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MINIATURE GLOBE; ABEL-KLINGER, C.
La Terre d'après les plus nouvelles découverts. Nuremberg: Institut Artistique de C. Abel-Klinger, Editeurs, c.1860.

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MINIATURE GLOBE; ABEL-KLINGER, C.

La Terre d'après les plus nouvelles découverts. Nuremberg: Institut Artistique de C. Abel-Klinger, Editeurs, c.1860.
A 4 inch (9.8 cm) diameter, 7½ inch tall terrestrial globe in an uncalibrated iron half meridian on turned wood stand with circular base, small compass affixed to base. 12 printed paper gores, continents outlined in color, equator and Grand Meridian delineated in checkered black and red, signed in the southern Mer des Indes. Some wear to half meridian, A few scratches and spots of wear to varnish, repaired tear to gore off California coast.

"Klinger was an art dealer and engraver in Nuremberg, who published globes of various sizes. After his death, the firm was continued by his widow under the name 'J. Klinger's Kunsthandlung.' This name remained in use when Johann Paul Dreykorn (1805-75) bought the firm in 1831. When the merchant Carl Abel joined it in 1852, the name was changed to 'C. Abel Klinger'" (Dekker Globes at Greenwich p 384).

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