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Jacquin Paris label.
Lithographed label for the famous Parisian chocolate brand CHOCOLATERIE JACQUIN (1846-1982). A striking example of commercial artworks produced by the artist and graphic...
Date: Paris, between 1925 and 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
Régions Polaires.
Eight maps on one sheet, showing the North and South Poles, with adjective regions. Taken from "Atlas Universel" by Chesneau and Ch. Bonnesseur. Engraved by R. ...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, 1931
Candide ou l'Optimisme / Traduction de l'allemand de Mr le Docteur Ralph.
Illustrated title page and 12 colored plates by Jean-Jacques Dubas, untrimmed copy with good margins, no foxing. One of 450 copies (N ° 385) on Vélin d'Arches.
- $135 / ≈ €116
Date: Paris, Robert Telin. 1931
The theory and practice of layout en Page.
The First English Edition of the lavishly printed Bible of "Moderne", soon to be called art deco. Thanks to Tolmer's work the deco style persisted until the Sec...
- $1100 / ≈ €944
Date: London, The Studio, 1931
Mapa geologic de les serres de Llevant de l'illa de Mallorca.
Geological map showing part of the island Mallorca Manacor, Son Severa, Capdepera.. After a design by D.Ferrá. Dibuxá, in lower right corner: D.Ferrà. Dibuxá.Provenan...
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: Palma, 1932
Mapa geologic de les serres de Llevant de l'illa de Mallorca.
Geological map showing part of the island Mallorca Felanitx, Santanyi, Porto Cristo, Porto Colom.., including a legend with geological and topographical signs. After a de...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Palma, 1932
Environs de Raguse (Dubrovnik). Deuxième Feuille. Canal de Calamota (Kolocep).. [277]
This large-scale coastal chart shows the stretch of the Dalmatian coast between Slano as far as the island of Kolocep, the southernmost inhabited island in Croatia. With ...
- $200 / ≈ €172
Date: Paris [1877] corrected to 1932
(Publicity mini poster) Riz Soleil Levant.
Original stone lithograph in-store small format display for Riz Soleil Levant, or basically Rice of the Rising Sun.The Chinaman is pouring a box of this rice over the ima...
Date: Paris, ca.1933
Shares of 100 francs. # 065320
This historic document features an ornate border with vignettes of Mercury (the goddess of trade) and a woman holding a hammer, resting before an anvil. The logo of Iodac...
Date: Paris, 1933
Mer Adriatique. Côte Orientale. De l'Ile Meleda à Antivari.. [3552]
This large scale coastal chart shows the stretch of Dalmatian coast between the island Mljet in Croatia as far as Ulcinj (Montenegro). With latitude and longitude scales,...
- $200 / ≈ €172
Date: Paris [1877] corrected to 1934
[Original Chinese advertising poster for ] Hataman cigarette brand.
This poster, an advertisement for Hataman Cigarettes from the 1930s, melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography. It d...
- $200 / ≈ €172
Date: Shanghai, 1934
Germaine Kerjean. (Show poster)
Lithograph poster for the music show Germaine Kerjean, made by Pierre Donga. printed by Imp. Lithographiques, created by Pierre Donga.Donga was the pen name of the French...
- $750 / ≈ €644
Date: Paris, 1934
[ Original Chinese advertising poster for ] Coat Clark British company.
This poster, an advertisement for Coat Clark British company from the 1930s, melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithograp...
- $300 / ≈ €258
Date: Shanghai, 1934
[ Original Chinese advertising poster for ] [Google translate: Vendor Yiwei Shikou Supervisor Store Baishun Chengyan]
This poster, an advertisement from the 1930s, melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography. It depicts a beautiful woma...
- $300 / ≈ €258
Date: Shanghai, 1934
[ Original Chinese advertising poster for ] [Google translate: The picture of Hong tao Carpet garden]
This poster, an advertisement from the 1930s, melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting. It depicts a young woman posing. Google translate: "Americ...
