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Mer de Chine - Detroit De Singapour Partie Comprise Entre Singaour et Le Dett. De Malacca d'apres les travaux du Commr. J.W. Reed de la Marine Royale d'Angleterr...
Mer de Chine - Detroit De Singapour Partie Comprise Entre Singaour et Le Dett. De Malacca d'apres les travaux du Commr. J.W. Reed de la Marine Royale d'Angleterr, execute...
Date: London, 1871
Cadran Politique au casque magique de guillaume.
A rare broad sheet about the Franco-Prussian War. Showing a large clock with in the center William I, the German Emperor, surrounded by 12 stages of the war.Printed by Gi...
Date: Paris, c.1872
Mer de Chine - Detroit De Singapour Partie Comprise Entre Singaour et Le Dett. De Malacca d'apres les travaux du Commr. J.W. Reed de la Marine Royale d'Angleterr, ...
A detailed chart of Singapore Strait, drawn from an English Chart by J.W. Reed, who surveyed Singapore and environs between 1865 and 1869, aboard the H.M.S. Rifleman.The ...
Date: Paris, 1873
La Pieuvre Germanique.
Scarce lithographed plate not dated, by Eugène Danzanvilliers, printed by Grandremy in Paris. The plate listed by Adhemar is dated 1874. Eugène Danzanvilliers was a draug...
Date: Paris, 28 Quai de la Rapée, c.1874
Histoire de la Guerre Civile en Amerique par M. Le Comte de Paris, Ancien Aide de Camp du General Mac Clellan (McClellan). ...
The maps are chromolithographs and offer a fascinating view of the Civil War battlegrounds. Vorzet made these 30 maps to accompany Louis Phillipe d'Orleans' (Comte de ...
Date: Paris. Michel Levy Freres, 1875
Trop d'Appetit par A. Le Petit.
Dated in lower right dated "Le 9 juin 1875". The drawing is representing an alligator's jaw wearing a Prussian helmet, and about to chew a globe. Alfred Le Peti...
Date: Paris, 1875
Mapa geogra´fico de la mayor parte de la Ame´rica Meridional que contiene los paises por donde debe trazarse la li´nia divisoria que divida los dominios de Espan~a y Portugal. . .
Rare first edition of the map drawn by Francisco Requena (1743-1824) after his expedition to the Amazon in order to delineate the boundary between the Spanish and Portugu...
Date: Bourquin, F. Philadelphia, ca. 1876
Région arctique.
1877 VIVIEN DE SAINT MARTIN, L. - Map of the North Pole, together with the often missing overlay with the Arctic expedition of Captain Nares.
Date: Paris, Hachette, 1877
L'Art arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire depuis le VIIe siècle jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIe.
Prisse d’Avennes was one of the foremost scholars of Arabic art and architecture of the 19th century; this work represents the summation of his studies. From the aspect o...
Date: Paris, Morel, 1877
Café des gourmands E. Guittard - Excellent.
Original chromo lithographed coffee advertising poster by Gonthier-Dreyfus & Co., for E. Guittard & Co. The company was started by Eddy Guittard, who emigrated fr...
Date: Paris, ca. 1880
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![Jules Verne Le Tour du Monde en 80 jours. [Goose game board inspired by Jules Verne's novel Tour du Monde en 80 jours.]](/uploads/cache/44919-250x250.jpg)
Jules Verne Le Tour du Monde en 80 jours. [Goose game board inspired by Jules Verne's novel Tour du Monde en 80 jours.]
Goose game board inspired by Jules Verne's novel, whose boxes are illustrated with color lithographs and the center occupied by a world map. Vignette illustrations number...
Date: Paris, ca. 1880
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Hong Kong. [Queen's Road]
Finely executed watercolor made by Henri Dieth of a charming atmospheric street scene at Queen's Road in Hong Kong. The watercolor is made after Eduard Hildebrandt (1818-...
