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New South Wales

steel engraved map with original outline colouring; overall 27 x 35,5 cm; centrefold as issued; some light staining; o /w vg cond. A very attractive map of New South Wales, showing the gold deposits. With decorative scroll border and small vignettes. From The Universal pronouncing Dictionary, by Thomas Wright, published by The London Printing and Publishing Company, London and New York, c1848, with maps by J. and F. Tallis, engraved by J. Rapkin. Full title: The Universal Pronouncing Dictionary, and General Expositor of the English Language : Being a Complete Literary, Classical Scientific, Biographical, Geographical, and Technological Standard; Embodying, in a Condensed and Common-Sense Form, the Signification of all the Terms used in the Langauge, the Derivation of Each Word and Familiar Explanations of the Manner in which it is Pronounced. Compiled by Competent Persons in the Different Branches of Literature and Science, under the direction of Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A., F.S.A., &c. Embellished with Portraits of Celebrated Persons, Views of Places, and a Series of Beautifully Engraved Maps; forming a Complete Atlas of the World.
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Grand Circuit des Capitales .offert par le Chocolat Menier

Jan-Loup aka Jannot colour printed map, separately published; folds as issued; some tiny holes in cross folds; o/e exc. cond. A most stunning promotional map of the World published for the French chocolate company Menier, centred on the Pacific and outlining a route across the globe, starting and finishing in Paris. Below the map is a table to stick on 120 coupons which could be found in selected bars of chocolate. Once completed and having solved three ‘enigme’ along the route, one was supposed to sent off the completed table to Menier, resulting in most maps missing the lower part. This fine example has the table still intact. Jannot aka Jan-Loup was an artist and illustrator a French magazine from the 1950s to the early 1960s, and he also designed scarves for the fashion house Hérmes. The Menier Chocolate company was founded by Jean Antoine Brutus Menier in 1816. Though not trained as a pharmacist, he sold a variety of different powders for medicinal purposes and used chocolate as an ingredient to make the medicine more palatable. In 1836, Menier was the first company to introduce blocks of chocolate, covered in greenish-yellow wrapper which became iconic for the brand. And in 1893, the company started a poster advertising campaign, created by Firmin Bouisset, showing a little girl writing the name ‘Chocolat Menier’ on a wall with a piece of chocolate. The company is still going strong though the Menier family withdrew from management in 1959.
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