20th Century

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  • A fascinating and intriguing map of the world as a board game, featuring 142 numbered squares that start and end in Paris. The map is adorned with vignettes showing flora, fauna, people, and distinctive places from around the world. It is further enriched by vibrant illustrations depicting natural phenomena like the aurora borealis, charming landscapes, and exotic ocean liners and airplanes following their routes. The four corners symbolize Asia, Europe, America, and Africa. Clocks at…

    • Author: Saussine Editeur
    • Dimension: 60 x 84 cm
    • Place of publication: Paris
    • Year: 1930
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    Striking pictorial map of post-war Paris designed by Willy Landelle

    • Author: Willy Landelle
    • Dimension: 72 x 52 cm
    • Place of publication: Anjou
    • Year: 1949
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    Beautiful topographical map of the Côte d’Azur and southwestern Alps, designed by F. Hugo d’ Alési to promote railway tourism in the region. The map extends from Briançon in the north to Monaco in the southeast and Aubagne in the southwest. There is an inset of the Marseille region in the lower-left corner. Frederic Alexianu Hugo d’Alesi, was an artist who specialized in producing ads promoting travel, particularly in the burgeoning railway industry. d’Alesi helped…

    • Author: Frederic Alexianu Hugo d'Alesi
    • Place of publication: Paris
    • Year: 1907
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    Amazing pictorial map of the world’s international short wave radio stations, with each continent crammed with imagery. The map was drawn by Walter Eckhard (1903-1982) and published in Eindhoven, 1953 by the radio division of Philips. Superimposed on the map are red circles indicating the locations of dozens of shortwave radio stations. Small drawings throughout represent genre scenes depicting the people, plants and animals. Includes detailed index to the stations on the lower margin and…

    • Author: Walter Eckhard
    • Dimension: 119 x 75 cm
    • Place of publication: Eindhoven
    • Year: 1953
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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
  • Decorative pictorial map of the Bari area in Apulia, Southern Italy. Published in Rome by Enit, Ente Nazionale del Turismo, in 1937 to advertise as depliant the Fiera del Levante. On verso useful infos to visitors.

    • Author: ENIT - Ente Nazionale del Turismo
    • Dimension: 48 x 67 cm.
    • Place of publication: Rome
    • Year: 1937
  • Portolan-style world map printed in red, green, blue, and gold, showing the voyage tracks of over twenty sixteenth-and-seventeenth-century Portuguese explorers. Less than 10 institutional examples located.

    • Author: Roberto Araujo
    • Dimension: 43 x 63 cm
    • Place of publication: Porto
    • Year: 1940
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    Carta geografica pittorica della Lombardia che riassume, attraverso vignette sul territorio, le opere di ricostruzione ferroviaria, di infrastrutture di utilità civile, nuove case, bonifiche e corsi per lavoratori e disoccupati da attuarsi con i fondi del Piano Marshall (formalmente E.R.P European Recovery Program) stanziati per la ricostruzione dell’Europa dopo la seconda Guerra Mondiale. Pubblicata a Roma dalla tipografia Apollon nel 1950 l’interessante documento era un prodotto della propaganda americana, facente capo alla “Divisione Informazioni della…

    • Dimension: 35 x 25 cm
    • Place of publication: Rome
    • Year: 1950
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    • Dimension: 22,5 x 33 cm
    • Place of publication: Rome
    • Year: 1949
  • Color pictorial map of department of Nord, France (which is part of the current Nord-Pas-de-Calais region) 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 320 mm
    • Place of publication: Paris
    • Year: 1951
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    Deliziosa carta geo-pittorica disegnata da Aldo Cigheri che mostra la provincia di Ragusa in Sicilia con in evidenza i prodotti, le costruzioni e gli elementi folkloristici più importanti e caratteristici dell’area. Pubblicata a Genova presso la litografia S.A.I.G.A. nel 1956 a cura dell’Ente Provinciale per Turismo di Ragusa. Aldo Cigheri (1909–1995) è stato un pittore italiano che ha svolto un ruolo di fondamentale importanza nel panorama artistico XX secolo soprattutto nel campo dell’illustrazione pubblicitaria. Con…

    • Author: Aldo Cigheri
    • Dimension: 23 x 31 cm
    • Place of publication: Genoa
    • Year: 1956
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    Decorative whimsical map of Region Nord-Pas de Calais, published by Conseil Régional du Nord to promote tourism in the area.

    • Author: Guy Hallart
    • Dimension: 100 x 67 cm
    • Place of publication: Tourcoing
    • Year: 1985