[GLOBE] The earth.

Published by J. G. Klinger in Nuremberg. Constructed, delineated and etched by J. A. Buhler.

Nuremberg : J[ohann]. G[eorg]. Klinger, [between 1841 – 1852]. Wooden and plaster globe (6 inches in diameter), covered with 12 glazed and hand-coloured gores, fitted and spinning with metal polar axis in a circular card box, the lid provided in expert facsimile, the globe a little rubbed and with a few cracks but sound.

A rare large format cased miniature globe, with the continents marked out in different colours together with all the main topographical and geographical features. Mount Erebus and Mount Terror are both marked on the Antarctic continent, as discovered on January 27, 1841 by polar explorer Sir James Clark Ross, who named them after his ships, Erebus and Terror.

The globe was published by the Nuremberg cartographic firm founded by the engraver Johann Georg Klinger (1764-1806). The company continued until the early 1920s under various names, including Klinger Kunsthandlung, Klinger & Bauer, and after 1852 as C. Abel-Klinger Kunsthandlung, upon the firm’s acquisition by Carl Abel.

This English language example was one of a number of editions published by Klinger for use in schools.