- $300 / ≈ €258
Date: Shanghai, 1934
[ Original Chinese advertising poster ]
This poster, an advertisement from the 1930s, melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography. It depicts a young woman dr...
- $300 / ≈ €258
Date: Shanghai, 1934
Mer Adriatique. Partie Sud.. [3976]
This large scale coastal chart centered on the southern part of the Adriatic sea. Showing the Dalmatian coast between Split in Croatia as far as the northernmost tip of C...
- $200 / ≈ €172
Date: Paris [1883] updated for 1935
Welcome to old San Diego, birthplace of California 1769.
Publicity leaflet for "Manuel's Restauranté" in the Casa de Pedrorena. On one side a pictorial map of San Diego and "Tourist Map of Old San Diego", w...
- $75 / ≈ €64
Date: San Diego, ca. 1935
Bartholomew's Touring Map of New Zealand.
A full color map. 'Reduced Survey Map of New Zealand, colored to Show Height of Land'. With insets of Auckland Harbour, Wellington and Port, Christchurch and Port Lyttelt...
Date: Edinburgh, 1935
Favor, Chocolat très fin de Favarger.
Original advertising poster for the Swiss chocolate brand Favor, and printed by Fiedler, la Chaux-de-Fonds.Read more about Poster History [+]
- $450 / ≈ €386
Date: France, ca. 1935
Bruxelles Avril Novembre 1935 Exposition Universelle Le Vieux Bruxelles.
Advertising poster for the Universal Exhibition "Old Brussels" of 1935 April - November , made by Thiriar James and printed by Ets. Gen. D'Imp., in Belgium.Thir...
- $400 / ≈ €343
Date: Brussels, 1935
Sur la route triomphante d'Arles aux Baux - A Fontvieille visitez le moulin et le musée Alphonse Daudet.
Advertising poster for PLM created by the French artist Léo Lelée . " Sur la route triomphante d'Arles aux Baux " . " A Fontvieille visitez le moulin et ...
- $900 / ≈ €773
Date: Paris, G. de la Vasselais, 1935
Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire ( Laboccetta )
Sought-after edition of the famous poems of the great French writer, in the called definitive, posthumous edition of 1868, to which the censored titles have been added. I...
- $250 / ≈ €215
Date: Paris, Gründ, 1935
Poster, rare state before text . HAPAG
Original art deco cruise ship travel poster promoting HAPAG Line to Colombo, Singapore, Manilla, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama. Great illustration by the German ...
- $1250 / ≈ €1073
Date: Hamburg, ca. 1935
Regelmässiger passagier - und - fracht - dienst nach Ostasien Hamburg - Amerika Linie. (HAPAG)
Original art deco cruise ship travel poster promoting HAPAG Line to Colombo, Singapore, Manilla, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama. Great illustration by the German ...
- $1900 / ≈ €1631
Date: Hamburg, ca. 1935
South Carolina.
A fun, humorous, whimsical map of South Carolina by Ruth Taylor White. With vibrant colors.The state is filled with delightful cartoonish characters, some pursuing assort...
- $125 / ≈ €107
Date: Boston, ca 1935
The Famous Hysterical Map of Yellowstone Park, including a few minor Changes.
A lovely whimsical map of America's Yellowstone Park, published about the time of President Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal" for America in 1936. To emphasise th...
Date: America, ca 1936
Paris 1937 - Exposition Internationale
Promoting poster for the International Exhibition of Arts and Techniques in Paris in 1937, made by Beaudoin - Lods and printed by Imp. Jules Simon. S.A. Paris, on behalf ...
- $850 / ≈ €730
Date: Paris, 1937
l'Indochine Française
Map of Indochina published ca 1937 by Fernand Nathan, a well-known publisher of school books, maps and material for teaching geography.
Date: Paris, ca. 1937
Moscow.
A nice colored lithographic town plan of the Russian capital, in English, published in 1938 in order to promote the U.S.S.R's cultural image overseas during Stalin's term...
