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Planisfero (Tav III)
A large-format world map with a key to the steamship routes, telegraph lines and land routes in Europe. Finely engraved and beautifully colored and was prepared by Girola...
Place & Date: Rome, 1858
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...
Place & Date: Genova, Paolo Rivara fu Giacomo, 1858
Distribuzione geografica delle Pianta coltivate . . .
Uncommon world map in Mercator projection representing food resources on 3 inset maps, prepared by Francesco Costantino Marmocchi. Above the map "Geografia Commercia...
Place & Date: Genova, Paolo Rivara fu Giacomo, 1858
![[Double-hemispher World Map] Descrizione del Globo in due emisferi . . .](/uploads/cache/44079-250x250.jpg)
[Double-hemispher World Map] Descrizione del Globo in due emisferi . . .
This large-format map is finely engraved and beautifully colored and was prepared by Girolamo Petri, a lawyer who served as a senior official within the Vatican’s State...
- $1750 / ≈ €1545
Place & Date: Rome, 1858
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 ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1860
Planisphère.
One of the last decorative maps of the area. In side panels representations of the four seasons. In original out line color, from his "Atlas Universel Illustré"...
- $175 / ≈ €154
Place & Date: Paris, 1845-1860
![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/44962-250x250.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.]
This Goose game board is inspired by Jules Verne's novel whose boxes are illustrated with town views and figures and the center is occupied by a world map. Vignette illus...
- $1100 / ≈ €971
Place & Date: Paris, 1876
Hypsometrisch Overzicht der Aarde.
One of the earliest thematic world maps published in the Netherlands from "Atlas der natuurkundige aardrijkskunde. . .". prepared by Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumu...
- $50 / ≈ €44
Place & Date: Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, 1883
Kaart, voorstellende de Seculaire Rijzingen en Dalingen van den Bodem, alsmede de Vulkamen.
One of the earliest thematic world maps published in the Netherlands from "Atlas der natuurkundige aardrijkskunde. . .". prepared by Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumu...
- $35 / ≈ €31
Place & Date: Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, 1883
Kaart der Isorachiën of Lijnen van Gelijke Vloedbeweging.
One of the earliest thematic world maps published in the Netherlands from "Atlas der natuurkundige aardrijkskunde. . .". prepared by Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumu...
- $35 / ≈ €31
Place & Date: Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, 1883
Kaart van de Hoofdgodsdiensten.
One of the earliest thematic world maps published in the Netherlands from "Atlas der natuurkundige aardrijkskunde. . .". prepared by Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumu...
- $35 / ≈ €31
Place & Date: Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, 1883
Kaart der Oceanische Stroomgebieden.
One of the earliest thematic maps published in the Netherlands from "Atlas der natuurkundige aardrijkskunde. . .". prepared by Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus. The...
- $35 / ≈ €31
Place & Date: Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, 1883
Kaart der Oceanische Stroomgebieden.
One of the earliest thematic maps published in the Netherlands from "Atlas der natuurkundige aardrijkskunde. . .". prepared by Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus. The...
- $35 / ≈ €31
Place & Date: Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, 1883
Kaart der Isodynamen.
One of the earliest thematic maps published in the Netherlands from "Atlas der natuurkundige aardrijkskunde. . .". prepared by Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus. The...
- $35 / ≈ €31
Place & Date: Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, 1883
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...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1890
![[World map with oceanic currents].](/uploads/cache/46149-250x250.jpg)
[World map with oceanic currents].
Alexey Afinogenovich Ilyin was a lieutenant general and cartographer (1832-1889). In 1856, after graduating from the Academy of the General Staff, he was at the military ...
- $100 / ≈ €88
Place & Date: St. Petersburg, 1899
![[Board game] - La course autour du Monde.](/uploads/cache/48521-250x250.jpg)
[Board game] - La course autour du Monde.
Very rare French board game - no other copies known. The game consists of 50 fields linked to the lines of longitude. A globe lies in the center of the board to symboli...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1900
![[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...
