Description
The terrestrial globe rests loosely, as issued, in the original cardboard box. A long, accordion-fold hand-colored print, originally attached to the inside base of the box and having an outer tab, shows in each of 32 connected panels people of different nationalities in native costumes, with titles in English, German and French. The cardboard box is covered with green paper with an embossed floral pattern, the lid with a colored engraved vignette of various peoples of the world examining a globe, within an applied patterned border.
For more information on Carl Johann Sigmund Bauer please see our Guide to Globe Makers.
The heyday of the pocket globe was Georgian period England, from the early 18th century to about 1840, where they were mainly made as novelty items for English aristocrats interested in geography and astronomy. Read more about the history and development of pocket globes.
References:
Allmayer-Beck, Peter E., ed. Modelle der Welt: Erd-und Himmelsgloben — Kulturerbe aus oesterreichischen Sammlungen [Models Of The World: Terrestrial And Celestial Globes — Cultural Inheritance from Austrian Collections] Vienna: Bibliophile Edition/Christian Brandstaetter Verlagsgesellschaft, 1997. p. 171.
Dahl, Edward H. and Gauvin, Jean-François. Sphaerae Mundi: Early Globes at the Stewart Museum. Canada: Septentrion and McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000. pp. 98-99. (related globe in Stewart Museum, but in different box, tentatively attributed to Bauer family.)
Dekker, Elly, et al. Globes at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Globes and Armillary Spheres in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. London: Oxford University Press and the National Maritime Museum, 1999. pp. 273-75. (Re: Bauer family, esp. Johann.)
Dekker, Elly and van der Krogt, Peter. Globes from the Western World. London: Zwemmer, 1993. p. 98. (Illustrates similar globe, initialled “C.B.” from the Universeitmuseum at Utrecht. Engraving apparently identical except only German titles, box in German and has different lid.)
Lamb, Tom and Collins, Jeremy. The World in Your Hands: An Exhibition of Globes and Planetaria. London: Christie’s, 1994. p. 92. (Re: Peter Bauer.)