POCKET GLOBE; FOREST, J. [Globe Terrestre.] Paris: Forest, Géographe-Éditeur, 1...

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POCKET GLOBE; FOREST, J.
[Globe Terrestre.] Paris: Forest, Géographe-Éditeur, 17 Rue de Buci, c.1930.
A 3 inch (7.7 cm) diameter pocket globe offered with an 18th century fishskin over wood case with 3 brass hook and eye clasps (a bit too small for globe). 12 chromolithograph paper gores with 2 polar calottes over wood wighted at South pole with metal, signed in south Pacific, legend in Indian Ocean, case with 2 sets of 12 engraved celestial half gores varnished in green. Globe gores worn with some small areas of paper loss, 1 inch crack running up from south pole, one hook clasp lacking.

A French 20th century pocket globe.