Claude Félix DELAMARCHE - Lot 138

Claude Félix DELAMARCHE Small pair of Ptolemaic-type terrestrial globes and armillary spheres in wood, cardboard and polychrome paper signed DELAMARCHE and dated 1833, located Paris chez l'auteur rue de Jardinet N°13. Blackened wood base with steps. H. 27 cm Diam. 16 cm (Wear and soiling) Claude Félix Delamarche was a French geographer born in Paris on October 20, 1779 and died in Paris on January 5, 1835. He took over the family geographical publishing house on the death of his father Charles François Delamarche in 1817[1], who had acquired Didier Robert de Vaugondy's collection in 1786. The publishing activity continued throughout the 19th century in collaboration with Charles Dien.