Date: Germany, 1882
![Hongkong Piratenstrasse. [Pirate Street]](/uploads/cache/24363-250x250.jpg)
Hongkong Piratenstrasse. [Pirate Street]
Finely executed watercolor made by Henri Dieth of a charming street scene at "Pirate Street" in Hong Kong. The watercolor is made after Eduard Hildebrandt (1818...
Date: Germany, 1882
Runde Strasse in Peking.
Finely executed watercolor made by Henri Dieth of a charming street scene in Peking. The watercolor is made after Eduard Hildebrandt (1818-1869). Hildebrandt, was born in...
Date: Germany, 1882
Dutton Map of the Grand Canyon, Arizona (in 4 joined sheets)
An important 1882 map of the Grand Canyon, Arizona, published in "Atlas To Accompany The Monograph On The Tertiary History Of The Grand Canon District By Capt. Clare...
Date: Julius Bien and Co., 1882
A rare suite of 12 original etchings by Martin van Maele to the famous work by Edmond Haracourt.
A rare suite of 12 original etchings by Martin van Maele to the famous work by Edmond Haracourt. The series was published anonymously in a small edition. These etchings a...
Date: Nevers, Brussels, 1882,1883
Driving chart of Hartford and vicinity : 15 miles around.
Road map by Albert A. Hyde & Co. of Hartford and vicinity, with the Connecticut River in the center. Published by Albert A. Hyde & Co., in New York and lithograph...
Date: New York / Philadelphia, 1884
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[Voyage en Suisse / Reise die Schweiz.]
A first edition children's folding board game of Switzerland and its many places and sights to visit. Although it is missing most of its original components (dice, cards,...
Date: Switzerland, 1891
Topographical map of Hokkaido with localities of useful minerals.
Bilingual (English/Japanese) topographic map (1:1,500,000) of Hokkaido Island detailing the distribution of mineral deposits and mining sites (“useful minerals”), publish...
Date: Hokkaidōchō (Gouvernement de Hokkaidō), Sapporo, 1891
Map showing the cotton growing belt in the United States Prepared for and copyrighted by Geo. H.Mc.Fadden & Bro., cotton merchands based in Phiiladelphia, USA 1892.
The cotton-growing Belts in the Southern States for 1892 A rare map showing the cotton-growing Belts in the Southern States for 1892. Prepared for and copyrighted by G...
Date: Philadelphia, 1892
Au quartier Latin.
This image also appears on the Christmas cover of the magazine in 1900. This is the version before the magazine boilerplate was added, but "this black-and-white vers...
Date: Paris, ca. 1899
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[West Central London from Booth's Poverty Map of London]
A map of West Central London, one section (of twenty) of an extended version of the incredibly influential Poverty Map, originally published in Charles Booth's 'Life and ...
Date: London, 1900
La Lune à un Mètre [Mini poster for Paris Exposition Universelle)
Original lithograph poster for the "Paris Exposition Universelle," held between April and November 1900, which attracted 50 million visitors. In 1899, director...
Date: Paris, c.1900
COGNAC PELISSON.
Original advertising poster for the French cognac brand Pellisson, printed by Imprimerie Vercasson, in Paris, designed by Leonetto Cappiello. Leonetto Cappiello, born in ...
Date: Paris, ca. 1900
Anamorphose.
Perspective anamorphosis is an ingenious perspective technique that gives a distorted image of the subject represented in a picture when seen from the usual viewpoint but...
Date: France, ca. 1900
Anamorphose.
Perspective anamorphosis are an ingenious perspective technique that gives a distorted image of the subject represented in a picture when seen from the usual viewpoint bu...
Date: Paris, ca. 1900
COLLECTION OF HONG KONG MAPS, BOOKS & FLYERS. Including CHINA - HONGKONG surveyed by Captn. Sir Edward Belcher, in H.M.S. Sulphur 1841. Corrected to 1901.