- $750 / ≈ €644
Date: Moscow, ca 1938
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 / ≈ €687
Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, 1938
New China Map.
Very large and detailed map of China (1:6,000,000) printed in Shanghai, June 27th 1938 by JIN-SHIN GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE.The title and place names in Chinese and Engli...
- $900 / ≈ €773
Date: Shanghai, June 27th 1938
Rusia Europae U.S.S.R.
Detailed map of Russia. Unique manuscript map of Russia. Award-winning manuscript card, prepared by Antonio Raggio for the 11th Congreso de la Union Postal Universal (Wor...
- $450 / ≈ €386
Date: Buenos Aires, 1939
Grecia.
Unique manuscript map of Greece. Award-winning manuscript card, prepared by Antonio Raggio for the 11th Congreso de la Union Postal Universal (World Postal Congress) Expo...
- $250 / ≈ €215
Date: Buenos Aires, 1939
America del Sur Filatelica.
Unique manuscript map of South America. Award-winning manuscript card, prepared by Antonio Raggio for the 11th Congreso de la Union Postal Universal (World Postal Congres...
Date: Buenos Aires, 1939
Republica Argentina.
Unique manuscript map of Argentina. Award-winning manuscript card, prepared by Antonio Raggio for the 11th Congreso de la Union Postal Universal (World Postal Congress) E...
Date: Buenos Aires, 1939
Republica Mejico
Unique manuscript map of Mexico. Award-winning manuscript card, prepared by Antonio Raggio for the 11th Congreso de la Union Postal Universal (World Postal Congress) Expo...
- $200 / ≈ €172
Date: Buenos Aires, 1939
Carte géologique de l'Indochine à l'échelle du 1/500 000e. Pak-Nam Bang-Kok.
Map of Indochina Sheet N ° 16. Covers the area from Paknam (Thailand) to Kompong-Som Bay (Cambodia). On both sides a legend indicates the sedimentary and crystalline lan...
- $130 / ≈ €112
Date: Indo Chine, 1939
L'enfer de Joseph Prudhomme. Savoir Deux cougnottes et La grisette et l'étudiant. Monnier Henry.
With frontispiece: "In Paris, without the permission of Roy Louis-Philippe". One of the 300 copies printed on Montval vergé (our copy is numbered 68). With 8 e...
- $400 / ≈ €343
Date: Paris, 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 / ≈ €515
Date: Paris ca 1939
Isla Martinica.
A beautiful hand colored, hand drawn map of the French Caribbean island of Martinique, prepared for the Buenos Aires 1939 Philatelic Exhibition, with separate text with d...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Buenos Aires, 1939
A cartograph of Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay Golden Gate International Exposition.
Ruth Taylor White's large format map of Treasure Island and the San Francisco Golden Gate Exposition Fairgrounds, published in 1940.The map provides an aerial panorama of...
- $200 / ≈ €172
Date: San Francisco, 1940
Daily Telegraph War Map of The Far East. [No.11]
A large and very detailed map of The Far East "Specially drawn for the Daily Telegraph by 'Geographia' Ltd". Printed in full color. Map extends from the norther...
- $125 / ≈ €107
Date: London, ca. 1940
US ZONE. Bavaria, Hesse, Wurtemberg, Baden.
An unusual decorative pictorial map, from the years immediately following World War II, depicting the American Zone of Occupation in southern Germany. It portrays rural ...
- $450 / ≈ €386
Date: Munich, 1940
Confiance... Ses Amputations se Poursuivent Methodiquement.
Propaganda poster, produced under the NAZI collaborating Vichy French regime and designed to inspire revulsion and hatred of the English among the French, while frequentl...
Date: Paris, ca. 1941
[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 / ≈ €429
Date: Rome / Milan, 1941
Laissez-nous tranquilles.
French propaganda poster printed by G. Mazeyrie and created by Jé. Dates back to the Vichy political regime. Very popular for the promotion of the National Revolution, t...
