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A colourful promotional map of French West Africa by Leon Craste designed to promote tourism and commercial development in French West Africa, which continued to operate as a political federation until 1960. Published by French Ministry of Overseas in 1951. The map shows the area from Atlantic Ocean to Chad and Cameroon and from Algeria to Togo including the colonies of Mauritania, Sudan, Senegal and Ivory Coast and some of the Portuguese territories like Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Ghana and Nigeria. Illustrations of major cities, agricultural products, natural resources and exotic animals are on display, along with an inset showing French possessions relative to the entire continent.
- Author: Leon Craste
- Dimension: 120 x 80 cm
- Place of publication: Paris
- Year: 1951
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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
A fashinating engraved map of Africa by J.B. Nolin here corrected by L- Denis with the last discoveries. Elaborate decorative cartouche. Side text in French. Published in Paris and dated second years after the French revolution. [cod.1093/15]
- Author: NOLIN Jean Baptiste
- Year: 1793
- Dimension: 470 x 650 mm
- Place of publication: Paris
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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