Mediterranean Collection

Reids Palace Hotel, Madeira advertisement, 1928
Advertisement for Reids Palace Hotel, Madeira boasting happy sunny days, no rain and unequalled sea bathing besides many other comforts and advantages. 1928

Map of The Byzantine Empire
A map showing the extent of the Byzantine Empire - the predominantly Greek-speaking continuation of the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Date: 1800

Map of the Ancient Persian Empire, encompassing Greece to the north west, Arabia to the south east, Egypt and Libya to the south west and deep in the Caucasus in the north east. Date: 1798

Summer on the French Riviera, eternal sunshine. Tourism poster from French company PLM, with a beach, sunshades and beautiful blue Mediterranean sea. Date: December 1930

Map of the Empire of King Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon 356323 BC), from Greece in the west to India in the east. Date: 1807

Poster advertising Antibes
Poster for PLM advertising Antibes in the South of France

Juan les Pins travel poster
Poster advertising the fashionable resort of Juan les Pins on the Cote d Azur in the Alpes Maritime region of South East France

Map of Ancient Egypt. Date: 1814

Positano, Amalfi Coast, Campagnia, Italy
Panoramic view of Positano, Amalfi Coast, Campagnia, Italy

Juan les Pins travel posters
Travel poster advertising the fashionable resort of Juan les Pins on the Cote d Azur in the Alpes Maritimes south east region of France

Map of Africa illustrating travels of explorers
A map of Africa which illustrates the travels of the explorers Livingstone, Stanley and Cameron

Poster for Lake Garda, Italy
Poster advertising Lake Garda, Italy -- an idyllic scene

Map of Africa illustrating travels of explorers
A map of Africa which illustrates the travels of Livingstone, Stanley and Cameron. Date: 19th Century

Union-Castle Holiday Tours
Advertising travel poster for Union-Castle Holiday Tours depicting a colourful Mediterranean scene with white balcony and blue sea, offering reduced return fares to Madeira, the Canary Islands

Benghazi, Libya - Lungomare
Benghazi, Libya - the " Lungomare" (sea-walk) built by the Italians. Date: circa 1950s

Map of Cyprus - The Island of Venus. circa 1930s

Metope. Parthenon marbles depicting part of the batlle betwe
South metope XXX. Parthenon marbles depicting part of the batlle between the Centaurs and the Lapiths. 5th c. BC. Athens. British Museum. London. United Kingdom

Poster, Beaulieu sur Mer, French Riviera. Date: circa 1930

Poster advertising trains to the Cote d Azur
Poster for French railways, advertising services to the Cote d Azur, with its warm winters and dry summers. Trains call at Menton, Monte Carlo, Nice, Juan les Pins, Cannes, St Raphael, Hyeres

Poster advertising Sainte Maxime on the Cote d Azur
Poster advertising the coastal town of Sainte Maxime on the Cote d Azur in the South of France, for winter as well as summer holidays

Malta - Valletta - a traditional Dghajsa boat. Date: circa 1908

Principality of Monaco: the Casino and hotels (Monte Carlo). Date: 1923

HMS Ajax, British battleship, at Malta
HMS Ajax, British King George V-class battleship, seen here at Malta. Date: circa 1919

PLM Cote d Azur poster
Travel poster advertising the French Cote d Azur reached by the Paris Lyon Mediteranee railway on a sleeper train

Marseille poster
French PLM poster for Marseille on the Cote d Azur. A steam train and a charabanc full of people look out on the blue Mediterranean

Leonidas I (died 480 BC). King of Sparta. Monument in Spart
Leonidas I (died 480 BC). Also known as Leonidas the Brave was a Greek hero-king of Sparta, the 17th of the Agiad line King of Sparta[

Axel Munthe / Anacapri
AXEL MUNTHE Home of the Swedish physician and writer on Anacapri, Italy Date: 1857 - 1949

View of the Lebanese Coastline at Beirut Date: circa 1910s

CRESQUES, Jafuda (1350-1410); CRESQUES, Abraham ( -1381). Catalan Atlas. 1375. Third and Fourth Leaves. Map of the world known in the 14th c. (Finisterre and the Mediterranean)

Imperial Airways Poster, seaplane Scipio
Imperial Airways Poster, showing a diagrammatic drawing of the seaplane Scipio, one of the new Kent class, for use on the trans-Mediterranean service. 1931

Holy Monastery of Kykkos, Troodos Mountains, Cyprus: mosaic, Jacob wrestling with an angel, Genesis 32 and Hosea 12 Date: 2011

Poster advertising French railways to Mediterranean coast
Poster advertising French railways to the Mediterranean coast, from Marseilles to Menton

Sun Bathers
Two sunbathers set in Cap d Antibes, South of France

Nice, France - Les Ponchettes, le Chateau and Mont Boron
Nice, France - Les Ponchettes (formerly row of small houses of local fishermen, nowadays mostly Galleries), the Chateau and Mont Boron. circa 1930s

Major Herbert George Brackley - Superintendant
Major Herbert George Brackley, Superintendant, Imperial Airways, right, receives the Certificate of Airworthiness for Canopus from an Air Ministry Official in October 1936 prior to its leaving for

Map of Italian Peninsula, Islands of Corsica and Sardinia and Adriatic coast. Engraving. 16th century

Malta - Valletta - Interior of St Johns Co-Cathedral Date: circa 1920s

HMS Exmouth - Royal Navy predreadnought battleship
HMS Exmouth - a Duncan class predreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy. HMS Exmouth was launched in August 1901 and served as a flagship for various fleets including the Mediterranean Fleet

Malta - Lacemaking
Lacemaking in Malta during WWI. Malta was not on the front line of World War I (unlike World War II) but did participate in many ways nevertheless

Map of the Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal (prior to the Portuguese Revolution in 1910). Date: circa 1908

Hawker Sea Hawks parked adjoining the angled deck area on board HMS Ark Royal during operations in the Mediterranean. March 1957. Date: 1957

Lebanon / Sidon
The former Crusader fortress at Sidon, Lebanon. Sidon was originally the most important Phoenician trading centre in the Mediterranean. Date: 1930s

Adana, Turkey - The Bridge
Adana, capital of Adana Province in south east Turkey. The ancient Antioch on the Sarus. One of the largest cities in Turkey - the gateway to the Cilician Plain

Valletta / Malta / Yacht
View into the Dockyard Creek in the Grand Harbour showing some of the luxury sailing (and powered) craft moored there

Map of Corsica. Italian engraving. 16th century

Larnaca Castle, Cyprus
The Fort of Larnaca, Cyprus - erected by the Turks in 1625 Date: circa 1910s

Island of Thassos, Greece Date: circa 1930s

Porthcurno Cable Station
Porthcurno cable terminal in Cornwall, built by the Falmouth Gibraltar Malta Telegraph company

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