Section 9 Henze's Erd-Globus (Still Image)

Section 9 Henze's Erd-Globus

An 1891 map of East Asia, with an especially clear map of Sahalin Island and the surrounding region, which Anthony Chekhov journeyed through during the cholera outbreak hitting the area in 1889.

The map “Section 9 Henze’s Urde-Globus” is one of 24 globe gores printed on thin paper. According to the David Rumsey Collection, between 1885 ad 1890 the magazines included segments for a German terrestrial globe, which–when collected in their entirety–could be mounted by the publisher for a fee. Very few completed globes are known to remain in existence, and tend to be found in such esteemed locations as the director’s room of the Museum of Natural History in Vienna, and the Duke of Ftirstenberg’s castle. What makes it of special interest for my project–charting Anthony Chekhov’s flight from cholera in 1890, and its impact on his response to the Russian outbreak nearing his district in 1892–is the inclusion of trade routes. On board the steamer “Baikal” in 1890, Chekhov describes the quarantines shutting off ports in the region, especially Japan, and fear of cholera in the nearest cities. The map reveals that Chekhov lists the cities in the order he could expect to experience them on his journey home–”Vladivostok, Japan, Shanghai, Tchifu, Suez,” as he describes the spread of fear of cholera, and just how drastically different the experience would be from his 3,000 mile, predominantly land-based journey to Saharin, in the first place. In particular, the map reveals that essentially all routes from Vladivostok would have expected to port in Japan, and indeed, just how unnatural–even risky–it would have been to attempt to hold out for any port beyond Japan, without stopping at one of Japan’s many ports, first. This belies the full extent of the fear of cholera, and the severity of the pandemic to encourage such a revenue-losing policy amongst an industry dependent on international trade and enterprise.

Henze, Adolf

David Rumsey Collection, Source URL: https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~330422~90098953:Section-9-Henze-s-Erd-Globus-?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No&qvq=q:Asia%201890;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=3&trs=40#.

Adolf Henze

1891

David Rumsey Collection

For "Pub references," read two pages of magazine ‘Illustrierter Anzeiger für Contor und Bureau:" https://rumsey5.s3.amazonaws.com/Henze.pdf.

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

German

Globe gores

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

Gores for a globe, including the poles.

Prints of a terrestrial globe, intended to be collected by the subscribers of a periodical over the course of six years and ultimately mounted onto a surface, or a balloon, to comprise a full-size globe.

20 x 30 cm