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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
Lovely pictorial map of the United States featuring information about the varied backgrounds of the citizens and the industries in different parts of the country. The very decorative promotional map issued for the Brussels Universal Exhibition of 1958 shown on America as a multi-national, multi-cultural nation. The map is covered with pictorial images of historical sites and Americans working and playing. Labels on each state show the principal national origins of the residents, for example, Danish, Dutch and German in South Dakota. Across the top are eight figures in stereotypical native clothing (kilt, sombrero, wooden shoes). Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Alaska are shown as territories. At Bottom left the author’s signature. This map was issued as a folded map and it retains its folds.
- Author: Mary Ronin
- Dimension: 49 x 69 cm
- Year: 1958
This attractive map shows all of the continent in Zatta’s beautiful style that exemplifies his fine engraving. The map extends to include part of Central America and south to show all of Patagonia and the Straits of Magellan. The title cartouche rests in the lower left corner and features plants and fruit. The map names and delineates each political region, and is filled with place names and good detail of rivers and mountains. From Atlante…
- Author: ZATTA Antonio
- Year: 1779
- Dimension: 300 x 400 mm
- Place of publication: Venice
Charming classical pocket map of Pacific coast of Mexico. 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…
- Author: MERCATOR Gerard - HONDIUS Henricus
- Year: 1648
- Dimension: 190 x 135 mm
- Place of publication: Amsterdam