Old Air France Celestial & Zodiac World Map, 1959 by Bucher - Historical Airplane Route Chart, Constellations macau The map looks great at

The map looks great at all sizes available

work leaving or housewarming gift for someone from Cardiff or who has the capital of Wales in their heart

This quite a smart map - the numbers around the outside of the central disc show that longitude and time zones can be calculated quite simply by flattening the globe

villages and cities of Japan are already visible in this map - though many have old names that you might not recognise

Old Air France Celestial & Zodiac World Map, 1959 by Bucher - Historical Airplane Route Chart, Constellations macau The map looks great atOriginally published in 1959 by Lucien Boucher for Air France, this is probably the most beautiful and decorative world map ever. Most of this map is a double hemispheric view of of the night sky with dozens of constellations illustrated in wonderful detail. All of the 12 major zodiac signs are here, plus many others. In the bottom left corner is a small globe with Air France's routes shown in yellow. You could almost imagine their planes flying off