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Rare pictorial world map designed in the style of 17th century maps by the British painter and artist Gordon Davey (1912-1992) for Pakistan Airlines in 1960. The map is an interesting and curious mix between the classic geographical representations of the golden age of explorations (the wind rose, the numerous cartouches, sea monsters, galleons) and close modernity: in each country are depicted lovely little vignettes with ancient and modern reference: see for example the Roman…
- Author: Gordon Davey
- Dimension: 45,5 x 25,5 cm
- Year: 1960
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First edition of the decorative double hemisphere pictorial map prepared by Luc-Marie Bayle for TAI Transport Aeriens Intercontinentaux with two decorative compass rose oriented with the north to the upper margin. The hemispheres are surrounded by fun images of various explorers in divers modes of transport a hot air balloon, early and later forms of aeroplanes, rowing boats, sailing ships, galleons, whales and fish. TAI routes are shown in red. The Transport Aeriens Intercontinentaux company began as a charter airline in June 1946 in association with the Messageries Maritime Shipping Company.
- Author: Luc Marie Bayle
- Dimension: 51 x 73 cm
- Place of publication: Paris
- Year: 1948
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Colorful folded pictorial map of the solar system showing the the space exploration, created shortly after the Apollo 8 mission, the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit and the first to reach the Moon, orbit it, and return. The map is accompanied by a second separate folded sheet describing in detail (with nice design of each ship, information about carrier missiles and space suits, etc.) the most important missions from 1957 – 1968. The very interesting and decorative map shows the trajectories of both manned and unmanned spacecraft, the path of the solar system, Moon orbit, planetary orbits, relative sizes of the planets, satellites and space crafts. Includes colored reference at the lower margin. At least three editions of this map were published, this being an example of the second. The differences between the three editions revolve around the presence of Apollo missions: the first edition was published before the Apollo program began launching missions, while the second includes Apollo 8, the third edition includes the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon.
- Author: Hallwag AG
- Dimension: 84 x 111 cm
- Place of publication: Bern
- Year: 1968
A large very decorative Japanese world map published as sugoroku (a Japanese game which might be compared to backgammon) published as a supplement to the 1930 New Year’s Day edition of the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun newspaper. The really interesting map is drawn on a Mollweide projection instead the more commonly used Mercator projection: cartographers use the Mollweide projection when an accurate representation of area takes precedence over the accuracy of shapes. Countries are in shades…
- Author: Osaka Mainichi Shinbun
- Dimension: 1070 x 770 mm
- Place of publication: Osaka
- Year: 1930