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GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE OF BRUSSELS NEW PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL GLOBE PUBLISHED BY MERZBACH & FALK BRUSSELS.1881
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[MERZBACH & FALK, Brussels, 1881]
GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE OF BRUSSELS NEW PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL GLOBE PUBLISHED BY MERZBACH & FALK BRUSSELS.1881
A modern reproduction 30.5cm. diameter terrestrial table globe, by Greaves & Thomas, made up of twelve chromolithographed gores and two polar calottes, the southern polar calotte with a further label reading MERZBACH & FALK, PUBLISHERS, BRUSSELS. PATENT, the text in English, the equatorial and Greenwich meridian graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated but unlabelled, the oceans showing ocean currents, the continents with nation states shaded in shades of green, orange and yellow and showing rivers, mountains, towns and cities (small repair at South Pole) with a stamped brass meridian circle in a mahogany horizon, the applied paper ring a hand-coloured reproduction graduated in degrees and days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, raised on four baluster turned mahogany legs united by cross stretchers
49cm. high
See colour illustration
GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE OF BRUSSELS NEW PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL GLOBE PUBLISHED BY MERZBACH & FALK BRUSSELS.1881
A modern reproduction 30.5cm. diameter terrestrial table globe, by Greaves & Thomas, made up of twelve chromolithographed gores and two polar calottes, the southern polar calotte with a further label reading MERZBACH & FALK, PUBLISHERS, BRUSSELS. PATENT, the text in English, the equatorial and Greenwich meridian graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated but unlabelled, the oceans showing ocean currents, the continents with nation states shaded in shades of green, orange and yellow and showing rivers, mountains, towns and cities (small repair at South Pole) with a stamped brass meridian circle in a mahogany horizon, the applied paper ring a hand-coloured reproduction graduated in degrees and days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, raised on four baluster turned mahogany legs united by cross stretchers
49cm. high
See colour illustration
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