- $150 / ≈ €132
Place & Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
![[Set of two maps in north and south pole projections, with orographic profile of mountains and oceans, with volcanos with Ottoman script]](/uploads/cache/44325-250x250.jpg)
[Set of two maps in north and south pole projections, with orographic profile of mountains and oceans, with volcanos with Ottoman script]
Two postcard size maps with north and south pole projections, below each map orographic profiles of mountains and oceans, with volcanos. The maps are in Ottoman script pr...
- $200 / ≈ €177
Place & 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...
- $200 / ≈ €177
Place & Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
Planisphère terrestre.
A huge (2 meters) world map representing Asia and America in the center, Europe and Africa at left and right hand of the map. Published by the Service hydrographique in 1...
- $800 / ≈ €706
Place & Date: Paris, Service hydrographique, 1902-1914
![Tutte le strade conducono a Roma. [All roads lead to Rome]](/uploads/cache/44998-250x250.jpg)
Tutte le strade conducono a Roma. [All roads lead to Rome]
Game board of the game "All roads lead to Rome" from the Fascist era, offered by the chocolate or cocoa company Talmone-Unica. Showing a world map surrounded by...
- $1500 / ≈ €1324
Place & Date: Turin, 1928
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’...
Place & Date: Osaka, 1930
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...
Place & Date: United-States, 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...
Place & Date: Tokyo, Showa 7, or 1932
Kun-yü ch'üan-t'u. 坤與全圖 (A Map of the Whole World)
Kunyu quantu 坤與全圖 (A Map of the Whole World), was first produced in 1674 by the Jesuit Father Ferdinand Verbiest 南懷仁 (1623- 1688). Commissioned by the Secon...
Place & Date: Beijing, 1674, but reprinted Seoul, 1933
AIR France réseau arérien mondial.
Original lithograph advertising planisphere cardboard from AIR France. The map is designed by Lucien Boucher and is in fact a reduced version of his larger format poster....
- $800 / ≈ €706
Place & Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, 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...
Place & Date: Chicago, 1938
Nous vaincrons parce que nous sommes les plus forts. Souscrivez aux bons d'armement.
"We win because we are the strongest. Support good armaments". Quote by the French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud. French wartime propaganda poster. color printed ...
Place & Date: Paris, M.Dechaux, ca 1939
Selling price: $105
Sold in 2019
Verzend uw telegrammen via Holland Radio Den Nationalen weg. Gemakkelijk -Zeker - Snel.
Poster showing a world map in Mercator projection. In top and bottom clocks showing the time zones. Red lines connecting The Netherlands with different major hubs in Amer...
- $380 / ≈ €335
Place & Date: The Netherland, 1939
Nous vaincrons parce que nous sommes les plus forts. Souscrivez aux bons d'armement.
We win because we are the strongest. Support good armaments". Quote by the French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud. French wartime propaganda poster. colored world map - ...
Place & Date: Pars, ca. 1939
Nous vaincrons parce que nous sommes les plus forts. Souscrivez aux bons d'armement.
We win because we are the strongest. Support good armaments". Quote by the French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud. French wartime propaganda poster. colored world map - ...
- $600 / ≈ €530
Place & Date: Paris ca 1939
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 ...
Place & Date: England, 1941
![[Mussolini Celebrates Pearl Harbor] Grande Carta Del Pacifico](/uploads/cache/48536-250x250.jpg)
[Mussolini Celebrates Pearl Harbor] Grande Carta Del Pacifico
A world map issued four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which led England and the United States to declare war on Japan, this message from Mussolini, cele...
- $500 / ≈ €441
Place & Date: Rome / Milan, 1941
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...
Place & Date: London, Alf Cooke Ltd, 1943
Freedom of the Air.
A world map packed with information about aviation and the aluminum industry.The use of aircraft in warfare, especially in the roles of close ground support and strategic...
- $230 / ≈ €203
Place & Date: United-States, 1943
World Map of the Major Tropical Diseases.
A gruesome overview of some of the world’s deadliest tropical diseases designed by Boris Artzybasheff.This graphic world map uses hideous imagery and vivid color to hig...
- $270 / ≈ €238
Place & Date: London, 1944
Map Review No.17. Eastwood Outlook.
