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A rare 18th-Century English 9-inch diameter terrestrial table globe
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A rare 18th-Century English 9-inch diameter terrestrial table globe
A [New] Accurate and Compleat TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Accompanying the GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE [..]mally laid down by the late [JAME]S FERGUSON, F.R.S. [Imp]rov'd by G. WRIGHT and made by W. BARDIN, Fleet Street LONDON [Published as the] Act directs by Harrison & C.oN.o18, Paternoster Row Aug.t1.st 1783 made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes with printed hour dials, with graduated equatorial, ecliptic and Greenwich meridian, the oceans with an analemma, ocean currents, Monsoons in the Indian Ocean and the tracks of Cook, Anson and Furneaux with various notes, the continents with nation states outlined in red, blue and roange, some delicately shaded, and showing towns, cities, rivers and mountains in pictorial relief, with various notes, Australia largely blank and joined with Tasmania, Canada with no northern coastline, China showing the Great Wall, with an engraved brass hour dial and later ebonised four-legged wooden stand with cross stretchers and coloure reproduced horizon paper showing degrees, compass directions, days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac
13¾in. (34.9cm.) high
A [New] Accurate and Compleat TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Accompanying the GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE [..]mally laid down by the late [JAME]S FERGUSON, F.R.S. [Imp]rov'd by G. WRIGHT and made by W. BARDIN, Fleet Street LONDON [Published as the] Act directs by Harrison & C.
13¾in. (34.9cm.) high