An 18 inch table globe

A$7,500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Chicago, Illinois : Weber Costello, [c.1925]. Measuring 18 inches (46cm) in diameter. Terrestrial globe shows the city of Leningrad, changed from Petrograd in 1924, but noticeably lacking the state of Central Australia, which existed between 1927-1931. In bronzed cast iron meridian and stand, with sympathetic facsimile calendrical paper horizon ring, laid on wood. With an analemma and two polar calottes. Standing in bronzed cast iron, paw-footed tripod base, with flower and ribbon decoration. C. F. Weber Co. purchased the globe business of A. H. Andrews Co. in 1896, renamed Weber Costello in 1909.

• Binding: Hardcover

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