colourful large promotional map by Leon Craste designed to promote tourism and commercial development in Cameroon. Published by French Ministry of Overseas in 1950 at Imprimerie A. Karcher. The map shows the area from French West Africa (A.O.F.) and Nigeria to French East Africa and from Lake Chad to Gabon and Spanish Guinea; it is richly decorated by lovely illustrations of African animals (elephants, rhinos, lions, hippos, giraffes etc.) and a native people going about their daily activities. An inset map in the top left quadrant, set among an African village, situates Cameroon on the continent. All around a fine geometrical frame in African style.
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Out of stockDecorative pictorial map of North-Western Africa by Lucien Boucher published by the French bank Crédit Lyonnais. Includes color coded list of agencies and coat of Arms on upper right corner. The lovely vignettes show major buildings and landmarks, parks, roads, cities and towns, etc. Credit Lyonnais, founded in 1863, can be regarded as the archetype of the banking modernization desired by Napoleon III. Title framed with decorative cartouche.
Design by Lucien Boucher who is a famous commercial poster artist and illustrator born in Chartres in 1889 and died in 1971. Graduated from the Ecole de céramiques de Sèvres, he began his career as cartoonist for the satiric newspaper Le Rire. In the 1920s he worked actively as poster designer for the movies and the advertising industry. He designed a significant number of lithography’s inspired by the surrealism style. He’s very well known of a series of posters (advertising & world map) designed for Air France- Dimension: 95 x 69 cm
- Place of publication: Paris
- Year: 1950
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Carta economica della Tripolitania e Cirenaica dedicata a S.A.R. il Duca di Genova. Pubblicata dalla Società di esplorazione commerciale in Africa sotto la direzione del Capitano M. Camperio …
More Info € 200,00Dettagliata 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…
- Dimension: 47 x 64 cm
- Place of publication: Milan
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Out of stockA 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.
- Dimension: 120 x 80 cm
- Place of publication: Paris
- Year: 1951
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Out of stockA large pictorial map by J. Choain Audiberti of French Equatorial Africa showing several African countries including Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic and the Belgian Congo. The map is illustrated with lovely vignettes of people, farming, trees, mountains and animals like tigers, camels, horses, antelopes, ostriches, giraffes, elephants. It is completed by ships at sea, cars driving through the desert, planes flying over the map; at bottom a fine cartouche with a traditional African village scene surrounding the larger map of Africa. Published in Paris, 1950
- Dimension: 120 x 80 cm
- Place of publication: Paris
- Year: 1950
