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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
Dettagliata carta geografica della Tripolitania e Cirenaica edita dalla Società di esplorazione commerciale in Africa e compilata dal geografo ed esploratore Manfredo Camperio. L’attività del Camperio in Africa fu di grande intensità tanto che l’esploratore fu tra i primi a portare l’attenzione dell’Italia sulle coste libiche organizzando missioni di studio, alle quali partecipò personalmente. In particolare, il Camperio fu incaricato il 7 febbraio 1881, dal Comitato della Società d’Esplorazione Commerciale in Africa, di partire per…
- Author: Manfredo Camperio (1826-1899)
- Dimension: 47 x 64 cm
- Place of publication: Milan
- Year: 1883
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A colourful lithograph map of Belgian Congo, a Belgian colony in Central Africa between 1908 and 1960, what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Marked are cities, towns, rivers, factories, ports, Catholic and Protestant missions, people, agricultural products, mines and minerals, plants, animals, roads, railroads, airways with distances, rivers, waterways, etc. Designed by Frans Laboulais and published in Brussels at Visscher in 1949.
- Author: Frans Laboulais (1903 - 1988)
- Dimension: 110 x 84 cm
- Place of publication: Bruxelles
- Year: 1949
Beautiful little map of Morocco from the Mercator Hondius “Atlas Minor” published in Amsterdam in 1648 at Jannsonius with german text on verso. In 1607 Jodocus Hondius published a reduced size version of Mercator’s “Atlas”, itself suitably titled “Atlas Minor”. The maps were copied from those of the great cartographer Mercator of around 1580-90 or were reductions of Hondius’ own maps of 1606. Almost 20 years later Joannes Janssonius commissioned a new set of copperplates…
- Author: MERCATOR Gerard - HONDIUS Henricus
- Year: 1648
- Dimension: 190 x 145 mm
- Place of publication: Amsterdam