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Lot 3079

A pair of 12-inch German celestial and terrestrial large table globes
Paul Räth; Leipzig, mid-20th Century
25-1/2 in. (63.5 cm.) height on stand each. 2

26 January 2011, 13:00 EST
New York

US$1,500 - US$2,000

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A pair of 12-inch German celestial and terrestrial large table globes
Paul Räth; Leipzig, mid-20th Century

[signed], the terrestrial with a cartouche that reads: Räths/Physikalischer Erdglobus/Masstab 1:38600000/(Durchmesser 33cm)/bearbeitet von Prof. Dr. Krause/Herstellung und Verlag/Paul Räth G.m.b.H./Lehrmittelwerksstatten, Leipzig C 1; the coloured paper gores printed with the continents, the oceans with depth contours, overprinted with prevailing wind and principle cable routes; the celestial with a cartouche that reads: Demonstrationsmodell/"HORIZONT-und ÄQUATORSYSTEM"(Himmelsglobus)/Herausgeber: Erich Bartel, Apolda/Thür./Verlag: Paul Räth Nachf. K.G. Leipzig/ Druck: VEB Hermann Haack Gotha/ Nr. 277/64/ Druckereilizenz Nr. k 4/57., and depicts simple celestial cartography in white on blue, mapping the stars onto a spherical projection of the Earth's equator and poles, along with latitude lines at 30 and 60 degrees above and below the equator, polar circles, and a dashed-line ecliptic. The stars are rendered at various levels of magnitude. Each globe displayed in calibrated brass half meridian, raised on a tall oak table stand in the Mission style, with inset compass on the base.
25-1/2 in. (63.5 cm.) height on stand each. (2)

Footnotes

Paul Räth (1881-1929) was an author and publisher, founding a company publishing educational aids in Leipzig, Germany in 1917. From the start, the company manufactured globes and continued for at least 80 years. Their product lines included political and physical globes, relief globes, celestial globes, tellurians, and a lunar globe.

Reference:
Allmayer-Beck, Peter E., ed. Modelle der Welt: Erd-und Himmelsgloben -- Kulturerbe aus oesterreichischen Sammlungen. [Models Of The World: Terrestrial And Celestial Globes -- Cultural Inheritance from Austrian Collections.] Vienna, Bibliophile Edition/Christian Brandstaetter Verlagsgesellschaft, 1997. pp. 214-215, 298, 384.

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