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An unusual early 19th-Century German 1½-inch diameter pocket terrestrial globe
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An unusual early 19th-Century German 1½-inch diameter pocket terrestrial globe
marked MCB for Carl Bauer, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, with text in English, graduated equatorial, the ecliptic with sigils at appropriate intervals and the Greenwich meridian ungraduated, the continents with faded pink, green and yellow colouring, national boundaries not shown, with some rivers and place names shown, in a plush-lined cylindrical card case, the lid inscribed in ink The World with ist[sic] Inhabitants, covered in blue paper and mounted on a rectangular base with strips of impressed gilt paper decoration and holding a small booklet with yellow paper-covered boards, folding out concertina-wise to show twenty-eight attractive hand-coloured engraved images of the peoples of the world, with nationalities stated in English and German
2¼in. (5.7cm.) high
marked MCB for Carl Bauer, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, with text in English, graduated equatorial, the ecliptic with sigils at appropriate intervals and the Greenwich meridian ungraduated, the continents with faded pink, green and yellow colouring, national boundaries not shown, with some rivers and place names shown, in a plush-lined cylindrical card case, the lid inscribed in ink The World with ist[sic] Inhabitants, covered in blue paper and mounted on a rectangular base with strips of impressed gilt paper decoration and holding a small booklet with yellow paper-covered boards, folding out concertina-wise to show twenty-eight attractive hand-coloured engraved images of the peoples of the world, with nationalities stated in English and German
2¼in. (5.7cm.) high