Divertente carta dell’Italia divisa in regioni rappresentate come figure antropomorfe vincitrice nel 1908 del concorso geografico del Giornalino della Domenica, deliziosa pubblicazione per fanciulli, di Luigi Bertelli.
Il giornalino della Domenica fu un settimanale creato il 24 giugno 1906 da Luigi Bertelli, alias Vamba, nome tratto da Ivanhoe.
Scrissero per il giornalino, oltre allo stesso Vamba, scrittori e scrittrici celebri quali: Edmondo de Amicis, Luigi Capuana, Grazia Deledda, Ada Negri, Emilio Salgari, Antonio Beltramelli, Luisa Macina Gervasio (nota come Luigi di San Giusto). Nel 1925, confluì nel Giornalino della Domenica, comparendovi come un inserto autonomo, la rivista Giro Giro Tondo, fondata nel 1921 da Antonio Beltramelli.
Le illustrazioni erano eseguite dai migliori disegnatori dell’epoca quali: Antonio Rubino, Giuseppe Biasi, Mario Mossa De Murtas, Filiberto Scarpelli, Umberto Brunelleschi, Marcello Dudovich, Sergio Tofano.
Dopo alterne vicende ed interruzioni cessa definitivamente le pubblicazioni nel 1927.
- Author: Luigi Bertelli
- Dimension: 36 x 27,5 cm
- Place of publication: Florence
- Year: 1908
Striking map of Varese by Umberto Zimelli highlighting the interesting places and typical products throughout the area drawn in typical futuristic manner. One of the most interesting and decorative map of this area in northern Italy.
- Author: Umberto Zimelli
- Dimension: 47,5 x 34 cm
- Place of publication: Milan
- Year: 1949
First edition of Reinecke’s map of the Western Pacific Ocean, Australia, Southeast Asia, etc. published by the Geographisches Institut in Weimar in 1801. Neu Holland is named, along with a New South Wales. The coastline of Australia is incomplete. New Zealand is shown as two islands. Hawaii is shown. Reinecke’s General Charte von Australien was republished five times between 1801 and 1820 and with each edition the latest information was added with new place names…
- Author: REINECKE Johann Christoph
- Year: 1801
- Dimension: 450 x 600 mm
- Place of publication: Weimar
Color pictorial map of Central and Eastern Europe from Greece to Poland, Baltic and Russia, with decorative title cartouche and borders, depict countries, regions, major cities, industries, agriculture and wildlife. Includes decorative compass rose oriented with the north to upper left margin. Relief shown pictorially. Published by Ode Paris in 1951 from a drawn by Jaques Liozu.
- Author: Jacques Liozu
- Dimension: 410 x 560 mm
- Place of publication: Paris
- Year: 1951