Terrestrial table globe by Delamarche 22 cm

FRENCH TERRESTRIAL TABLE GLOBE. DELAMARCHE, FELIX. Globe terrestre dressé d´aprés les relations les plus recentes par F. Delamarche, success.r de Robert de Vaugondy. Paris (1829?) "A Paris, chez l´auteur Ingén. Mécan.en pour les globes et sphères. Rue du Jardinet, n° 13. Quartier St André des Arcs (sic). Gravé par Barrière frères. Ecrit par A. Pelicier".

Terrestrial table globe with horizon ring, armature and meridian ring of papier mache, globe with two cartouches, original colour on engraved gores. Single original turned wooden stand. Diameter 22 cm (c. 7 inches), height c. 48 cm.
Globe with large crack in the Atlantic ocean, (about 20 cms) partly worn and with some losses, browned, wear, soiling and staining on meridian ring, lacking the small papier mache circle (?) at the top.

In 1784 Charles-François Delamarche (1740-1817) took over the store of atlases and globes by Robert de Vaugondy. His son Félix succeeded him in 1817 and managed it until 1848.
Delamarche was the first French globe-maker to aim his product squarely at the commercial market. His globes were a combination of fine cartography and detail together with attractive but cheaply produced globes. He replaced the more usual (but also more expensive) brass meridian and horizon rings, and made them of of wood or even stiff card. They would then be applied with paper showing the graduations and other details, and finished in the distinctive Delamarche edging with red paint.

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