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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...
Place & Date: Netherlands, 1877
Selling price: $1075
Sold in 2016
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-...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1878
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, ...
Place & Date: Bologne, 14 avril 1878
[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...
Place & Date: Paris 1880
Selling price: $100
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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...
Place & Date: London, 1877-1880
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2009
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...
Place & Date: Edinburgh, Glasgow, ca. 1880
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2020
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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1889
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
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...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1880-1890
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2021
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...
Place & Date: Milan, Stab. A.Bertarelli & C., 1890
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2020
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 ...
Place & Date: Turino, ca. 1892
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2020
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...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1900
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2017
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...
Place & Date: Germany, ca. 1900
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2022
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...
Place & Date: New York ca 1900
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2022
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...
Place & Date: Tokyo, March, 1904
Selling price: $5000
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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...
Place & Date: Tokyo, April, 1904
Selling price: $4750
Sold in 2023
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...
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1910
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2018
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...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1910
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2021
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...
Place & Date: Hamburg, Fuchs, 1914
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...
Place & Date: London, Johnson Riddle & Co., 1914
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,...
Place & Date: Japan, Germany, Austria, 1898 - 1914
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2017
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...
Place & Date: Lisbon, 1914
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 ...
Place & Date: Milan, ca.1915
Selling price: $960
Sold in 2019
[Flag] Honor a los vaientes viva Espana.
Place & Date: Spain, c.1920
Selling price: $200
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[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 [+]
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1920
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2018
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 ...
Place & Date: London, 1929
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2012
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.
Place & Date: London, 1929
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2017
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...
Place & Date: London, 1929
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2019
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...
Place & Date: Vanves (France), ca. 1930
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2019
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...
Place & Date: London=, 1933
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2022
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 ...
Place & Date: America, ca 1937
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
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...
Place & Date: Uruguay, ca. 1965
Selling price: $50
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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...
Place & Date: Sydney, 1972, 2012
Selling price: $8000
Sold in 2022
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 ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1890
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2020