"Terrestrial Globe G.b.paravia E C., Designed By Prof. Guido Coria, 1920"
Terrestrial globe from the famous Italian manufacturer G.B.Paravia e C., designed by Prof. Guido Coria, around 1920. GB Paravia is one of the oldest publishing houses in our country.
Founded in Turin in 1802 by Giovanni Battista Paravia (1765-1826), it was born as a publisher of mainly school texts, at a time when the boundaries between the activities of printer, publisher and bookseller were very blurred. Upon his death, the company was taken over by his widow and his cousin Innocenzo Vigliardi, who decided to extend the activity to the educational field, then also to move on to the printing of children's stories, above all thanks to the collaboration of Emilio Salgari as translator, author and proofreader.
Born in Turin in 1851, Guido Cora held the chair of geography and statistics at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Turin from 1882 then of physical geography at the Faculty of Sciences. He had completed his studies in Germany. In the second half of the 19th century, it enjoyed great prestige. Cora was a tireless traveler in the Balkans, Australia, South America, Africa and became a great expert in polar geography; the first Italian colonial papers are his.
Two promontories in New Guinea and one in Patagonia bear his name.
In 1897 he moved to Rome where he remained for fifteen years, giving rise to geographical studies in that city and teaching geography at La Sapienza University. In 1873, he founded the geographical journal “Cosmos”. In 1886 he was awarded the Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society "for significant service as a writer and cartographer." At the publisher G.B. Paravia publishes globes and atlases and numerous thematic maps; he also writes monographs relating to Africa, Croatia and Serbia.
He died in 1917.
The globe is made of pressed cardboard covered with a layer of paper segments.
Aluminum structure.
Solid wood base.
All original.
Excellent condition without breakage, beautiful patina.
Dimensions: globe diameter 33 cm, height 56 cm.
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