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Auction 194, Lot 481

"[Booklet with 6 Maps] La BNCI dans la France d'Outre Mer"

Subject: French Colonies in Africa & Caribbean, Aviation

Period: 1947 (dated)

Publication:

Color: Printed Color

Size:
4.9 x 7.8 inches
12.4 x 19.8 cm
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This promotional booklet was issued by Banque Nationale pour le Commerce et l'Industrie and features 6 beautiful pictorial maps, with an emphasis on French colonies. The maps include French West Africa and French Equatorial Africa; Morocco; Algeria and Tunisia; Guadeloupe and Martinique; Madagascar and Reunion; and France itself. Major towns and cities are named, and BNCI locations are indicated by the company's logo. Illustrations of native culture, wildlife, and sailing ships decorate the maps. An interesting artifact from the period preceding the decolonization of French Africa. Enclosed in embossed, decorative stiff paper covers that open to an additional map of the Atlantic.

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Condition: A

Maps are crisp and colorful. Covers have minor wear, with a small dampstain along the bottom edge of the back cover.

Estimate: $140 - $170

Unsold

Closed on 9/13/2023

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