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Globe or world map, drawn by the geographer J.Forest *, Girard and Barrère Editors 17 19 rue de Buci in Paris, scale to 65,000,000, blackened wood base, vintage early twentieth century.
This globe is in good condition. It is signed on the side.
A note: some accidents and small depression on the globe in the top, stains and yellowing, scratches and 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 teaching at 17-19, rue de Buci in Paris and remains at 1, place du 13 October in Bagneux. Providers of schools since 1889 and approved by the Ministry of Education, he also proposed to his catalog a globe lighter. Appointed adviser of foreign trade of France in 1912, of which he regularly follows the works, he will be reappointed in this function in 1922.