A large double sided 'current affairs' poster. One side features a eastern hemisphere world map, and deals with matters arising in South East Asia, the Far East and Europ...
- $180 / ≈ €159
Place & Date: London, 1946
Map Review No.39. - Twenty Years of Progress, 'A Standard of Life'.
A large fully colored double-sided poster of the world colored to highlight the number of children who die each year before the age of one. This is accompanied by a short...
- $200 / ≈ €177
Place & Date: London, 1947
![[ Pictorial world map ]](/uploads/cache/44376-250x250.jpg)
[ Pictorial world map ]
Pictorial world map includes decorative title cartouche and compass rose. Drawn by Jacques Liozu, a French illustrator who drew a number of maps in this style in 1951, in...
- $220 / ≈ €194
Place & Date: Paris, 1951
Renault Savane 1951 L. La nouvelle voiture mixte 6 / 7 places 800 kg moteur
Original advertising poster for the French car brand Renault, printed by Barreau.Read more about Poster History [+]
Place & Date: Paris, 1951
Sur les ailes d'Air France découvrez le monde à votre tour.
Promotional mid-size poster of a double hemisphere world map designed by Lucien Boucher for AIR France. The map depicts the entire world in rich blues and burgundies with...
- $1100 / ≈ €971
Place & Date: Imprimerie Goosens, Paris, 1952
AIR France - Sur les ailes d'Air France découvrez le monde à votre tour.
Promotional poster of a double hemisphere world map designed by Lucien Boucher for AIR France. The map depicts the entire world in rich blues and burgundies with gold hig...
Place & Date: Perceval, Paris, 1952
AIR France - Sur les ailes d'Air France découvrez le monde à votre tour.
Promotional poster of a double hemisphere world map designed by Lucien Boucher for AIR France. The map depicts the entire world in rich blues and burgundies with gold hig...
Place & Date: Perceval, Paris, 1952
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 ...
Place & Date: Perceval, Paris, 1953
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 ...
Place & Date: Perceval, Paris, 1953
(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...
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1954
![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...
- $500 / ≈ €441
Place & Date: Paris, 1955
![Air France [poster].](/uploads/cache/44696-250x250.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...
- $500 / ≈ €441
Place & Date: Paris, 1955
Le tour du monde en 120 images, grand concours du Chocolat Menier.
Pictorial map of the world centered on the Pacific with a route around the globe, starting and finishing in Paris. The map features 120 images of explorers, plants, anima...
- $750 / ≈ €662
Place & Date: Paris, 1956
Le Tour du Monde en 120 Images Grand Concours du Chocolat Menier.
This highly unusual and rather novel pictorial map of the world was created by J.B. Jannot and published by Agence Française de Propagande as a promotional item for Meni...
Place & Date: Paris, 1956
Le pétrole dans le monde.
Poster published by the Union of Union Chambers of the Petroleum Industry. Large world map showing the oil fields in the world: United States, U.R.S.S., Venezuela, Mexico...
- $1500 / ≈ €1324
Place & Date: Paris, Imp. Lafayette. 1956
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...
Place & Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, 1959
![[TAI travel poster]](/uploads/cache/44304-250x250.jpg)
[TAI travel poster]
A whimsical travel poster for "Transport Aeriens Intercontinentaux" (TAI), published in Paris in 1960, by Luc-Marie Bayle (1914-2000). The poster depicts a twin...
Place & Date: Paris, 1960
![[TAI travel poster]](/uploads/cache/44893-250x250.jpg)
[TAI travel poster]
A whimsical travel poster for "Transport Aeriens Intercontinentaux" (TAI), published in Paris in 1960, by Luc-Marie Bayle (1914-2000). The poster depicts a twin...
- $700 / ≈ €618
Place & Date: Paris, 1960
![[TAI travel poster]](/uploads/cache/44894-250x250.jpg)
[TAI travel poster]
A whimsical travel poster for "Transport Aeriens Intercontinentaux" (TAI), published in Paris in 1960, design by François Lesourt (Périgueux, 1913 - 1997). Th...
Place & Date: Paris, Hubert Baille & Cie Paris, 1960