A beautiful 1917 French propaganda postcard showing in satirical manner the Prussia’s territorial expansion in Europe in the form Octopus. Published in Paris by Varry Editeur.
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A beautiful 1917 French propaganda postcard showing in satirical manner the Prussia’s territorial expansion in Europe in the form Octopus. Published in Paris by Varry Editeur.
€ 150,00
A beautiful 1917 French propaganda postcard showing in satirical manner the Prussia’s territorial expansion in Europe in the form Octopus. Published in Paris by Varry Editeur.
Lovely engraved map based on the cartography by C. Franz Radefeld (1788-1874) showing in unusual map the Latvia with insets of St. Petersburg and Tsarskoye Selo the residence of the imperial family now part of the town of Pushkin and of the World Heritage Site. From the “Meyer’s Neuester Zeitungs Atlas” published by Bibliographischen Instituts in Hildburghausen in 1849-52. The innovation of this work is that almost all maps had small inserts showing richly detailed maps of major cities and their
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A fine miniature map of Europe from “Theatro del Mondo” the famous plagiarised version of Ortelius’ pocket atlas published specifically for the Italian market by Pietro Marchetti. First printed in Brescia this is the really rare Venetian edition of 1667. Italian text on verso. [543/15]