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Terrestrial globe or world map, drawn up by the geographer J.Forest*, 17-19 rue de Buci in Paris, scale 1/50,000,000, blackened wooden base, from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
This globe is in overall good condition. It is signed on the side.
A note: slight stains and yellowing, wear of time, see photos (see red arrows).
is a French geographer and cartographer. In 1886, he founded his publishing house of maps and plans, world maps, globes, terrestrial and celestial spheres, paintings and wall maps for education at 17-19, rue de Buci in Paris and lives at 1, place du 13 October in Bagneux. Suppliers to schools since 1889 and approved by the Ministry of Public Instruction, it has also offered a globe lighter in its catalogue. Appointed foreign trade adviser to France in 1912, whose work he regularly followed, he was reappointed to this position in 1922.
