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AIR France - Comet De Havilland
Promotional poster attributed to Lucien Boucher showing the Comet de Havilland on a Mercator projection world map. The map depicts a pictorial map of the entire world in ...
Date: Perceval, Paris, 1953
Benedict. Arias Montanus Sacrae Geographiae Tabulam Ex Antiq
THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST STATE landmark world map, famed for its depiction of the Australian landmass.One of the earliest printed maps to depict the “terra incognita...
Date: Anvers 1571 /1572
Radio Wereld Kaart om Hollandia.
Poster showing a world map in a double hemisphere projection. Showing distances from New Guinee to other parts of the world. The year 1939 at the outbreak of the Second W...
Date: The Netherlands, 1939
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![[Magazine including pictorial world map, Carriers of the New Black Plague by William Cotton.]](/uploads/cache/43680-250x250.jpg)
[Magazine including pictorial world map, Carriers of the New Black Plague by William Cotton.]
Front cover with color illustration of a Moroccan male sheik and yellow lettering.Oversized magazine, features analysis of English justice, map of Herr Hitler's heaven (f...
Date: Chicago, April 7th, Vol.1 No.1 1938
![[World map in showing currents with Ottoman script]](/uploads/cache/44322-250x250.jpg)
[World map in showing currents with Ottoman script]
Post card size world map in Mercator projection showing the currents in Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in Ottoman script prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas : عمو...
Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
![[Set of two maps showing world in Mercator projection, with Ottoman script]](/uploads/cache/44328-250x250.jpg)
[Set of two maps showing world in Mercator projection, with Ottoman script]
Two postcard size maps showing the entire world in Mercator projection. The maps are in Ottoman script prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas : عمومولاياة...
Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
![Air France [poster].](/uploads/cache/44299-250x250.jpg)
Air France [poster].
A superb double-sided Air France folding poster, featuring bold colored graphics. Published as a serious piece of marketing put out by the airline showing off their state...
Date: Paris, 1955
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
Ortelius' third and last world map is dated 1587 under the author's signature. The earlier border of clouds has been replaced by a more intricate and elegant lattice of s...
Date: Antwerp, 1592/1601
McCormick's Map of the World.
Colorful promotional map of the 20th century spice trade.What better way to showcase the global composition of a multi-national company than with a world map? This lovely...
Date: United-States, 1931
![Les Forbans [Board game]](/uploads/cache/49165-250x250.jpg)
Les Forbans [Board game]
Game board designed by Lucien Boucher, without any randomness, which is rare for that time. The board which is cut in four parts show a world map drawn by Lucien Boucher....
Date: Paris, Perceval, ca. 1950
Universalis Cosmographia.
A very desirable cordiform (heart-shaped) world map from Johann Honter's 'Rudimentum'. The map is a reduced version of Waldseemüller's and Apianus' earlier world maps. T...
Date: Zurich, Froschauer, ca. 1546/1548
A new and correct map of the world.
The early eighteenth century was one of the most important periods for English cartography. One of the period's most intriguing world maps is this large-scale map, which ...
Date: London 1714
AIR France - Super constellation, Lockhead L - 10 - 49.
Promotional poster attributed to Lucien Boucher showing of a Lockhead L - 10 - 49 on a Mercator projection world map. The map depicts a pictorial map of the entire world ...
Date: Perceval, Paris, 1953
British Empire Trade Map WWII Eric Fraser.
Original vintage World War Two period British Empire trade map poster with the stylised text in Spanish reading: For more than two centuries the British fleets have kept ...
Date: England, 1941
![[Ritter Sundial Map of the World]](/uploads/cache/60731-250x250.jpg)
[Ritter Sundial Map of the World]
This highly unusual map projects the world from the north pole as though it were the table of a sundial, with the land masses drawn to scale in proportion to their distan...
Date: Nuremberg, 1640
Mappe-Monde dressée sur les observations de M.rs. De L'Academie Royale des Sciences ..
Scarce and early state of the world map published c. 1707, by Delisles with the imprint "Chez l’Auteur sur le Quai de l’Horloge a la Couronne de Diamans, 1700&qu...
Date: Paris, 1707
Mappamondo Carta d'Insieme.
Uncommon double hemisphere pole projection prepared by Francesco Costantino Marmocchi. Above the map "Geografia Commerciale". With a color code underneath the m...
Date: Genova, Paolo Rivara fu Giacomo, 1858
![[World and 4 continents] Carte Geographique Astronomique Chronologique et Historique du Monde.](/uploads/cache/63024-250x250.jpg)
[World and 4 continents] Carte Geographique Astronomique Chronologique et Historique du Monde.
French wall map of the world in 4 sheets published by Crépy "à l'entrée du Cloistre de St. Benoist du côté des maturins". A decorative wall map of the worl...
Date: Paris, 1720-1735
Japanese Stereotype Map of the World from 1932 Share Hitome de wakaru Manga sekai genjō chizu. At a glance: Cartoon Map of the Current World Situation. 目でわかる 漫画世界現状地圖
An extraordinary satirical map of the world was seen through Japanese eyes in the early 1930s as Japanese imperial ambitions strengthened. The map was published as an edi...
