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NEWTON & Son, London, 1850
A fine pair of 10-inch (25.4cm.) diameter table globes, the terrestrial NEWTON'S New and Improved TERRESTRIAL GLOBE DRAWN FROM THE Surveys of the most esteemed Navigators and Travellers NEWTON and SON Chancery Lane & 3 Fleet S.tTemple Bar, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, the meridian at 30°W graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, the oceans with an analemma, the Antarctic showing coastline for Graham's Land/Trinity Land, Enderby's Land and South Victoria Land, the continents outlined in green and red, with some nation states outlined and lightly shaded in green and showing rivers, mountains, deserts, towns and cities, Tasmania labelled VAN DIEMEN LAND, Alaska labelled RUSSIAN AMERICA, Canada showing the territories of various native tribes, Greenland with no northern coastline (some abrasions, scratches and rubing with small cracks in the Indian Ocean); the celestial NEWTON'S NEW AND IMPROVED CELESTIAL GLOBE on which all the Stars taken from the best Authorities are recalculated and accurately laid down Manufactured by NEWTON & SON Chancery Lane & 3 Fleet S.tTemple Bar London Publisdhed June 1850, made up of twleve green and yellow engraved gores and two polar calottes laid to the celestial poles, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, the colures graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments, the stars shown to six orders of magnitude, some named with (mostly) Arabic names (scratches and light abrasions, some varnish loss, small cracks at 270° on the equator); both globes with stamped brass meridian half circle raised on a baluster turnbed mahogany column and circular plinth base -- 14¼in. (36.2cm.) high
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