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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
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
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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
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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
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'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
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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
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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
Sold in 2020
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