Lot Essay
The date of manufacture of this globe can be fixed between the end of World War One and the division of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, and 1924, when St Petersburg became Leningrad.
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WINDELS, L., Brussels
GELLUSTREERDE AARDBOL Voor Nederland en Belgis bewerkt door H. PAULWELS Uitgever L. WINDELLS BRUSSEL. [c.1920]
A 6-inch (15.2cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve colour printed gores and two polar calottes, the equator graduated in degrees and hours, the ecliptic graduated in days but unlabelled, the oceans with ocean currents, steamship routes and pictoral representations of five of the races of the world [North American Indian, Caucasian, African, Polynesian and Far East Asian], the continents with nation states variously coloured according to national possession and showing details including railways, towns, cities, rivers and mountains (old surface abrasions and discolouration) on turned ebonised column and plinth base -- 12in. (30.5cm.) high
See Colour Illustration and Detail
GELLUSTREERDE AARDBOL Voor Nederland en Belgis bewerkt door H. PAULWELS Uitgever L. WINDELLS BRUSSEL. [c.1920]
A 6-inch (15.2cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve colour printed gores and two polar calottes, the equator graduated in degrees and hours, the ecliptic graduated in days but unlabelled, the oceans with ocean currents, steamship routes and pictoral representations of five of the races of the world [North American Indian, Caucasian, African, Polynesian and Far East Asian], the continents with nation states variously coloured according to national possession and showing details including railways, towns, cities, rivers and mountains (old surface abrasions and discolouration) on turned ebonised column and plinth base -- 12in. (30.5cm.) high
See Colour Illustration and Detail