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    • Title:Geographische Studien.
    • Publication:[Germany?] : [publisher not identified], [circa 1870]
    • Physical Description:1 puzzle (22 pieces) : wood ; 14 cm in diameter, in box 17 x 22 x 12 cm
    • Yale Holdings

      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
      • Call Number: GV1507.J5 G46 1870 Flat A
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
       
    • Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy in original wooden box with illustrated label on lid. Original metal latches and hinges.
    • Notes:Issue in a wooden box, the top lid of which bears a lithographed image (with game title) of a tutor instructing two students.
    • Summary:Geographical puzzle in 22 wooden pieces which, when fully assembled, forms a complete globe (14 cm in diameter). The globe is dissected into six horizontal layers; the four middle layers are further cut into pie-shaped pieces. The internal surfaces of each layer also bear maps and images describing the various continents.
      Undated. The maps correspond to political boundaries ca. 1870.
    • Format:Visual Material
    • Subjects:Geography--Study and teaching.
      Geographical recreations--Specimens.
    • Genre/Form:Dissection puzzles.
      Puzzles.
      Globes.
      Lithographs--Hand-colored--1870?
      Boxes (Containers)