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PERGAMON PRESS/RÄTH, PAUL/GREAVES & THOMAS, Oxford/LEIPZIG/London, 1963/2000 PERGAMON MOON GLOBE The map material was prepared by the Central Research Institute of Geodesy, Aerial Photography and Cartography together with the Shternberg State Astronomic Institute of the U.S.S.R. All the names shown have been adopted by the International Astronomical Union. The names of those formations not visible from the Earth are printed in red. PUBLISHED BY PERGAMON PRESS OXFORD, LONDON, NEW YORK, PARIS Produced by Paul Räth Verlag, Leipzig. Printed by VEB Hermann Haack, Gotha 64 500 A 13-inch (33cm.) diameter lunar globe by Greaves & Thomas and bearing their red crown stamp mark, made from the acetates of the unissued Pergamon globe of 1963, made up of twelve chromolithographed green and cream gores, two and a half with no detail, and two polar calottes, the equatorial and equinoctial colure graduated in degrees, the surface shown in photographic relief with place names in red, with a steel finial and raised on a circular ebonised wood base -- 16½in. (41.9cm.) high See Colour Illustration