Erdglobus gezeichnet von H. Kiepert.

Diameter: ca. 19 cm with 2 chromolithographed polar calottes and 12 gores (very light tr. of use, depression in the earth's surface c. 3cm).

Mounted in a wooden stand with a graduated brass meridian ring, an engr. paper horizon ring, and an equatorial compass rose at the bottom; total height: ca. 47 cm.

German terrestrial globe by Heinrich Kiepert (1818-1899), who worked for one of the most successful globe making enterprises in Germany. Engr. by J. Sulzer and printed by F. Barth.
Ref. Dekker, Globes at Greenwich, pp. 469-470.