Wonderful decorative map of the French Alsace Wine Region, home of superb Rieslings and highly aromatic Gewürztraminer wines!
A large very decorative promotional map of the French wine region of Alsace by Willy Fisher and A. Cordier published in Strasbourg at Michel in 1950. The pictorial map shows the various cities of the region with icons of the buildings, scenic areas, manufacturing and farming. All the major towns and cities also have their coat of arms. In the right large cartouche with Bacchus. Above the names of the wines.
- Author: Willy Fischer
- Place of publication: Strasbourg
- Year: 1950
- Dimension: 100 x 63 cm
Charming map of the East Indies covering the coast of Indochina and Malaysia with the Philippines and Indonesia. The west coast of New Guinea is exaggerated and the southern coastline of Java is shown only by a dotted line. 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
- Author: MERCATOR Gerard - HONDIUS Henricus
- Year: 1648
- Dimension: 195 x 145 mm
- Place of publication: Amsterdam
Color pictorial map of Auvergne covered with vignettes drawings of people and products of the province with explanation, representing region’s historical figures and events, resources, sights, churches, important buildings, people, activities, crops, etc. Includes decorative title cartouche and compass rose. Relief shown pictorially. Published by Ode Paris in 1951 from a drawn by Jaques Liozu.
- Author: Jacques Liozu
- Dimension: 490 x 340 mm
- Place of publication: Paris
- Year: 1951
A beautiful 1917 French propaganda postcard showing in a satirical manner the German territorial expansion in Europe in the form of an octopus.
- Author: Varry
- Dimension: 90 x 140 mm
- Place of publication: Paris
- Year: 1917