A collection of 30 maps, prints, and publications relating to Hong Kong. Including : - BELCHER, E. Sir, An updated version of this most important nautical chart of Hong K...
Date: London, 1841 - 1901
CANTON Kong-Teheou.
Very detailed (1:1.000.000) map centered on Macao and Victoria Island, showing soundings, English, Australian, Danish telegraph lines reaching Hong Kong and extended to M...
Date: Paris, 1898 updated for june 1904
A Humorous Diplomatic Atlas of Europe and Asia. / 滑稽欧亜外交地図 / Kokkei Ō-A Gaikō Chizu.
A wonderful example of the rare 1904 Kisaburo Ohara satirical 'Octopus Map' of Europe being swallowed by an octopus (Russia). Composed at the outbreak of the Russo-Japane...
Date: Tokyo, April, 1904
Map of contour survey of the site for the federal capital of Australia.
Map of contour survey of the site for the federal capital of Australia / drawn on stone by Messrs. O. Fischer and A.G. von Stach under direction of E.S. Vautin ; drawn on...
Date: Department of Lands, Sydney, 1910
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[Lot of 2 maps] Map of part of New South Wales Australia shewing position of Commonwealth Territory / Map of New South Wales Australia…
Two maps depicting the region of New South Wales and the area designated as the future Commonwealth Territory (which later became the Australian Capital Territory).The fi...
Date: Department of Lands, Sydney NSW, 1911
Nuevo plano de la ciudad de Buenos Aires y parte del partido de avellaneda . . .
A rare detailed city plan of Buenos Aires prepared in 1912 by Ernesto Escalante. The plan depicts the city from the Partido de Avellaneda and the Villa Riachuelo to the R...
Date: Buenos Aires, 1912
Gazette du Bon Ton Art - Modes Frivolités. (1912/1913 volume)
1912-1913 BON TON - Illustrations by George Lepape, Pierre Brissaud, A. Marty, Bernard B. de Monvel, J.Gosé, Paul Méras.
Date: Paris, 1912-1913
Mappa Humoristico da Europa.
A really unusual and lovely map, published in Portugal at the outbreak of The Great War in 1914. This outbreak of war in Europe was the result of a complex sequence of ev...
Date: Lisbon, 1914
Hark ! Hark ! The dogs do bark.
This scarce political caricature map of Europe depicts the continent at the outbreak of World War I, or as it was called at the time, the Great War. Designed by Johnson, ...
Date: London, Johnson Riddle & Co.,1914
L'Impero della preda ossia la Piovra d'Absburgo.
Austro-Hungarian Octopus zinc lithographed map. A propaganda sheet attacking the Austro-Hungarian Empire, showing it as an octopus with its tentacles wrapped around the v...
Date: La Zincografia, Milan, c. 1915
Mapa Polski i Krajów Osciennych - Wydanie trzecie. Opracowal Stanislaw Max. Wydani M. Arcta.
‘The Birth of Modern Poland on a map’ - an excellent wall map of Poland and surrounding regions, published in Warsaw near the end of World War I, when Poland’s fate was u...
Date: Warsaw, [H. Sklodowski], 1918
The Wonderground Map of London.
A large and pictorially striking 'Wonderland' advertising poster on behalf of the London Underground, published in the late 1920s. The poster was very popular, and ran fo...
Date: London, 1927
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Edward Fitzgerald translation)
Edward FitzGerald, an outstanding writer who has done more than anyone to popularise English poetry. His best-known work, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859), began by be...
Date: England, ca. 1930
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
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The gouac...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The gouac...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The gouac...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
(Art-déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The gouac...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
(Art-déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The gouac...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
(Art déco gouache with winter scene of The Palace of Westminster )
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The goua...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Five Art déco labels.
5 Lithographed perfume labels laid on original cardboard sheet. A striking example of commercial artworks produced by the artist and graphic designer Robert Pichon and hi...
