Handsome Set of Globe Gores
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World Map. SCHERER, Heinrich
[Munich, 1700]
Typus Totius Orbis Terraquei Geographice Delineatus.
8 ½ x 13 ¾ inches
Fine hand color; excellent condition
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Handsome Pair of Large, 18th Century, English Globes
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Terrestrial & Celestial Globe Pair. ADAMS, Dudley & George
[London, 1793]
Terrestrial: Britanniarum Regi Augustissimo Georgio Tertio… Globii in hunc Terrestrem, Omnes hactenus exploratos terrarum tractas,…Made by D. Adams…Charing Cross, London. 1793. .
Celestial: Britanniarum Regi Augustissimo Georgio Tertio…Globum hunc Caelestem, …Londini apud G. Adams, artificem Regium in vico Fleet Street [Undated].
Each 18 inches (46 cm.) diameter & 33 inches (84 cm.) total height; mounted on three-legged wooden stands with compasses in bases, each with finely engraved directional cards; original, movable brass meridians, each fitted with equator wires to assist in rotating meridians; horizon ring, resting on four wooden arms connected to base, paper-covered with finely engraved symbols of zodiacal constellations and various statistics for time calculations; celestial globe with movable brass declination circle, on which is brass symbol of the sun; global maps each consist of 24 original-colored gores and 2 polar calottes; dark speckling, occasionally heavy on terrestrial globe (none on celestial), yet virtually all place names legible; mended cracked area in lower Atlantic Ocean area on terrestrial about 4 x 5 inches with minor losses here and in few, other areas on both terrestrial and celestial, still overall very good.
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Exquisite Pair of Swedish Globes
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Globe Pair. AKERMAN, A./ AKREL, C.F.
[Stockholm, 1824]
[Terrestrial] Jord-Glob Utgifven ar 1824. [Celestial] Himmels Glob utgifven ar 1824.
Both 10 in. diam.; 21 in. high
Horizon ring supported by four quadrants mounted with lacquered brass pressed floral rosettes, raised on a baluster-turned, cherrywood central column on three legs. Both globes in excellent condition with bright patina. Terrestrial globe with outline and full body color; celestial with engraved figures for constellations colored yellow against blue-green background.
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A Beautiful & Interesting Table Globe
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Terrestrial Globe/ Pacific Geography. DELAMARCHE, Felix
[Paris, 1832]
Globe Terrestre Dresse par Fx. Delamrche, Succr. de R. De Vaugondy 1832.
9 ½ inches (24 cm.) diameter; 21 inches (53 cm.) total height.
Single pedestal globe with horizon ring, armature & meridian all of wood, wear and staining on meridian at point where fits into stand, some chipping at extremities, else fine; globe with vibrant original color and clear, sharp patina; some abrasion & losses, mostly in lower and upper extremities; overall very good plus condition.
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Rare, Inflatable Terrestrial Globe
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Globe/ Cartographic Invention. POCOCK, G. & E.
[Bristol, c. 1830]
G. Pocock's Portable Globe Twelve Feet in circumference.
Diameter approx. 48 inches when inflated; two sets of 12 gores on paper, printed by color lithography, 8 5/8-inch diameter ring at base; housed in original case, somewhat worn with some text rubbed away; paper of globe bright and fresh, some wear and worming mainly at base but excellent of this kind.
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