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Art of the Map: Around the World

By J Walters on 07/22/2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Scan the wonderful illustrations on this promotional map of Europe and Asia, produced in 1956 by Menier Chocolate, and drawn by J.B. Jannot, (aka Jan-Loup). This artist was also an illustrator for a French magazine from the 1950s to the early 1960s, and he also designed scarves for […]

Quick Hits: Killer Lobsters

By J Walters on 07/16/2019 • ( Leave a comment )

This detail from one of the earliest known maps of southern Africa was expected to fetch up to $5,000 at an auction last month but went for $87,500 – perhaps because of the killer lobsters attacking shipwrecked sailors.