975
- Place of publication: Beijing
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Out of stockFine woodblock print showing a map of Japan oriented with north toward the upper right. The detailed map shows cities and towns, distances, boundaries etc… Published in 1880 ca.
- Year: 172 x 72 cm, 1880
- Place of publication: Tokyo
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Out of stockInteresting Japanese propaganda map centered on Pacific showing China, other East Asian countries, Russia, South East Asia, Australia, Pacific Islands and North America. It also includes many visual charts comparing the figures of army and navies of Japan, United States, Russia, and Great Britain. It also features the numbers of Japanese, living in each country or region and trading figures. This map shows the military and economic relations of Japan with other major countries and…
- Dimension: 75 x 104 cm
- Place of publication: Tokyo
- Year: 1935
