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DUFOUR, A.H./DIEN, CHARLES, Paris, mid 19th-Century
Dressé PAR A.H. DUFOUR 18[...] Paris Rue Hautefeuille, 13, CH. DIEN [c.1835]
A 4½-inch (11.5cm.) diameter mechanical terrestrial globe, originally from a tellurian or orrery, made from two metal hemispheres laid with two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, the Meridian of Paris and the Equatorial graduated in degrees, the ecliptic not shown, the oceans in green with no extra detail, the Antarctic with no Wilkes Land or Enderby's Land, the continents in yellow with details including rivers, mountains, towns, cities and the Great Wall of China (several areas of neat repair with some loss of detail) with rotating mechanism inside
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Dressé PAR A.H. DUFOUR 18[...] Paris Rue Hautefeuille, 13, CH. DIEN [c.1835]
A 4½-inch (11.5cm.) diameter mechanical terrestrial globe, originally from a tellurian or orrery, made from two metal hemispheres laid with two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, the Meridian of Paris and the Equatorial graduated in degrees, the ecliptic not shown, the oceans in green with no extra detail, the Antarctic with no Wilkes Land or Enderby's Land, the continents in yellow with details including rivers, mountains, towns, cities and the Great Wall of China (several areas of neat repair with some loss of detail) with rotating mechanism inside
See Colour Illustration
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