Date: Paris, 1941
Sheet VI East coast of Australia. New South Wales Tacking Point to Coffs Islands surveyed by Comr. Fredk. W. Sidney R.N. . . 1862 - 1864. . .
Large chart representing East coast of Australia with New South Wales including Tacking Point to Coffs Islands surveyed by Comr. Fredk. W. Sidney R.N. from 1862 - 1864. F...
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: London, 1939-1942
Alabama. Official Highway map 1942.
Folding road map of Alabama. Published in Montgomery, Alabama by Paragon Press. Mileage chart and six city plans in margin; verso includes text and photos. Scale [ca. 1:8...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Alabama, Paragon Press, 1942
Singapura em poder das Japoneses. [Singapore in Japanese Power]
An uncommon large Portuguese language and produced broadside celebrating the Japanese invasion of Singapore during WWII. It was published on behalf of the German Army Hig...
- $750 / ≈ €644
Date: Portugal, ca 1942
Pacific AMPOL Map
A large and very colorful World War II era map of the Pacific Ocean produced with the complements of the Australian Motorists Petrol Co. Ltd. The map itself shows the Pac...
- $1000 / ≈ €858
Date: Australia, ca 1942
Australia, Coral Sea and Great Barrier Reefs shewing the inner and outer routes to Torres Strait. Sheet 1. . .
Large scale chart representing the Great Barrier Reef and the Coral Sea showing routes to the Torres Strait. Sheet 1.First published at the Admiralty 1860 with new editio...
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: London, 1869-1943
East coast of Australia. New South Wales. Sheet VII, Coffs Islands to Evans Head surveyed by Comr. Fredk. W. Sidney R.N. assisted by E.P. Bedwell & J.T. Gowlland, Masters & S. Guy, 2nd Master R.N. 1864-5
Large chart representing East coast of Australia with New South Wales including Coffs Islands to Evans Head surveyed by Comr. Fredk. W. Sidney R.N. First published at the...
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: London, 1907-1943
Sheet V East coast of Australia. New South Wales Evans Head to Danger Pt. surveyed by Comr. Fredk. W. Sidney R.N. . . 1864-5. . .
Large chart representing East coast of Australia with New South Wales including Evans Head to Danger Pt. surveyed by Comr. Fredk. W. Sidney R.N. from 1864 - 1865. First p...
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: London, 1866-1943
Australia - East coast Queensland Keppel Bay and Islands surveyed by staff Commr. J.Jeffery. . . 1864. . .
Large chart representing East coast of Australia with Queensland including Keppel Bay and Islands surveyed by Comr. J.Jeffery in 1864. First published at the Admiralty 3r...
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: London, 1866-1943
Cote d'Ivoire.
Very decorative, informative map of the Ivory coast. The map is filled with buildings, animals, a ship, figures and two locals in their typical dress.In lower left corner...
- $90 / ≈ €77
Date: France, 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 / ≈ €197
Date: United-States, 1943
Madagascar.
Very decorative, informative map of Madagascar. The map is filled with buildings, animals, figures and two locals in their typical dress.In lower left corner "Imprim...
- $90 / ≈ €77
Date: France, 1943
Formosa.
A large poster size map of the island of Formosa (Taiwan) off the Chinese mainland, prepared as a News Maps special edition during WWII. There is a red diagonal measureme...
- $750 / ≈ €644
Date: New York, 1943
Sheet XI East coast of Australia - Sandy Cape to Keppel isles surveyed by Staff Commr. E.P. Bedwell, Navg. Lieutt. E.H.S. Bray, and Navg. Sub. Lieutt. E.R. Connor, 1870
Large chart representing East coast of Australia from Sandy Cape to Keppel isles surveyed by Staff Commr. E.P. Bedwell. With two inset charts of Pancake Creek. Scale 1:24...
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: London, 1883-1944
Sheet XII East coast of Australia Queensland Keppel Isles to Percy Isles. . .
