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SILBERRAD, Charles, London, 1815
SILBERRAD 34 ALDGATE LONDON 1815
A 2-inch (7cm.) diameter terrestrial pocket globe made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, the equator graduated in hours twice and degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days with symbols for the houses of the Zodiac, the Meridian of London graduated in degrees, the oceans showing trade winds and Cook's Track and Anson's Going Out and Anson's Return, the continents delicately coloured in green, pink and yellow, no North Canadian coastline, China with the Great Wall, South Africa labelled Country of the Hottentots, no Antarctic (neat repair to North Pole) with steel axis pins in spherical fishskin-covered case with three hooks and eyes (one hook missing, reapired cracks) the inside laid with two sets of twelve celestail gores and two polar calottes, coloured green, the ecliptic graduated in days with symbols for the houses of the Zodiac, the equinoctial and colures graduated in degrees but unlabelled, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and some scientific instruments (long repaired crack to one hemisphere)
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SILBERRAD 34 ALDGATE LONDON 1815
A 2-inch (7cm.) diameter terrestrial pocket globe made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, the equator graduated in hours twice and degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days with symbols for the houses of the Zodiac, the Meridian of London graduated in degrees, the oceans showing trade winds and Cook's Track and Anson's Going Out and Anson's Return, the continents delicately coloured in green, pink and yellow, no North Canadian coastline, China with the Great Wall, South Africa labelled Country of the Hottentots, no Antarctic (neat repair to North Pole) with steel axis pins in spherical fishskin-covered case with three hooks and eyes (one hook missing, reapired cracks) the inside laid with two sets of twelve celestail gores and two polar calottes, coloured green, the ecliptic graduated in days with symbols for the houses of the Zodiac, the equinoctial and colures graduated in degrees but unlabelled, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and some scientific instruments (long repaired crack to one hemisphere)
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