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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
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...
Place & Date: Bruges, Leon Burghgraeve, 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 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Buenos Aires, 1939
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.
Place & Date: Milan, 1940
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2020
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...
Place & Date: Chicago, 1942
Selling price: $310
Sold in 2018
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...
Place & Date: New York , Time Magazine, 1944
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2017
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...
Place & Date: New York , Time Magazine, 1945
Selling price: $410
Sold in 2017
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...
Place & Date: London, 1946
Selling price: $37
Sold in 2016
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...
Place & Date: London, 1948
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2021
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...
Place & Date: Prague, 1960
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2021