Lot Essay
The marking of Petrograd in Russia dates the manfucture of this globe to almost exactly 1924, the year when St Petersburg took this name before becoming Leningrad.
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MIR, Faustino Paluze, Barcelona
GLOBO TERRESTRE POR Faustino Paluze Mir IMPRENTA ELZEVIRIANA Y LIBRERA CAM, S.A. JOAQUIN COSTA, 64 BARCELONA [c.1924]
An unusual 15-inch (40cm.) diameter Spanish terrestrial library globe made up of twelve chromolithographed gores and two polar calottes, the equator and Greenwigh meridian graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days and showing symbols for the houses of the Zodiac, the oceans showing the International Date Line, ocean currents and steamship routes, the continents with nation states outlined in green and yellow and showing railways, rivers, mountains, the Great Wall of China, towns and cities, Russia showing Petrogrado (some old marks and discolouration), with unengraved brass meridian circle (oxidised) rotating through 360 the horizontal axis, the fruitwood horizon ring with two moving catches to hold the globe upright, supoprted on four turned fruitwood legs united by cross stretchers -- 32in. (81.3cm.) high
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GLOBO TERRESTRE POR Faustino Paluze Mir IMPRENTA ELZEVIRIANA Y LIBRERA CAM, S.A. JOAQUIN COSTA, 64 BARCELONA [c.1924]
An unusual 15-inch (40cm.) diameter Spanish terrestrial library globe made up of twelve chromolithographed gores and two polar calottes, the equator and Greenwigh meridian graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days and showing symbols for the houses of the Zodiac, the oceans showing the International Date Line, ocean currents and steamship routes, the continents with nation states outlined in green and yellow and showing railways, rivers, mountains, the Great Wall of China, towns and cities, Russia showing Petrogrado (some old marks and discolouration), with unengraved brass meridian circle (oxidised) rotating through 360 the horizontal axis, the fruitwood horizon ring with two moving catches to hold the globe upright, supoprted on four turned fruitwood legs united by cross stretchers -- 32in. (81.3cm.) high
See Colour Illustration and Detail