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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...

Giuoco Dell'Oca Geografica.

An attractive and rare playing board for a “Goose game” designed to teach the geographical places of Italy.The Game of the Goose is a race game wherein players move t...

Atlas Geographique. (Cover of a Puzzle).

A separate front board of the presentation case of a geographical jigsaw puzzle. The front board is a fine example of period design, with five beauties respectively symbo...

An interesting lot of World War I propaganda including some cartoons with map topics.

A group of War Maps & Propaganda items, including magazine titles, post cards, propaganda, etc. Humoristische Karte von Europa im Jahre 1914 " by Lehmann-Dumont,...

L'Impero della preda ossia la Piovra d'Absburgo.

Rare anti-German propaganda printed in occasion of the entry into the war of Italy during the first World War. The Empire Austro-Hungarian is depicted as an octopus that ...

[Flag] Honor a los vaientes viva Espana.

Pleasure Island.

Pleasure Island: Being A Plan in the Old Manner of the Lake Island in Canada which Mr Winston Churchill is said to covert.From Punch, September 11th 1929. An amusing map ...

Pleasure Island.

Pleasure Island: Being A Plan in the Old Manner of the Lake Island in Canada which Mr Winston Churchill is said to covert.

Pleasure Island : Being A Plan in the Old Manner of the Lake Island in Canada which Mr Winston Churchill is said to covert.

From Punch, September 11th, 1929.A satirical map attacking Churchill in his "Wilderness Years." In May of 1929, the Conservative government failed to gain reele...

Le voyage du missionnaire. [board game]

A Goose game board with in four corner missionary scenes in the four continents and in center "N°. 60 Arrivée à la Mission florisante", with Asians people he...

The Stock Exchange London 1933.

A beautiful and whimsical map, chock full of delightful small caricature vignettes, humorously depicting the 'goings on' in the financial market in London's City of Londo...

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...

L'Intesa Cordiale.

Cover for an Italian caricature book cover, from 1940 by Enrico Gianeri (Gec). "Gec L’INTESA CORDIALE". Signed and dated on the stone lower right.

The Histomap of Evolution.

To make evolution more easy to understand, and facilitate a life to students - John B. Sparks, who created the Histomap of religion and Histomap of world history, also cr...

Wacht am Rhein.

Map depicting the German, Dutch, French border line. Design by Robert Macfarlane Chapin Jr.. In left hand side : Enlargement of original map drawn for TIME The Weekly New...

Counter attack.

Map depicting the German, Dutch, French border line. Design by Robert Macfarlane Chapin Jr.. In left hand side : Enlargement of original map drawn for TIME The Weekly New...

National Savings.

An English National Savings advertising poster, issued just after the second world war. Shows a mythical island treasure map with a slogan underneath extolling the virtue...

The Mapmaker.

Satirical condemnation of the Axis leaders by a Polish-Jewish cartoonist.Issued in a 1942 edition of Esquire Magazine, this image by the talented artist Arthur Szyk shows...

Carte de l'Indochine au 1 : 2.000.000. Carte ethnolinguistique.

Map showing Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, prepared under the direction of "l'Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient". Relief shown by spot heights. With a colored ke...

Christoph Columbus Genuensis and Santa Maria.

This is the rare 1960's original Artia Prague pop up children's pop up book of the Columbus ship the Santa Maria, design by the artist Vojtech Kubašta.When opened: 325...

Four sides advertising globe for Incal-Flex.

Advertising for Calzado Counter INCAL-FLEX by FUNSA of Uruguay. This two piece advertising object opens to form a terrestrial globe. It was mend to be placed on the resel...

A unique 78 inches (2 meters) diameter relief globe shows the physical features under the oceans.

This unique relief globe with a diameter of 2 meters (78.7 inches) and an overall height, including a frame, of 235 cm (92.5 inches) shows the physical features under the...

INFLUENCE DE L'INFLUENZA SUR L'EUROPE. [The influence of Flu on Europe]

A 1890's rare chromolithographed humouristic map on a flu pandemic in Europe. Published by the French satiric paper 'Le Troupier' in Paris.The largest nineteenth-century ...