Date: Paris, between 1925 and 1930
Art déco label for Georges Salomon Paris.
Lithographed perfume label "Savon Cold cream N°1531 - Georges Salomon Paris" laid on original cardboard sheet. A striking example of commercial artworks produce...
Date: Paris, between 1925 and 1930
Art déco label Biette Savon - Tein de fleur.
Lithographed perfume label " Biette Savon - Tein de fleur" laid on original cardboard sheet. A striking example of commercial artworks produced by the artist an...
Date: Paris, between 1925 and 1930
Art déco label for Parfum Mary France.
Lithographed perfume label "Parfum Mary France" laid on original cardboard sheet. A striking example of commercial artworks produced by the artist and graphic d...
Date: Paris, between 1925 and 1930
Art déco label for de Neuville, Paris.
Lithographed perfume label " Savon extra fin au jasmin N°1727 " laid on original cardboard sheet. A striking example of commercial artworks produced by the arti...
Date: Paris, between 1925 and 1930
Art déco label Paul Tranoy, Paris.
Lithographed perfume label " Lilia Savon extra fin soap - Œillet (carnation) Paul Tranoy Paris N°725 " laid on original cardboard sheet. A striking example of c...
Date: Paris, between 1925 and 1930
Cunard to Canada.
Poster by Charles Eddowes Turner for Cunard lines. The poster shows The NEW SYLVANIA, one of the four new 22,000 - ton Cunarders which are the largest ever built for serv...
Date: England, ca. 1930
Art Deco gouache with Japanese scene.
Lovely art-deco gouache by Lucien Baubaut of an elaborately robed Japanese woman. The colors are simply stunning jewel-toned emerald, violet, deep purple, saffron and tan...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
20 advertising gouaches for tobacco industry.
A stunning collection of 20 original square and rectangular decorative commercial designs for the Tabaco industries in gouache and watercolor by the artist and graphic de...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Rotterdam Lloyd, Royal Mail Line. La Méditerranée - L' Egypte - Ceylan - La Malaysie - Les Indes Néerlandaises - L' Australie - L' Indo-Chine - La Chine - Le Japon.
Johann von Stein made this iconic poster for the Rotterdam Lloyd in 1930. This is the rare French version for the tour from Rotterdam to Australia.Johann von Stein (Dutch...
Date: Rotterdam, 1930
Prof. Dr. A. Krause, Neuer Handels- u. Verkehrsglobus, Verlag Paul Räth.
Art-Deco German Table Globe, on a scale of 1:38 600 000, designed by Prof. Arthur Krause with 30 centimeters in diameter, made by the company Paul Räths, Nachf. KG, Leipz...
Date: Leipzig, Paul Räth, ca. 1930
Index Geographicus Tum veteristum novae cognitae Terrae. . .
This rare and decorative advertising poster uses the world map by Presbyter Chrysanthos, who was the Patriarch of Jerusalem. In the top we see John Constantine Bessaraba ...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
North and South America At-A-Glance.
A clever device for demonstrating the statistics of each country, the Area, Population, Population per Sq. Mile, Highest Elevation, Principal River, Currency, Capital, Fo...
Date: New York & London: International At-A-Glance Chart Co. 1931
United States At-A-Glance.
A clever device for demonstrating the statistics of each state, the Area, Population, Highest Elevation, Principal River, Capital, railroad Mileage, Date Entered Union, P...
Date: New York / London: International At-A-Glance Chart Co. 1931
Histoire Socialiste.
Text includes “Imp. Centre de Propagande, des Républicains Nationaux, 102, rue Amelot, Paris (XIe), ou l’on peut se procurer cette affiche. Cette affiche ne peut être pla...
Date: Paris, 1931
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
Carte routière de l'Indochine. Des kilomètres en sécurité sur Goodrich.
