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Jules Verne - Board game - Around the world in 80 days - 1877

Very rare Dutch board game - no other copies known, to the "Around the world in 80 days" by Jules Verne, published in The Netherlands in 1877. No examples in Du...

Un Reclutatore in India. Papagallo No. 42. Anno VI.

British in India. Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-...

La Piovra Russa. Carta Serio-Comica Pel 1878.

Very rare political caricature map by Grossi of the nations of Europe, published in Bologna in the supplement of the newspaper "Le Perroquet / Al papagallo, N° 15, ...

[Map puzzle] Atlas.

A uncommon geographic Jigsaw puzzle. With a double hemisphere world map, Europe and France. The maps used for the puzzle are geographically sophisticated and well engrave...

Serio-Comic War Map For The Year 1877.

Fascinating political caricature map by Frederick Rose, printed by G. W. Bacon & Co., a bygone U.K. publisher of maps and atlases, of the countries of Europe, known a...

Zoological Geography.. Birds of Europe [and] over the World. Phytology & Zoology No. 6.

Original double-page engraved map (overall 55 x 66 cm.), with light original hand-coloring. As issued in The Physical Atlas... by Alexander Keth Johnstone... based on the...

LA FRANCE ELECTORALE.

History seems really to repeat itself !? A chromolithographed satyrical map, on the ousting by election of the French populist Politician, Minister of War and Member of P...

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 numbere...

El Giro del Mondo.

Goos-game with 80 numbered anticlockwise boxes, showing a journey around the world. In center a steam ship and title. I four corners the rules of the game.In box 56 the P...

La quadratura nel circolo ossia il giuoco delle alleanze.

Circular game of alliances in Europe depicting 18 European countries personified by characters in costume and in the center, St Peter's Square in Rome. Text in 2 columns ...

Nouvelle Carte de la France Indiquant les Routes, les Chins de Fer les Stations Thermales et Balneaires D'Apres les Documents les Plus Recents

A fascinating large map of France with the advertising of Browning shotguns. It was produced in Paris ca. 1900. Twelve shotguns are featured with their prices at the time...

Reise um die Welt in achtzig Tagen. Nach dem Roman von J. Verne. Ein unterhaltendes Gesellschaftsspiel.

Travel around the world in eighty days. After the novel by Jules Verne. An entertaining dice game with 80 fields, in the middle a world map. Title after the tutorial. Nei...

Face or Fortune Know Thy Self.

A most unusual item. A volvelle from Woodbury [Facial] Soap Face or Fortune - Know Thy Self with an astrological volvelle & dial on the reverse. Complete with 16 pp s...

A Humorous Diplomatic Atlas of Europe and Asia. / 滑稽欧亜外交地図 / Kokkei O-A Gaiko Chizu.

A wonderful example of the rare 1904 Kisaburo Ohara satirical 'Octopus Map' of Europe. Composed at the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War (1904 – 1905), it was modelled...

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...

Karte von Europa im Jahre 1870 nach einem französischen Holzschnitte.

Satirical illustration by Paul Hadol showing disposition of power in Europe at the beginning of 1870. Satirical print depicting a map of Europe in which the countries are...

Hark ! Hark ! The dogs do bark.

This very rare 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...

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,...

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...

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.

[6 Post cards of young woman seated on a globe ]

Complete set of 6 pictorial post cards showing young women seated on a globe. Signed "Morin". Unsent.More aboutcartographical curiosities [+]

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...

This is a Map of Speed Gibson's Adventures.

A rare map showing the (Oriental) Adventures of Speed Gibson. Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police was a radio series written by Virginia Cooke. It centres on ...

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'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...

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...

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...

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 ...