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An unusual Swedish globe showing the physical geography of the world, the information based on Kiepert's work in Weimar, updated by Kempe for school use, in Stockholm in 1909.
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KIEPERT, Heinrich and ARVID KEMPE, Stockholm and Berlin, 1909
Jordglob av Heinrich Kiepert svensk upplaga av Arvid Kempe, Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm, 1909, D. Reimers kartograph, tryckeri, Berlin
A 24-inch (60.6cm.) diameter terrestrial globe, made up of 48 colour lithographed gores overbound with two polar calottes, the physical globe showing the principal mountain ranges and rivers, the principal borders, the seas showing currents and ice limits; metal axis, brass half meridian circle, on turned ebonised oak column and base (a few small cracks and old abrasions) -- 41in. (104.1cm.) high
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Jordglob av Heinrich Kiepert svensk upplaga av Arvid Kempe, Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm, 1909, D. Reimers kartograph, tryckeri, Berlin
A 24-inch (60.6cm.) diameter terrestrial globe, made up of 48 colour lithographed gores overbound with two polar calottes, the physical globe showing the principal mountain ranges and rivers, the principal borders, the seas showing currents and ice limits; metal axis, brass half meridian circle, on turned ebonised oak column and base (a few small cracks and old abrasions) -- 41in. (104.1cm.) high
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