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Code 8102
EUR 1200.00
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1741188421Code 8102 Pair of bookendsPair of bookends on oak wood board mounting two small terrestrial and celestial globes. Published by Columbus Schulerglobus, cartographer Prof Paul Oestergaard Berlin Stuttgart in the 1960s. Oak wood base, lithographed cardboard spheres, complete with engraved aluminum meridian circle. Good condition, excellent readability. base width cm 12 – 4.8 inch
Height 15 cm – 5.9 inch, sphere diameter 10 cm – 3.9 inch.
Founded in 1909 in Berlin by Paul Oestergaard, grandson of Peter J. Oestergaard who produced globes at the end of the 19th century, Columbus is the oldest globe manufacturer still working today in the world. For more than a century Columbus has innovated the globe manufacturing industry and the experience accumulated over 4 generations has allowed Columbus to achieve the status of the world's leading globe manufacturer. Peter J. Oestergaard began its production at the end of the 19th century. After producing terrestrial models for the Berlin Newspaper Allgemeine Zeitung for a few years, he soon became known for his stunningly detailed globes. He then decided to open his own globe shop; Peter Oesteergard was succeeded by his son Peter Oestergaard Junior, who renamed the company Drei Kegel Verlag; the company ceased operations during the Second World War due to the premature death of Peter Oesterggard Junior. Peter Oesterggard's grandson, Paul Oestergaard, would instead open the famous Columbus Verlag, which still exists today.
The first globe we know of is the one attributed by Strabo, historian and geographer, to the Greek Crates of Mallo (around 150 BC). The first globes at the beginning of the 16th century. they were built under the pressure of great geographical explorations and immediately began to be used for educational purposes at princely courts, monasteries and colleges; the globe then begins to conquer university environments and high and low schools. It will be with the nineteenth century of great trade, circulation and the introduction of compulsory schooling that the desire to know distant countries will increase, making the old method of constructing globes inadequate. Spindles printed from engraved plates are no longer enough and the only real resource becomes lithography through which it is possible to print and promptly update maps that with the growth of geographical discoveries.
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