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Large 1940s globe from Paravia based on a drawing by C. Boehmer
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£2,663.62
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Large globe published in the 1940s by Paravia based on a design by C. Boehmer. In addition to the spatial map, ocean currents are depicted. Papier mache and plaster sphere covered with the twelve spindles and the two lithographed paper caps, base and meridian circle in burnished metal. Good condition, two conservative restorations on Atlantic Ocean and solder on base, very good readability. Measures 58 x 70 cm - 22.8 x 27.5 in.
The publishing house G.B. Paravia was founded in Turin in 1802 when Giovanni Battista Paravia took over an already active printing press; initially it published religious and scholastic texts, but under the leadership of his son Giorgio it consolidated as a solid and well-established company in the Piedmont publishing scene. Upon Giorgio's death, the business passed to Innocenzo Vigliardi, who combined his surname with that of the Paravia family and gave strong impetus to the company's expansion. During the nineteenth century, Paravia grew to become one of the most important Italian publishing houses in the school sector, expanding its production to include dictionaries, children's works, essays, fiction and educational materials. In 1873 it acquired the Royal Printing Works and greatly expanded its production capacity. In the early twentieth century it continued to develop, introducing illustrated teaching aids such as atlases, wall maps, scientific maps, and terrestrial and celestial globes, which were employed in schools throughout Italy. It became a corporation in 1920 and moved to a new modern complex in 1927, but it was destroyed by wartime bombing in 1942, causing the loss of many historical archives. After the conflict, the company resumed operations, rebuilt its headquarters and adapted to the new directions of Italian schools, expanding the catalog with updated textbooks and new educational aids. In the decades that followed, Paravia remained a central brand in national educational publishing until it merged with Bruno Mondadori in 2000 to form Paravia Bruno Mondadori Editori and was incorporated by the international Pearson Group in 2006. Its long history, spanning more than two centuries, reflects the evolution of educational publishing in Italy and the fundamental role Paravia has played in the education of generations of students through widely circulated manuals, atlases and teaching materials.
The earliest known globe is the one attributed by Strabo, historian and geographer, to the Greek Cratetes of Mallo (c.a. 150 B.C.). The first globes in the early 16th century were built under the impetus of the great geographical explorations and immediately began to be used for educational purposes at princely courts, monasteries, and colleges; the globe later began to conquer university circles and high and lower schools. In the 18th century, the official geographer of Louis XV King of France, Didier Robert de Vaugondy, thanks to the practice he had gained in globe-making, expanded the "Globe" article of the Encyclopédie by detailing the distinction between a celestial globe (representing the concave surface of the sky with its constellations) and a terrestrial globe (representing instead the surface of the Earth with its seas, islands, rivers, cities, etc.) and the techniques for making them: two papier-mâché hemispheres pressed and molded on or inside a hemispherical mold, dried and strengthened inside with a wooden board, then glued and covered with a thin layer of plaster on which the globe spindles of areas between two meridians, usually twelve, were pasted, made of paper previously printed by engraving on a copper plate and colored, each covering 30 degrees of longitude. It will be with the nineteenth century of great commerce, circulation and the introduction of compulsory schooling that the desire to learn about distant countries will increase, making the old method of globe construction inadequate. Spindles printed from engraved plates no longer suffice, and the only real resource becomes lithography through which it is possible to print and update maps in a timely manner, which as more and more geographical discoveries are made in different countries become obsolete faster and faster.
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