DELITSCH, Professor Otto, Leipzig FELKl & Son, Jan, Roztok & Prague DER GLOBUS Bearbeitet von Prof. Otto Delitsch in Leipzig FABRIK J. FELKL & SOHN Rostok bei Prag. [c.1880] A 13-inch (33cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve colour printed gores and two polar calottes, the equatorial and prime meridian graduated in degrees, the latter running through Iceland, the ecliptic graduated in days, the oceans showing ocean currents, Telgr. Kabel v. 1865 and Kabel 1866 in the North Atlantic, the continents coloured in green and yellow with national boundaries hand-coloured in green, red and brown, showing towns, cities, rivers and mountains, Alaska shown as American, the Congo not shown in Africa ( surface discolouration and abrasions, three slight old cracks to equator, damage to South Pole ), the North Pole with stamped copper hour dial and pointer, a curved wire protruding with attached white-painted wooden moonball level with 10 North of the Equator, with stamped brass meridian circle raised via movable screw-attachment on an ebonised baluster turned column with three low outswept cast-iron legs -- 25in. (64.7cm.) high See Illustration and Detail
DELITSCH, Professor Otto, Leipzig FELKl & Son, Jan, Roztok & Prague DER GLOBUS Bearbeitet von Prof. Otto Delitsch in Leipzig FABRIK J. FELKL & SOHN Rostok bei Prag. [c.1880] A 13-inch (33cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve colour printed gores and two polar calottes, the equatorial and prime meridian graduated in degrees, the latter running through Iceland, the ecliptic graduated in days, the oceans showing ocean currents, Telgr. Kabel v. 1865 and Kabel 1866 in the North Atlantic, the continents coloured in green and yellow with national boundaries hand-coloured in green, red and brown, showing towns, cities, rivers and mountains, Alaska shown as American, the Congo not shown in Africa ( surface discolouration and abrasions, three slight old cracks to equator, damage to South Pole ), the North Pole with stamped copper hour dial and pointer, a curved wire protruding with attached white-painted wooden moonball level with 10 North of the Equator, with stamped brass meridian circle raised via movable screw-attachment on an ebonised baluster turned column with three low outswept cast-iron legs -- 25in. (64.7cm.) high See Illustration and Detail
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