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DELAMARCHE.
See original version (French)
96
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DELAMARCHE.
See original version (French)
Estimate €150 - €250
Voluntary lot
Description
DELAMARCHE.
Lithographed cardboard globe marked ‘Globe adopted by the University Council, Maison DELAMARCHE, Paris, 25 Rue Serpente’, with a brass meridian and graduated horizon circle, and a bronze base (attached).
Circa 1880.
Height: 35 cm
This globe reflects the political organisation of the world around 1880, at a time when borders and empires were very different from those of today. It notably features the recently unified German Empire, the vast Austro-Hungarian Empire and the still-powerful Ottoman Empire. In Africa, the interior of the continent is depicted through its kingdoms and peoples, before European colonisation profoundly redrew the map. The globe dates from a few years after the opening of the Suez Canal (1869) and predates the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885, which marked a major milestone in the colonial partition of Africa.
See original version (French)
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