La Route des Alpes: Art Deco promotional poster for an early bus service from Nice to the French Alps by PLM (Paris-Lyon-Mediterannee Railways).

Holland-Amerika Line: ‘Rotterdam – New York’. Early promotional shipping poster.

Indochine Francaise: Promotional poster by Lucien Boucher for the Association Nationale pour L’Indochine Francaise to advocate for continued French rule over Indochina after WW2.

Planisphere: World map poster with a border proclaiming “Zones de la Liberation” in reference to the end of World War II

Les Bobards: WWII German propaganda poster aimed at discrediting Radio Londres broadcasts in occupied France. Grotesque birds representing De Gaulle, freemasons, and Jews swarm from a radio tower in London.

Savoie: PLM (Paris-Lyon-Mediterannee Railways) promotional poster for Savoie department in the French Alps

World map satirising President Reagan’s Cold War worldview in the late 1980s.

Australia: Promotional poster with a Koala or Native Bear. After the Anglo-Antipodean artist Eileen Mayo.

Air France: Promotional poster for Air France. Double hemisphere celestial map with a globe showing Air France’s international routes in the foreground. The world is surrounded by astrological figures. One of a series of pictorial maps drawn by the famous artist Lucian Boucher for Air France. His style is immediately recognisable and his use of graphic and colour is unmistakeable and now highly collectible. Laid down on archival linen.

Racing: From one of the leading American lithographic and engraving establishments.

Maroc Touristique: Map promoting tourism to Morocco commissioned from the Rabat based french artist Jean Gaston Mantel. With Arabic and French text.

Cote d’Azur: Panoramic map from Frejus to Menton with decorative border. Issued as a promotional brochure to encourage visitors to the coast.

Les Animaux a Fourrures dans le Monde: Unusual world map poster showing the world’s fur-bearing animals. By Lucien Boucher for Maison Simon Freres furriers.

London Transport: The Londoner’s Transport Throughout the Ages. Quad Royal poster showing the development in the means of travel Overground & Underground.

Reseau Aerien Mondial: Map of the world on Mercator’s Projection by Lucien Boucher. This is one of a series in the style of the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century with multiple vignettes and illustrations. Political divisions are kept to a minimum with the planisphere adapted to showcase the reach and spread of the network of Air France routes. This example is from a run of 300.

Geological Chart : Comparative chart of geology.

Delhi: Indian State Railways. View of a part of the Lal Qila (Red Fort). Published in Bombay.

Hawaiian Air: Promotional poster showing Hawaiian Air’s routes, distances and durations throughout the islands.

Amerique du Sud: Promotional poster by Lucien Boucher for Air France’s routes to South America.

Paquebot ‘Antilles’: Cross-section of the French cruise ship operating in the tropics for the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique

Royal Mail Promotional poster for the Atlantis (the redeployed Andes after its service in WWI). Shoesmith was a naval cadet, later working on the Royal Mail line before becoming a successful marine artist.

Sur les Ailes d’Air France Decouvrez le Monde a Votre Tour: Promotional poster of a double hemisphere world highlighting air routes and surrounded with illustrations of European explorers by Lucien Boucher.

De Jour et de Nuit – De Nuit et de Jour – Dans Tous les Ciels. Promotional poster advertising Air France’s 1938-39 routes. An illustrated map of the constellations overlaid on a faint world map traced in gold. The Air France routes are traced by bright orange lines with the cities on the routes are in gold boxes. Air France’s signature hippocamp (winged seahorse) sits prominently above the title, and golden Zodiac signs decorate the border.

Cambodia. Vintage travel poster published by the Office de Tourisme Indochinois to promote tourism to Cambodia. Printed in Hanoi by D’Extreme Orient.

Nature in Descending Regions: Comparative chart of the World’s oceans and the different species that live within them.

Fairyland As Described by the Four Winds:

Fliegen sei mit (Fly with Me) – The Rainbow: German promotional poster advertising the launch of Pan Am’s famous Rainbow Service across the Atlantic. In 1952, Pan Am revolutionised the airline industry by introducing their Rainbow Service, the first all-tourist (what became known as economy) flights across the Atlantic opening air travel to the mass market.

Temperate zone : Comparative chart showing the environment and townscapes of a temperate zone – that which lies between the subtropics and the polar circles.

India: Fly to India. Promotional poster for B.O.A.C in association with Quantas Empire, South African and Tasman Airways.

Reseau Aerien Mondial: Map of the world on Mercator’s Projection by Lucien Boucher promoting Air France’s routes from Paris to South America, Africa, and Asia.

Poisonous Mushrooms: Thirty one posionous species. Smith, originally an archaeologist, became known for his illustrations and writings on fungi and influential in the relatively new branch of biology dedicated to their study, mycology.

Tropical Zone: Comparative chart showing the flora, fauna, and inhabitants of a tropical environment.

Chamonix: Le Plus Haut Telefrique du Monde, Francaise des Chemins de Fer de Montagne promotional poster for the first Aiguille du Midi-Mont-Blanc cable car in assoctian with PLM (Paris-Lyon-Mediterannee Railways). By Henri Dormoy.

Nature in Ascending Regions: Comparative chart of the mountains, volcanoes and accomplished summits across the world.

Barcelona: La Capital del Mediterraneo. Art Deco poster of a biplane decorated with the Spanish flag passing Gaudi’s famous church La Sagrada Familia.

Extreme Orient:: Promotional poster for Air France’s routes in French Indochina. By Lucien Boucher.

Britannic Cunard: Liverpool Route to USA and Canada. Turner produced a number of designs for the Cunard Line and Transport for London.

Le Plus Grand Reseau du Monde: Promotional poster showing the latest iteration of Air France’s route network including the brand new non-stop route between Paris and New York.

Promotional poster for Air France by Lucien Boucher centred on Europe, Africa, and Asia, and showing the international air routes.

Nova et Vetera: Air France promotional map poster after Lucien Boucher. Centred on Africa, Asia, and Europe with Air France’s routes overlaid in red and highlighted with gold, and with vignettes of traditional methods of travel, ships and sea monsters in contrast to the aeroplanes overhead to reinforce the titular theme of “old and new”.

L’Amrique du Nord: Poster map of North America promoting Air France, and its partnership with multiple American regional airlines. By the artist Plaquet.

Reseau Aerien Mondial: Air France poster advertising the airline’s global services with the iconic hippocamp logo emblazoned in red. By the artist Plaquet.