Globe terrestre (6-inch)

A$1,250 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

[Paris] : J. Forest, [c.1925]. Terrestrial globe titled Globe terrestre , 6 inches in diameter, lithographed gores over papier-mâché sphere, metal pins on a turned French ebonised wooden stand, original, a few light marks and foxing, a small impression in the Pacific. A good example of an uncommon table globe from the interwar period, showing the geographical names Leningrad, Constantinople, and Persia and marked, as well as Alexandra Land in the Northern Territory, indicating a date of the mid 1920s.

• Binding: Hardcover

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