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A fine and highly detailed French terrestrial library globe showing the earth's geography as it was mapped in the late nineteenth century. The globe includes the oceans' major currents, the declination of the sun, color-coded European colonial possessions, the locations of railway tracks, telegraph lines, and ocean liner routes, as well as the tracks of various explorers, including Columbus, Cook, Vancouver, D'Urville, and Freycinet, among others. The globe consists of twelve hand-colored lithographed paper gores and two calottes pasted to a plaster and wood sphere; the globe's graduated brass meridian circle is set within a later stand consisting of a wooden horizon ring with a printed paper surface showing zodiac symbols, wind directions and a calendar with months; wood stretchers with acorn finials, supported by three turned wooden legs with metal casters; legs with a y-shaped stretcher centered by a circular compass, with a printed paper dial under glass. The globe has small scratches and light restoration, hand color toned, printed paper over horizon ring is a later reproduction with a few cracks and chips to the edges. The diameter is approximately 19.5 inches and the total height with the stand is 42.5 inches.