LEBEGUE & Co., Paris
LEBEGUE & Co., Paris

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LEBEGUE & Co., Paris
J. LEBÈGUE & CIE ÉDITEURS 30 Rue de Lille 30. PARIS PROPRIÉTÉ POUR TOUS LES DROITS DE TRADUCTIONS RÉSERVÉS Gravé par A. SOLDAN Bould Raspail, 218 (ex-Denfert) PARIS and
GLOBE TERRESTRE par E. DUBAIL Gravé par A. Soldan Imp. Monrocq. [c.1905]
A 19.11/16-inch (50cm.) diameter terrestrial library globe made up of twelve chromolithographed gores and two polar calottes, the equatorial graduated in hours and degrees (x2) from the Méridien 0° de Paris and the Méridien 0° de Greenwich, both of which are ungraduated, the ecliptic traversing the equator at 0° (Paris) and graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, the oceans with warm and cold ocean currents and steamship routes with ports of arrival and departure, linked to a table explaining colouring and abbreviations according the operating line and country of origin, also showing the limits of glacial ice, the North-East and North-West passages as charted in 1878-79 and 1859-53 respectively, also with submarine cable lines and the Sargasso Sea and shaded according to depth, numerous islands with date of discovery and name of discoverer, the continents with nation states coloured according to national possession and showing towns, cities, telegraph and railway lines, caravan routes, the Route impériale de Trébizonde à Pékin, inland steamship routes and the Great Wall of China, with physical details including rivers, mountains, deserts, tundra, swamps, intermittant rivers and areas below sea-level, the Antarctic with various notes relating to discoveries, the latest being Scott 1903 (numerous scratches, abrasaions, discolourations and cracks, including some paper and plaster loss), with stamped brass meridian circle , the papered mahogany horizon ring graduated in degrees (x2), days of the houses of the Zodiac and of the month, with wind directions (much darkened, some paper loss, scratches and abrasions), raised on four curved mahogany quadrant supports to baluster turned central pillar with three cabriole legs terminating in castors -- 47in. (119.3cm.) high

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