Large chart representing east coast of Australia's Queensland showing Keppel Isles to Percy Isles with relief shown by hachures, spot heights and bathymetric soundings. S...
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: London, 1932-1944
[Escape map] N°34 Southeast Asia + Northeast Asia.
A fine "survival map" or "escape map" of China was compiled for the U.S. Army Air Forces. South China side has an inset of Taiwan (Formosa). These lig...
- $125 / ≈ €107
Date: Washington, D.C. 1944
China Southeast Coast.
A very large US Army and Naval map of the south east coast of China, published during the second world war. Map extent is from Kweichow Province in the west, to Kwangsi P...
- $1250 / ≈ €1073
Date: [New York], 1944
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 / ≈ €232
Date: London, 1944
Australia, E. coast - Queensland Percy isles to Whitsunday I. chiefly from a joint Admiralty & Colonial survey by Staff Commander Bedwell, R.N. 1873 to 1879 [1945]
Large chart representing East coast of Australia with Queensland from Percy isles to Whitsunday Island, with inset of Beverley Islands Anchorage. Scale 1:74,000. in lower...
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: London, 1882-1945
Australia, E. coast - Queensland Moreton Bay
Large chart representing East coast of Australia with Moreton Bay in Queensland.After a survey by Comr. J.Jeffery, etc. in 1865. New edition at the Admiralty 1870. With ...
Date: London, 1882-1945
Hong Kong and New Territory - Tung Kwu.
A third edition air survey map of this portion of Lantau Island, to the west of Hong Kong, performed by the RAF. Originally published in 1931, then with minor corrections...
- $300 / ≈ €258
Date: London, 1945
Hong Kong and New Territory - Tai O.
A third edition air survey map of this mainland portion of north west Hong Kong and New Territory, performed by the RAF. Originally published in 1931, then with minor cor...
- $400 / ≈ €343
Date: London, 1945
Map of the Occupied Areas. Carte des Zones d'Occupation. Der Besatzungs-Zonen mit Neuen Postleitgebieten. Karta Okkupacionnych Zon [in Cyrillic.]
A poster map of Germany and Austria showing the Allied occupation zones as agreed at the Potsdam Conference after the end of the Second World War, with an inset detail of...
Date: Frankfurt-am-Maine: Atlanta-Service, 1946
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 / ≈ €155
Date: London, 1946
MEMORANDUM Vlade Demokratske Federativne Jugoslavije po pitanju Juliske Krajine i drugih jugoslavenskih teritorija pod Italijom.
Memorandum of the government of the Democratic Federative Yugoslavia concerning the questions of the Jilian March and other Yugoslav territories under Italy.Julian March ...
- $300 / ≈ €258
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 / ≈ €172
Date: London, 1947
Ile de France.
Touristic poster by Jean Moles depicting the Ile-de-France region, printed in France and published for the French government. Figurs Compiègne, Chantilly, Meaux, Fontain...
- $300 / ≈ €258
Date: France, 1947
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
Cambridge.
Though the city had endured significant damage during the Second World War, which ended only a few years prior to publication, there is little indication of the destructi...
- $550 / ≈ €472
Date: London, 1948
Air France Rayonne sur le monde.
Advertising poster from Air France, the french airline company. The poster has always occupied a special place in Air France's communication. With a heritage of more than...
Date: Imprimerie Goosens, Paris, ca. 1940-1950
Mulhouse La Place
Etching of the town square of Mulhausen in Alsace, France. Collectors stamp in lower left margin, numbered 209/250 copies, signed in pencil in the margin "Rolle"...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: France, ca. 1950
The East Asiatic Company.
Very decorative and uncommon 'The East Asiatic Company' poster by Kolind. Depicting a sailor loading or unloading a ship.The East Asiatic Company (EAC) came into being in...
- $650 / ≈ €558
Date: Egmont H. Petersen, København, 1950
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 ap...
- $500 / ≈ €429
Date: Kühn & Zoon Rotterdam, 1950