Accession No

6248

Brief Description

13-inch terrestrial topographical (relief) globe, ‘Räths Relief-Erdglobus’, by Paul Räth / Räthgloben, East German, 1950

Origin

Germany; Leipzig

Maker

Räth, Paul [publisher] Krause, Arthur [editor]

Class

cartography; earth sciences

Earliest Date

1950

Latest Date

1950

Inscription Date

1950

Material

metal (steel); wood (pine); paper (paper, card)

Dimensions

diameter: 33cm height: 51cm

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased from Dorotheum Auction House, Palais Dorotheum, A-1010 Wien, Dorotheergasse 17, Austria, on or before 29/10/2008. Lot 24 in Historische Wissenschaftliche Instrumente und Globen.

Inscription

Räths Relief-Erdglobus
Maßstab 1:38600000
bearbeitet von Professor Dr. Arthur Krause
Verlag Paul Räth G. m. b. H. Leipzig
März 1950

Description Notes

13-inch terrestrial topographical (relief) globe, ‘Räths Relief-Erdglobus’, by Paul Räth / Räthgloben, East German, 1950.

Edited by Professor Dr. Arthur Krause, published by Paul Räth of Leipzig, March 1950. Scale: 1:38600000.

Terrestrial globe with topographical variation rendered in exaggerated three dimensions. 12 printed paper gores, plus two polar calottes, on shaped cardboard sphere(?), with aluminium half meridian on turned wood stand.

Land masses are coloured according to altitude of terrain above sea level (key for this is pasted to the underside of the globe’s stand), and major geographical features (e.g. mountain ranges) and major cities are labelled. Arrows in oceans show direction of major ocean currents. Equatorial, tropical, and international date line rings also marked.

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