Fourteen ethnographic portraits from the miniature globe ‘The world with its inhabitants’

A$600 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

[Nuremberg : Bauer, c. 1830]. Concertina paper strip of vignettes of the races of the world, each vignette 55 x 45 mm, coloured by hand, the illustrations cut into sections and laid on an early leaf, perhaps from a scrapbook, with captions in German, including inhabitants from Greenland, Canada, Turkey, Arabia, Persia, China, Kamchatka, Van Diemen s Land, the Friendly Islands, the Marquesas Islands, New Holland, etc. In the 1830s the German globe manufacturer of Bauer published miniature globes which came in a small box with a folding concertina of people of the world. Each example of Bauer s miniature globe has a different configuration of figures, and Pacific Islanders are uncommon. This example has good content illustrating indigenous people from Australia and the Pacific.

• Binding: Hardcover

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