Large French liner menu with an incredible choice of dishes.

This is the menu of December 31, 1961 aboard the liner "Flandre". The menus were different every day.

This liner made crossings between Europe and North America between 1952 and 1962 for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique.

Large vintage map of the French colonies in 1910 (as Martinique, Guadeloupe, Guyane, etc.) from a French atlas of the 1910s. This map on two pages measures 46 x 37 cm and forms the front of the document.

These maps show the world as it was in 1910s...

Beautiful care or beauty product labels - Early 20th century.

A funny animal illustration by French painter and illustrator Ray-Lambert dating from the 1930s.

Vintage French postcard with a bouquet of roses from 1930s.

French engraving representing a porcupine and bears dating from the middle of the 19th century.

This engraving is probably the result of a reissue of the encyclopedia on wildlife of Buffon.

Set of small black and white 10 photos of the city of Nîmes from the 1950s.

French engraving representing a moose and chamois by the drawer Victor Adam dating from the middle of the 19th century.

Jean-Victor Vincent Adam, born in Paris on January 28, 1801 and died in Viroflay on December 30, 1866, is a French painter and lithographer. He has illustrated numerous works and his drawings have been interpreted in engraving by Antoine François Gelée, Émile Giroux and Jean-François Pourvoyeur.

This engraving is probably the result of a reissue of the encyclopedia on wildlife of Buffon.

Vintage French postcard with a young child with a basket of flowers from 1900s.

Vintage French postcard with some flowers from 1940s.

French vintage postcard of Saint-Alban-les-Eaux by the painter Louis Tauzin from 1900s.

Louis Tauzin, born July 21, 1842 in Barsac and died August 30, 1915 in Royan in 1915, is a French landscape painter and affichiste-chromolithographer. Between 1900 and 1910, Louis Tauzin painted a series of watercolours of spa towns (Saint-Alban-les-Eaux, Évian, Vichy) which were used as models for postcards.

More information at https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Tauzin

French engraving representing a young woman naked and strange characters dating from the middle of the 19th century.

This engraving is probably the result of a reissue of the encyclopedia on wildlife of Buffon even if this engraving presents humans

Large photo of 50 years of former classmates or military service comrades from 1930s.

Large vintage map of basin of the Mediterranean from a French atlas of the 1910s. This map on two pages measures 46 x 37 cm and forms the front of the document.

These maps show the world as it was in 1910s...

Set of 3 decorative bearer share of a loan realized in France for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1931.

These documents will be sent folded in half as they have been kept since decades.

Set of 8 French bills of exchange from 1950s with tax stamps and rubber-stamps.

Note that several bills of exchange have a hole in the lower left corner: these bills of exchange had to be stapled to the corresponding bills and had to be detached more or less cleanly once the customer had paid the expected amount.

The last photo shows the back of the bills of exchange.

These bills of exchange are financial instruments for loans between companies. Before the massive arrival of computers, these exchanges were carried out by hand as shown by these documents.