Advertising poster for the brand Goodrich, showing a map of Indochina.Goodrich Corporation is a former American company specializing in civil and military aeronautical eq...
Date: Paris, ca 1934
A Hysterical Map of the Yellowstone Park. . .
A funny 1936 pictorial map of Yellowstone Park, that was 'hatched and scratched' by the American printer and humourist Jolly Elmer Lindgren. This wonderful map covers the...
Date: Spokane, 1936
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[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
Carriers of the New Black Plague.
A powerful satirical commentary on totalitarian control of speech from the first issue of Ken Magazine. "Caught here in all their peculiar beauty by the soul searchi...
Date: Chicago, 1938
A Map of the City of Philadelphia, showing the Location of the Volunteer Fire Companies. . .
A fine, large pictorial plan of the City of Philadelphia, based on the drawing by Jacob Riegel in 1937, which itself was based on an earlier work dating back to 1794. The...
Date: Philadelphia, 1938
Cunard White (Queen Mary et Queen Elizabeth de la Cunard Line).
Rare original vintage travel advertising poster for Cunard White Star, the fastest Ocean Service in the World. Stunning Art Deco style illustration of the two majestic fl...
Date: Paris, 1938
L'Europe en Sept 1939. Ille terrarum mihi angulus ridet.
A rare oversized serio-comic map of Europe at the start of the Second World War depicting stereotypes of 31 countries, as listed in the key lower right, including Brit...
Date: Bruges, Leon Burghgraeve, 1939
Rooseveld rekende verkeerd ! De vangarmen van De Dollarpoliep worden afgesneden. . .
A remarkable Anti-American Dutch World War II propaganda poster by Lou Manche, showing a pink octopus representing the United States, with its tentacles cut off in the we...
Date: The Netherlands, 1942
Manoeuvres executées du 7 au 13 mai sous le Commandement du général Koeltz,par le XIXe Corps d'Armée. . .
Poster by Gaston Ry [aka René Rostagny] (1902-1978) showing the allied manouvers in Tunesia. On May 4, 1943, the nineteenth CA offensive drew most of the German tanks to ...
Date: Alger, Bacconnier, 1943
Hammond's War Map.
Drawn and published in early 1942 by C. S. Hammond & Co. in direct response to the bombing of Pearl Harbour, this is one of the most detailed USA maps of the Pacific ...
Date: New York, 1943
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
Untitled wartime propaganda map poster depicting Roosevelt & Churchill struggling between each other over the African Continent.
This powerful image shows US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a tug-of-war over Africa. This original war poster was created by ...
Date: Paris, Bedos et Cie, 1942-1943
ADSEC in Action from Thames to Rhine.
A pictorial map showing the allied movement from London on 14 March 1944 thru the conquest of Germany. Showing the track from London along Bristol, crossing the British C...
Date: London, 1945
A Hysterical Map Of Death Valley National Monument -- And It's Looking Mighty Low
First edition Humorous map of Death Valley. "Drawn In Broken English by Jolly Lindgren," this comic pictorial map is full of puns and comic vignettes related to...
Date: Spokane, Wash., Lindgren Brothers, 1948
Plan commercial de la Région Saïgon-Cholon.
Decorative publicity plan of Ho Chi Minh City, also known by its former name of Saigon and Cholon, prepared by Ngo-Trinh, surrounded by advertisements of local stores. Th...
Date: Saigon, 1948
Prosperity - The Fruit of Cooperation.
NATO poster for European Cooperation by Brian E. Dear. On the poster the slogan "Prosperity the fruit of cooperation". The poster is showing a hand holding an a...
Date: Kühn & Zoon Rotterdam, 1950
Marshall Hjälpen.
Marshall Plan poster made by Gusta Aberg, showing barbed wire cut by pliers with slogan on pliers: Marshall Hjälpen This is one of the 25 finalists in the 1950 “Intra-Eur...
Date: Kühn & Zoon Rotterdam, 1950
