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    Magnifica grande carta geografica pittorica del mondo disegnata “secondo la proiezione di Mercatore” da Jacques de Duve e pubblicata a Bruxelles presso Les Editions De Visscher nel 1951. De Duve concepisce la carta con un fine enciclopedico e mostra tutti paesi del mondo con le proprie peculiarità storiche, produttive, sociali, architettoniche, commerciali attraverso belle e colorate vignette. L’autore usa una riuscita commistione fra modernità del tratto a lo stile classico delle antiche carte geografiche seicentesche…

    • Author: Jacques de Duve
    • Dimension: 75 x 104 cm
    • Place of publication: Bruxelles
    • Year: 1951
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    A colourful lithograph map of Belgian Congo, a Belgian colony in Central Africa between 1908 and 1960, what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Marked are cities, towns, rivers, factories, ports, Catholic and Protestant missions, people, agricultural products, mines and minerals, plants, animals, roads, railroads, airways with distances, rivers, waterways, etc. Designed by Frans Laboulais and published in Brussels at Visscher in 1949.

    • Author: Frans Laboulais (1903 - 1988)
    • Dimension: 110 x 84 cm
    • Place of publication: Bruxelles
    • Year: 1949
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    Decorative pictorial map of Luxembourg the southernmost province of Wallonia and of Belgium. This map by Philippe Dumont and J. Ado Baltus is covered with beautiful vignettes describing major towns and very nice landmarks. Published for Banque de la Societé Generale de Belgique Banque by Editions de Visscher, Bruxelles in 1950 circa.

    • Author: Philippe Dumont & J. Ado Baltus
    • Dimension: 40 x 29 cm.
    • Place of publication: Bruxelles
    • Year: 1950
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    Striking map showing the routes of Sabena Airlines throughout Africa, the Middle East, and Europe created in beautiful color patterns with the oceans surrounding it in blue tones. The map features many of the cities printed in gold, as well as the flight patterns that connect them together. The routes delineated in the map show the two main hubs of Sabena to be Brussels with Leopoldville, capital of the Belgian Congo (now Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo) with a large number of other destinations around and between them. African tribal art is used in this image as part of the design as well as the regional representation of ethnic people. Published in Brussels by Marci in 1960.

    • Dimension: 100 x 64 cm
    • Place of publication: Bruxelles
    • Year: 1960