20th Century
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Out of stockCarte Touristique de Madagascar et Dependances Dresse sous la Direction de Urbain Faurec Conservateur du Musee de Tananarive
More InfoSuperba e rara grande carta geo-pittorica in 6 fogli uniti e riportati su tela pubblicata dal Service Geographique de Madagascar nel 1940 quando l’isola era ancora una colonia Francese. La carta mostra indicazioni pratiche per gli spostamenti come le principali vie di comunicazione, i fiumi, le foreste e le altezze in metri dei rilievi ed è ricchissima di vignette che rappresentano le peculiarità, edifici storici, flora e fauna del Madagascar. Completata in alto a sinistra…
- Dimension: 106 x 200 cm
- Place of publication: Tananarive (Madagascar)
- Year: 1940
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Out of stockFascinating propaganda poster displaying the Mussolini government’s plan to address the issue of communication routes in Sicily. The map depicts the island with clearly highlighted road and rail connections, categorized by color to indicate their operational status, planned developments, and ongoing construction. Additionally, the map includes indications of naval routes from Palermo to Naples, Cagliari, Libya, and Tunisia. It offers an intriguing opportunity to examine the evolution of transportation in Sicily. For example, it’s noteworthy…
- Dimension: 30 x 45 cm
- Place of publication: Milan
- Year: 1930
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Out of stockA colourful lithograph map of Belgian Congo, a Belgian colony in Central Africa between 1908 and 1960, what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Marked are cities, towns, rivers, factories, ports, Catholic and Protestant missions, people, agricultural products, mines and minerals, plants, animals, roads, railroads, airways with distances, rivers, waterways, etc. Designed by Frans Laboulais and published in Brussels at Visscher in 1949.
- Dimension: 110 x 84 cm
- Place of publication: Bruxelles
- Year: 1949
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Out of stockPictorial world map produced in 1940-50 by Gabriel Loire and Marcel Maillard, as gameboard. The game consists of a map taking the North Pole as its center, and points defining cities that are connected via tracks. There are depictions of peoples and animals on the map. The players collect valuable materials such as coal, petrol, coffee, tea, rubber, and fur.
- Dimension: 55 x 55 cm
- Place of publication: Chartres
- Year: 1950
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Out of stockLarge poster designed in 1970 by Alain Cornic to promote the renowned wines of the Côte d’Or, the Burgundy region in France centered around Dijon. The right side shows a pictorial map of the area embellished by vignettes with historical buildings along with differently colored grape clusters marking the wine production zones. The left side features an allegorical depiction of the wine-making process and includes a portrait of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Count of Buffon, a notable…
- Dimension: 145 x 98 cm
- Place of publication: Paris
- Year: 1970
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Out of stockAmazing pictorial map of London and surrounding areas advertising the bus services from the city to the Home Counties. Central London is surrounded by a city wall, and the towns and villages around are highlighted with scrolls. First published in 1928 by Waterlow & Sons this is the smaller edition printed by John Bartholomew in Edinburgh, 1978. Leslie MacDonald Gill (6 October 1884 – 14 January 1947), commonly known as MacDonald Gill or Max Gill,…
- Dimension: 89 x 74 cm
- Place of publication: Edinburgh
- Year: 1978
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Out of stockDecorative pictorial map of North-Western Africa by Lucien Boucher published by the French bank Crédit Lyonnais. Includes color coded list of agencies and coat of Arms on upper right corner. The lovely vignettes show major buildings and landmarks, parks, roads, cities and towns, etc. Credit Lyonnais, founded in 1863, can be regarded as the archetype of the banking modernization desired by Napoleon III. Title framed with decorative cartouche.
Design by Lucien Boucher who is a famous commercial poster artist and illustrator born in Chartres in 1889 and died in 1971. Graduated from the Ecole de céramiques de Sèvres, he began his career as cartoonist for the satiric newspaper Le Rire. In the 1920s he worked actively as poster designer for the movies and the advertising industry. He designed a significant number of lithography’s inspired by the surrealism style. He’s very well known of a series of posters (advertising & world map) designed for Air France- Dimension: 95 x 69 cm
- Place of publication: Paris
- Year: 1950
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A beautiful pictorial map of Cyprus by the Greek artist Spyros Vassiliou and published in Athens in February 1965 by the Government Press and Information Office. The map depicts famous mythological places and describes historical events through refined vignettes. On the lower right, a cartouche in classical style shows the population density divided by Turks and Greeks, while a second insert on the upper left highlights Cyprus’s position in the world. At the bottom, a…
- Dimension: 69 x 53 cm
- Place of publication: Athens
- Year: 1965
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Out of stockGrande carta geografica pittorica della Germania concepita in collaborazione da Fritz Hölzel (topografia), Karl-Heinz Schelling (illustrazioni), Manfred Langhans-Ratzeburg e pubblicata a Darmstadt nel 1954 con la direzione di Karl-Otto Gassdorf. La mappa mostra l’intera nazione “dalle Alpi al mare” con centinaia di deliziose vignette a sottolineare gli aspetti storici, architettonici, industriali, produttivi e turistici della Germania. Il sottotitolo fa presente che si tratta della parte prima della mappa poichè seguirà una seconda parte (si noti anche il piccolo richiamo nel margine destro fra le lettere F e G) con la descrizione del territorio lungo il confine con la Polonia, carta che per motivi di opportunità politica non vedrà mai la luce.
- Dimension: 86 x 123 cm
- Place of publication: Darmstadt
- Year: 1954
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Out of stockColor pictorial map of the world showing travel Lufthansa’s routes and connections with Lufthansa plane flying over map of the world. Map representing landmarks, major cities, and people. Includes compass rose decorated with Lufthansa logo.
- Dimension: 46,5 x 72 cm
- Place of publication: Berlin-Schonefeld
- Year: 1962
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Out of stockInteresting pictorial map of Southeast Asia, Oceania, Australia, and the Pacific published by Keiu Hatano in 1944. Centered on Philippines, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea the map extends to Alaska and the entire eastern coasts of the Americas. Below there are two inserts explaining the several vignettes on the map; One of the keys pertains to war and includes symbols representing naval and air force bases, active and sunken ships. Not included within these keys…
- Dimension: 50 x 70 cm
- Year: 1944
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Out of stockDiese Weltkarte zeigt die Arbeit des Menschen und die Schätze und Wirtschaftsgüter der Erde
More InfoGrande e dettagliatissima carta pittoresca del mondo disegnata da F. Heinrichsen che mostra attraverso deliziose vignette l’ingegno e l’operosità dell’uomo e le caratteristiche di tutte le aeree della Terra: accanto a ogni toponimo sono infatti riportate le caratteristiche del luogo come per esempio il tabacco a Cuba, il rum e lo zucchero nelle isole caraibiche, oro e diamanti in alcune aree dell’Africa, petrolio in Arabia, le famose olive di Creta o le vignette degli agrumi…
- Dimension: 114 x 66,5 cm
- Place of publication: Stuttgart
- Year: 1947