Date: Tokyo, Showa 7, or 1932
Planiglobii Terrestris Cum Utroq Hemisphaerio.
Vibrantly decorative world map surrounded by vivid engravings of natural phenomena such as waterspouts, a rainbow, earthquakes, and a volcano. Windheads occupy the starry...
Date: Nuremberg, c. 1720
AIR France - Le plus grand réseau du monde.
Created in 1959 by the artist Lucien Boucher, showing all of the DC-7 Air France Routes. The Blue Pink Poster is one of a series of eight posters commissioned by Air Fran...
Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, 1959
Carte de la Charte de L'Antique . . .
The rare French version of this decorative pictorial world map by MacDonald Gill. "This magnificent map drawn up while the Second World War still raged is already en...
Date: London, Alf Cooke Ltd, 1943
Tableau Sphéroïdal de la Terre ou Mappemonde en deux Hémispères. . .
Large steel engraving presenting the whole World in different projections, namely showing the convexity of the Earth.At the bottom a temperature contour map of the world ...
Date: Paris, 1860
Nouvelle Mappa Monde.
State 2 of this fine double hemisphere world map, from an unusual perspective, with a "Mer de L'Ouest" or "Sea of the West". Paris is located at the c...
Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784
![Carte de L'Amerique… / Carte Nouvelle de L'Europe Asie & Afrique… [Two sheets]](/uploads/cache/49267-250x250.jpg)
Carte de L'Amerique… / Carte Nouvelle de L'Europe Asie & Afrique… [Two sheets]
Rare. Two hemispheres printed on two sheets. A single decorative cartouche on each carries the title concluding with the imprint recorded above, and around each hemispher...
Date: Paris, 1661
![[Figura del Mondo universale].](/uploads/cache/48963-250x250.jpg)
[Figura del Mondo universale].
Münster's map of the World is one of the most recognized world maps of the 16th Century. Italian text edition published in Cologne without the title. This example is fro...
Date: Arnold Birckmann heirs, Cologne, 1575
Orbis Typus Universalis Iuxta Hydrographorum Traditionem.
Waldseemüller's monumental modern map of the world from the celebrated Strassbourg edition of Ptolemy's Geography, the most important cartographer of the early sixteenth...
Date: Strasburg, 1513 / 1520
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio.
Gerard Mercator's great world map of 1569 was condensed into double hemispherical form by his son Rumold. It first appeared in 1587 in Casaubon's edition of Strabo's Geog...
Date: Amsterdam, 1595-1609
The Pathways of Empire Delineated: Map Showing The Steam Comunication And Overland Routes between England, India, China & Australia…
An illuminating and attractive map that illustrates one of the foundations of British imperial power--the key trade routes by both land and sea between England and its fa...
Date: London, 1856
Nansenbushu bankoku shoka no zu.
This wall-map is a great example of Japanese world maps representing Buddhist cosmology with real-world cartography. It is the earliest one and - therefore - the prototyp...
Date: Kyoto, (Hoei 7 = Year of the Tiger) 1710
Nouvelle et exacte description du globe terrestre reveue corrigée et augmente´e suivant les derniéres relations des Anglais et Hollandois. Par Guillaume Blaeu 1645.
Extremely rare and decorative "carte a figures" world map published by Anthoine de Fer. The double hemisphere world map is surrounded by constellations of the A...
Date: Paris, 1645
Nova Orbis Tabula in Lucem edita A.F.de Wit.
According to Shirley, De Wit's map is one of the most attractive of its time. The brilliant scenes in the corners combine images of the four seasons, the elements, and th...
Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica..
The first of four states of the map. French text on verso. One of the most beautiful world maps ever engraved and one of the most influential in promulgating the Californ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630-1633
A Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection Shewing the Principal Ocean Steam Routes, the Submarine Telegraphs &c.
Charming, folding world map on Mercator's projection showing extensive steam routes and underground and undersea telegraph cables. The map is annotated in blue and red wi...
Date: London, ca. 1890
Mappe-Monde pour connoitre les progres & les conquestes..
Unusual double hemisphere map with California as an Island. Dutch text describes the expeditions and colonial possessions of the Dutch East India Company. The map origina...
Date: Amsterdam, 1729
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula.
A beautifully decorative world map taken from the 'English Atlas' by Moses Pitt and Steven Swart, based on an earlier engraved world map by Pieter van den Keere ca. 1630,...
Date: Oxford, 1680
World Flight Routes (all in Japanese).
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...
Date: Osaka, 1930
Pacific Arena
1942 FORTUNE MAGAZINE. - Second World War map covering the Pacific regions. Printed as Supplements to 'Fortune' in March 1942
Date: New York, 1942
(World map). Americus Vespucio novo te Duce Ducta Freto Ambivi Meritoqs Vocor.
Manuscript world map showing the American and African continent and the southern parts of Asia. In the Indian Ocean a large depiction of Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512) o...
Date: Italy, ca. 1954
Mappamondo.
Rare world map from "Atlante Novissimo ad uso Dei Giovani Studiosi Contenuto In Carte XXVII.", published by Giovanni Zempel in Rome, ca. 1780.The map is based o...
Date: Rome, 1780
