Paris

  • [Brescia] Gavardo

     600,00

    Large etching depicting the town of Gavardo, nestled in the hills of the province of Brescia, with in the background the pre-Alpine reliefs bordering the Chiese valley. The observer is placed on a rise overlooking the town, which stretches neatly with its churches, manor houses inserted in a beautiful rural landscape, with rows of trees and agricultural buildings. Gavardo was the scene of military clashes during Napoleon Bonaparte’s first Italian campaign in 1796. On August…

    • Author: Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti
    • Dimension: 50 x 78,5 cm
    • Place of publication: Paris
    • Year: 1835
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    Large poster map showing the origin (highlighted in shiny silver) of the ingredients for the production of Astra’s margarine. Palm and peanut oil from French West and Equatorial Africa. The coconut oil from Polynesia. Published in Paris at Courbet 1955.

    • Author: Atelier Coubert
    • Dimension: 120 x 80 cm
    • Place of publication: Paris
    • Year: 1955
  • china map
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    Rara pubblicazione separata di propaganda che mostra la carta geografica della Cina circondata da otto medaglioni con i ritratti del leader militari cinesi con Mao Tse Toung in alto al centro. La carta mostra in basso l’epilogo della guerra civile cinese con un soldato che infilza una bandiera nella schiena del generale Chiang Kai-shek. Il primo ottobre 1949 Mao Tse-tung e le truppe dell’Esercito di Liberazione del Popolo entrarono a Piazza Tienanmen, sconfiggendo definitivamente i…

    • Dimension: 48 x 36 cm
    • Place of publication: Paris
    • Year: 1949
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    Grande e non comune manifesto che mostra una rappresentazione geografica pittorica della Corsica animata da numerosi navi e aerei in arrivo e in partenza dall’isola a sottolinearne la vivacità commerciale e turistica. Disegnata da Gabriel Carriat-Roland la carta mostra gli agglomerati urbani come piccole ma realistiche vedute con in evidenza le caratteristiche principali (vedi la statua di Napoleone ad Ajaccio). In basso due grandi illustrazioni riassumo le peculiarità commerciali, flora, fauna e le tipiche abitazioni…

    • Author: Gabriel Carriat-Roland
    • Dimension: 90 x 60 cm
    • Place of publication: Paris
    • Year: 1960
  • veduta milano

    Rare tinted lithography by Léon Auguste Asselineau after I.L. Deroy. Published in Paris by Lemercier circa 1840.

    • Author: DE ROY
    • Year: 1840 ca.
    • Dimension: 370 x 595 mm
    • Place of publication: Paris
  • pictorial map world

    [Pictorial World Map]

     180,00

    Color pictorial map of the world with decorative border and coat of arms of major cities. Designed by Jacques Liozu, published by Ode Paris in 1951.

    • Author: Jacques Liozu
    • Dimension: 33 x 50 cm
    • Place of publication: Paris
    • Year: 1951
  • neuman octopus map prussia

    Striking French propaganda poster map showing Germany as a monstrous octopus threatening Europe with tentacles extending not only west to France, England, Spain and Italy, but to the Balkans and Greece, Turkey and Asia Minor, Romania and Russia. Germany is shown in different shadings of red, indicating its numerous annexations of surrounding territory since 1740, the most recent being the 1871 seizure of Alsace-Lorraine during the Franco-Prussian War making a comparison between the territorial conquest…

    • Author: Maurice Neumont
    • Dimension: 60 x 78 cm
    • Place of publication: Paris
    • Year: 1917
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    Panorama of Barcelona taken from the sea finely engraved by Harmanus van Loon. From Suitte des Forces de l’Europe ou Quatrieme Partie de l’Introduction a la Fortification by Nicolas de Fer published in Paris, 1695.

    • Author: DE FER Nicolas
    • Year: 1695
    • Dimension: 295 x 100 mm
    • Place of publication: Paris
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    Rare copper engraved map of Switzerland. Showing Cantons and other independent regions, towns, villages, landmarks, forests, rivers and mountains. Relief shown pictorially. Includes decorative cartouches and compass rose. As in the title the map shows also the Valtellina, the beautiful valley in the Lombardy region of northern Italy, bordering Switzerland. From the rare Theatre geographique de France, contenant les cartes particulieres de ses provinces. Et celles de ses frontieres & pays adjacens published by Pierre-Jean…

    • Author: Pierre-Jean Mariett, TASSIN Nicolas
    • Year: 1653
    • Dimension: 510 x 365 mm
    • Place of publication: Paris
  • A very nice aquatint view by Gabriel Lory showing the Swiss Alps with the cascade of Nant d’Arpinaz. Published in Paris at Osterwald in 1820.

    • Author: Gabriel Lory
    • Dimension: 25 x 28 cm
    • Place of publication: Paris
    • Year: 1820
  • A very nice aquatint view by Gabriel Lory showing Mont Blanc glacier at the foot of a hill with a stream flowing from it and some bare rock in the foreground; two figures on the left of the mouth of the cave and three in the right hand foreground. Published in Paris at Osterwald in 1820.

    • Author: Gabriel Lory
    • Dimension: 25 x 28 cm
    • Place of publication: Paris
    • Year: 1820
  • red cross boucher world map

    Fine very decorative 1962 Lucien Boucher pictorial map of the world celebrates the Centenary of the Foundation of the Red Cross. (1863 – 1963). The map is embellished by a large compass rose, sea monster and whales in the oceans and especially with numerous vignettes mostly showing medical services and others highlighting world cultures as New York’s skyline, native Americans, llamas in South America, a geisha in Japan, camels in North Africa, the Giza Pyramids…

    • Author: Lucien Boucher
    • Dimension: 59 x 93 cm
    • Place of publication: Paris
    • Year: 1962