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• Title:The world with ist inhabitants.
  
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• Variant Title:World with its inhabitants
  Erde in kleinen
  Erde im Kleinen
  Earth with its inhabitants
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Bauer, Carl Johann Sigmund, 1780-1857, cartographer, publisher.
  
• Published/Created:[Nuremberg, Germany] : [Carl Johann Sigmund Bauer], [1830?]
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PZ6 1830 .W675
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Ethnic costume--Juvenile literature.
  Ethnic costume--Pictorial works.
  Miniature books--Specimens.
  
• Description:28 unnumbered leaves : colour illustrations ; in box, 5 x 5 x 6 cm + 1 globe (4.5 cm in diameter)
  
• Notes:Title from label on lid of box.
  Title on globe: Die Erde in kleinen / C.B.
  The word "its" is misspelled in title.
  A continuous strip of paper folded accordion-style to form a book of 28 leaves. Each leaf bears a hand-coloured engraving of an "inhabitant" of the world dressed in national costume. The engraved captions are in English (with spelling errors) and German. Two blank preliminary leaves pasted at beginning where the booklet attaches to the inside of the box lid, remnant of final leaf attached to marbled paper at the end. In marble paper-covered box with engraved label pasted on the lid. Includes a terrestrial miniature globe, made up of twelve engraved paper gores applied to a plaster sphere, 4.5 cm in diameter.
  Parallel captions in English and German. Place names on globe in German.
  
• Contents:Englischman = Engländer
  Old German = Alt-Teutscher
  Tyrolian = Tyroler
  Hungarian = Ungar
  Spaniard = Spanier
  Laplander = Lappländer
  Polander = Pole
  Baschkire = Baschkir
  Turk = Türke
  Arabian = Araber
  Persian = Perser
  Chinese = Chineser
  Kamschadale = Kamtschadale
  Moor = Maur
  Egyptian = Egyptier
  Gold coost negro = Neger der Goldküste
  Congolan = Bewohner von Congo
  Iago = Iaga
  Hottentot = Hottentot
  Greenlander = Grönländer
  Canadian = Canadier
  Caribbee = Karaibe
  Patagonian = Patagonier
  Mexican = Mexicaner
  Van Dimenslander = Van Diemensländer
  Friendchaps islander = Freundschaftsinsulaner
  Marguesas islander = Marquesasinsulaner
  New Batave = Neuholländer.