Detail View: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection: Section 21 Henze's Erd-Globus.

Henze, Adolf

1891

Section 21 Henze's Erd-Globus.

Adolf Henze

Neustadt-Leipzig

Globe Gores

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With a diameter of 43 inches, these 24 gores form the largest printed globe produced in the 19th century.Dimensions are sheet size.

World

Africa

Europe

Section 21 Henze's Erd-Globus.

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Henze, Adolf

1891

Henze's Erd-Globus. Sections 1-24, with polar caps.

Read two pages of magazine ‘Illustrierter Anzeiger für Contor und Bureau:" https://rumsey5.s3.amazonaws.com/Henze.pdf

24 globe gores on thin paper. Adolf Henze (1814-1883) was an important printing innovator, best known for Chirogrammatomantie. He published a number of numismatic, economic and scientific works as well as a huge terrestrial globe. Beginning in 1865, Henze published the magazine  ‘Illustrierter Anzeiger für Contor und Bureau’. Between 1885 and 1890 the magazine included at irregular  intervals the segments for a 106 cm large impressive German terrestrial globe. The completed strips could, if sent to the publisher, for a fee, be mounted onto a  sphere or supplied with a pneumatic kit to enable home assembly by inflation. "A TERRESTRIAL GLOBE 106 cm BY ADOLF HENZE, LEIPZIG 1891. A specimen of this globe can be found in the Duke of Ftirstenberg's castle In Donaueschingen near the source of the Danube. It stands In a collection of varia amongst penguins and pelicans, In the department of natural history. Coincidentally another one is in the director's room of the Museum of Natural History In Vienna. This globe, which Henze's publishers called a "giant globe", has an unusual origin. The publishers were engaged in numismatics and, beginning In 1865; edited a magazine entitled lllustrlrter Anzeiger fur Cantor und Bureau" (Illustrated magazine for office and premises). It was printed six times a year by Breitkopf & Haertl of Leipzig. It answered the merchant's questions about exchange rates, postal rules, new railway lines; dishonored bills and bonds, and copyright and patent matters and also gave descriptions of newly Issued coins. Particularly amusing to read were the stories of frauds. To make the magazine more attractive and to encourage continued subscription, supplements such as maps and conversion tables were included at no cost. In irregular intervals between 1885 and 1890 the 24 gores and 2 polar caps for a globe were added as supplements. These colour lithographs had been calculated for a globe of 106 cm diameter. The title reads "Henze's Erd-Globus Im Verhaltnis wie 1 : 12 Milllonen zur naturlichen Grosse" (Henze's Terrestrial Globe, Scale 1 : 12 mtll. to Natural Size) The patience of the subscribers was severely tried as ft took almost 6 years to collect the gores. The editors offered a folder to collect the gores. Then, In December 1890 the editors offered to make a globe out of the gores if the complete set was sent back. The cost was 30 Marks for a globe mounted on a stand, 27 marks for a sphere with pneumatic pump and 6 Marks for a ''balloon." New gores for section 1 through 4 were used (i.e. 0° to 60° East), showing the new German colonies In Africa. Official permission was given In January 1893 to sell the globe to non-sub-scribers. The new partially Improved globe cost from 70 to 75 Marks, depending upon the mounting. This price was much lower than the well known large globes of Reimer which measured 80 cm In diameter and cost between 210 and 396 Marks. Henze's globes were on sale in different forms (e.g. with a base, or to be hung from the ceiling, with a meridian and on axis; and with a lifting device). For the globe with base a space of about 2 x 2 m was required. The pneumatic globe, having a center rod, could be easily blown up within 2 minutes and the process could be repeated. No explanation for the inflation of such a globe has required, It could stand on a box, for example. Once this globe was varnished; it could not be deflated completely., but could be carried through doors of common width. From 1894 onwards another type was offered. A 54 x 31 cm box held an inflatible globe, which could easily be stored together with a box containing a pneumatic pump. Everything was durable and of the finest quality The fix mounted globes were made in two halves for easier transportation and were connected by 4 screws which protruded at the equator. In 1891 a handbook to accompany the globe appeared as a supplement to the magazine. The preface reads: The abnormal slze of the globe makes ft difficult to find places of given names. Therefore, an alphabetic list of all places with their coordinates and their locations on the gores is given. Some scientific and statistical information are noted as well to make the list less monotonous. The globe is In the scale of 1 : 12 mill. with gores printed In several colours on thin paper. The printing was done at Henze's workshop in Neustadt-Lelpzig. Growing commercial interest was taken into account; Telegraphic cables, ship lines with traveling time In days and hours, railroads .... especially the transcontinental ones In the USA and Siberia are shown on the gores of the first edition. Also shown were the African Free trade zones covering the later Kenya, German East-Africa, Burundi, Ruanda, the Congo plain, and the mouth of the Congo. After the establishment of the colonies the free trade in these zones was eliminated. On the mounted globes these free-zone boundaries cannot be found. Corrections were also made in the gores for German Southwest Africa on the exchanged gores. The drawing in regions where lesser commercial interest is presumed ore less exact (I.e. Greenland, North Canada and the Pacific Islands). In 1891 the date line was still shown between the Philippines and the Asiatic continent, although It was set at the current location In 1845. In 1889 the magazine had a distribution of 32,OOO. Occasionally one can find the attached gores at antique dealers. Mounted globes, due to their size, are apparently rare and only three specimens are known to the author. It would be of great Interest to know if globes of other diameters had been Issued by Henze." (Translation from German) (Werner Kummer, Journal for the Study of Globes and Related Instruments, 1990)

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