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Out of stockSeparately issued version of Federico De Agostini’s stunning map of Italy, first published in 1946 by Italgeo here in the Arti Grafiche Ricordi edition published in Milan, 1989. The illustrator of the pictorial map is Vsevolod Petrovic Nicouline: it shows vignettes of structures, nature, activities, products, crops and many towns and cities labelled. Embellished by elegant calligraphy, compass rose and a Neptune in the sea. Vsevolod Petrovic Nicouline (1890-1962) was a renowned Russian painter, printmaker,…
- Dimension: 80 x 64 cm.
- Place of publication: Milan
- Year: 1989
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Out of stockNon comune bella guida in francese edita dal Vespa club d’Italia per promuovere i viaggi nel Bel Paese e scoprirne le bellezze in Vespa. La divertente guida è corredata da 14 carte geografiche pittoriche disegnate dall’illustratore Nicouline che mostrano le regioni italiane con le loro peculiarità e luoghi da visitare. Le carte sono completate dalle tabelle con l’indicazione delle salite e le altitudini da raggiungere nei vari itinerari. Il testo prevede anche i luoghi tipici per le soste, i rifornimenti, le officine specializzate e i cartelli per una guida sicura in Italia.
- Dimension: 21,5 x 12 cm
- Place of publication: Milan
- Year: 1957
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Out of stockItalie Gastronomique. Carte des Principales Spécialités Gastronomiques des Régions Italiennes
More InfoStriking Art Deco map of the culinary delights of Italy by Umberto Zimelli highlighting the food and wine found throughout Italy.
- Dimension: 66 x 48 cm
- Place of publication: Rome
- Year: 1931
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This curious and uncommon pictorial map was commissioned to the artist N. Nicouline by ED.A.S. of Rome, the organizing body for the Holy Year of 1950, and was published in Milan in 1949. In it, Nicouline depicts Italy by highlighting its cathedrals, sanctuaries, and the birthplaces of saints, each identified with refined illustrated vignettes. The entire composition is inspired by old maps, combining the classical style of 17th-century cartography with an approach reminiscent of medieval…
- Dimension: 51 x 67 cm
- Place of publication: Milan
- Year: 1949
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Out of stockA clever preprinted envelope for use by Japanese Imperial military, listing and illustrating the battles and victories of the Imperial forces. A remarkable envelope in that as it is unfolded two sticks pop up with a string strung between them. Little paper flags hang from the string including those of Fascist Italy, Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany, and Vichy France. The background is a map of the world with vignettes of battle scenes including two mobile…
- Dimension: 23 x 48 cm
- Place of publication: Tokyo
- Year: 1943
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Out of stockA wonderful and rare poster promoting tourism in Italy, showing the peninsula as a perspective view and with very interesting annotations highlighting the moments, the productive activities, the new resources, the social and economic changes that allowed Italy to recover after the Second World War. Designed by Arti Grafiche Menaglia and published in Rome in 1956 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Italian Embassy in the United States based in New York.
- Dimension: 100 x 70 cm.
- Place of publication: Rome
- Year: 1956
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A beautiful guide in 48 pages to the gastronomic delights of Germany richly illustrated by Herman Schneider. Published in Berlin in 1953. In the end, folded, a fine pictorial map of Germany.
- Dimension: 58 x 40 cm
- Place of publication: Berlin
- Year: 1953
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Out of stockItalian 1916 edition of the propaganda world map showing the British Empire at war published by Roberts & Leete. The map is surrounded by illustrations and figures showing the increase in the size of the British Army and Navy between 1914 and 1916, contributions of the “Overseas Army,” changes in the “Industrial Army” and the “War of Munitions” and the approximate amount of territory occupied by the Central Powers and the Allies on August 2nd,…
- Dimension: 38 x 51 cm
- Place of publication: London
- Year: 1916
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Uncommon anti-German propaganda postcard printed in occasion of the entry into the war of Italy during the first World War.
The Empire Austro-Hungarian is depicted as an octopus that with its tentacles it subjugates various territories such as the Bohemia, Galicia, Trentino, Istria, Croatia Slavonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Albania. On the left the explanation of the lovely anthropomorphic map: “Italians, if we do not want to become slaves of the hanger, let us all be united in one will and with one word: Outside the Germans!”. Published in Milan at La Zincografica in 1915.- Dimension: 9 x 14 cm
- Place of publication: Milan
- Year: 1915
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Out of stockDivertente carta geografica pittorica dell’Italia disegnata da Fausto Borrani e pubblicata a Brescia dall’Editrice la Scuola nel 1950. La carta mostra attraverso deliziose vignette le peculiarità produttive, storiche, gastronomiche e turistiche di ogni regione. L’apparato decorativo è completato dalla bella rosa dei venti che contempla fiori e frutti tipici del Bel Paese. Una delle poche rappresentazioni pittoriche a mostrare il Territorio Libero di Trieste, lo Stato indipendente istituito nel 1947 come da accordi nel trattato…
- Dimension: 42 x 53 cm
- Place of publication: Brescia
- Year: 1950
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Finely executed pictorial map of Algeria and Tunisia published in 1940 by the Banque National Pour Le Commerce et L’Industrie. The map illustrates a number of coastal towns, rivers, mountains and wildlife. Cities with bank branches display the B.N.C.I. logo. Decorated with sailing galleons and waves in stunning translucent silver.
- Dimension: 44 x 54 cm
- Place of publication: Paris
- Year: 1940
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Out of stockpictorial map of the French Riviera with Monaco and Corsica by Octave Poissons. Published in Nice, 1948.
- Dimension: 61 x 42,5 cm
- Place of publication: Nizza
- Year: 1948
