Beautiful little map of Morocco 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 new set of copperplates to be engraved by Pieter Van Den Keere (Kaerius) and Abraham Goos. These maps were elegantly designed with decorative title cartouches, finely engraved and surprisingly detailed for their dimensions. Koeman “Atlantes Neerlandici” Me203.
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“This is one of the most decorative and popular of all the early maps of Africa” [Norwich]
- Dimension: 41 x 55,5 cm
- Place of publication: Amsterdam
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Out of stockStriking map showing the routes of Sabena Airlines throughout Africa, the Middle East, and Europe created in beautiful color patterns with the oceans surrounding it in blue tones. The map features many of the cities printed in gold, as well as the flight patterns that connect them together. The routes delineated in the map show the two main hubs of Sabena to be Brussels with Leopoldville, capital of the Belgian Congo (now Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo) with a large number of other destinations around and between them. African tribal art is used in this image as part of the design as well as the regional representation of ethnic people. Published in Brussels by Marci in 1960.
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- Year: 1960
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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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Out of stockStupenda carta geografica pittorica disegnata da Herve Baille per promuovere le rotte nell’Oceano Indiano dei nuovi transatlantici delle Messageries Maritime “Ferdinand de Lesseps”, “Jean Laborde”, La Bourdonnais” e “Pierre Loti”. La grande scena, centrata su Madagascar, Reunion, Mauritius, Comoros e il Canale del Mozambico, è dominata dai quattro transatlantici in navigazione mentre altre raffinate vignette evidenziano flora, fauna e luoghi di interesse. Frédéric Marie Joseph Hervé Baille (21 gennaio 1896 – 3 giugno 1974) è…
- Dimension: 58 x 90 cm
- Place of publication: Paris
- Year: 1950
