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\n<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I love finding these nuggets on Ebay . \u00a0 This find is EXACTLY why despite all the complaining I do Ebay is still the most fertile hunting ground out there. \u00a0 \u00a0This is the story of a book, \u00a0a Holbrook manual, with the cumbersome title of \u00a0” A Teacher’s guide to Illustration or Holbrooks guide to school apparatus”. \u00a0In a nutshell it is part globe use manual ( about 1\/2 the book) part globe catalog (20%) and the rest a guide to various other Holbrook teaching aids. \u00a0It is Holbrook’s version of a globe manual and catalog all wrapped into one, and it it an extremely difficult to find item. \u00a0 This book is rarer than the Joslin or Andrews manuals because this was not given away for free but rather purchased separately for an additional charge. \u00a0 This copy is from 1871 but it was originally published in the mid 1860’s.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0It is bound on stiff boards, with a wonderful illustration on the cover a virtual cabinet of curiosities of planetary models is represented, \u00a0perhaps my goal as a collector should be to re create this photo with collected apparatus? \u00a0The pages are filled with over 20 additional illustrations of globes, maps and planetary models in addition to chapters devoted to their use and virtue as teaching aids.
\n<\/a><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0So, \u00a0here’s how it went, \u00a0I do a lot of different Ebay searches, and last week during one of my searches I found this book tucked away as a 7 day auction in a category labeled ” educational books” this catchall category was ripe for auctions that could have done better in another more specific category. \u00a0When I saw the auction it already had an opening bid, \u00a0the person who had bid on the item had also recently competed intensely for a Holbrook hemisphere globe just the week before, but lost. I added this to my watch list and waited for the end. \u00a0Of course the end was inconvenient a time when I’d be at work. \u00a0Never fear I was sniping anyhow. Is there any other way to bid? \u00a0 In the end it was rather anticlimactic . \u00a0 I was the only other bidder, \u00a0I believe this owes to the mis- categorization on Ebay. \u00a0 I’ve had sever great finds due to these types of situations, \u00a0always a great thing ! I believe if correctly listed it would have gone much higher in a different \u00a0category. <\/p>\n

<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Over the past decade I’ve been working to assemble as many catalogs , pamphlets , and manuals pertaining to American globes as I can, \u00a0with an emphasis on materials from before 1930. \u00a0To date I have amassed 40 plus items. \u00a0Separately they are nothing special, but together they are a collection all their own that I want to use to better understand the globes and planetaria themselves . \u00a0 \u00a0I find it endlessly fascinating to put these objects in context, \u00a0knowing how they were used and where is an interesting story. \u00a0Seeing how globes morphed from a statement of knowledge and prosperity during James Wilson’s time to the simple educational appliance advertised by Weber Costello, and Replogle is an interesting journey.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Below are a sampling of some of the items in my “globe library”.<\/p>\n

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