Spectacular promotional travel poster of Madagascar, by Maurice Tranchant in 1952 and printed by G. Raidot in Paris.
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Spectacular promotional travel poster of Madagascar, by Maurice Tranchant in 1952 and printed by G. Raidot in Paris.
Spectacular promotional travel poster of Madagascar, by Maurice Tranchant in 1952 and printed by G. Raidot in Paris.
Scarce map of the harbour of Algeri on the Mediterranean. Engraved by van Loon. From Suitte des Forces de l’Europe ou Quatrime Partie de l’Introduction la Fortification by Nicolas De Fer published in Paris in 1695.
Nicolas de Fer held the title of Geographer at Louis XIV’s court. He was one of the most prolific publishers of plans of European cities in the late seventeenth century.
Decorative 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
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.
Detailed and very fine map of South Africa showing the Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles. From Atlas Spheroidal et Universel de Geographie by M.F.A. Garnier published in Paris at Veuve Jules Renouard in 1862. This atlas is exceptional for its “spheroidal” maps of the globe, showing the various continents and poles, shaded to give the effect of a sphere floating in space. [cod.1091/15]