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BY SMITH & SON, LONDON, CIRCA 1880
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A 10-inch (25.4cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe
by Smith & Son, London, circa 1880
The cartouche reading SMITH'S TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Containing all the MOST RECENT DISCOVERIES. LONDON. SMITH & SON, 63. CHARING CROSSmade up of twelve hand coloured engraved gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, the meridian of Greenwich ungraduated, the oceans with an analemma and the tracks of Captain Cook's three exploratory voyages, the Antarctic with partial segments of coastline and Mt. Erebus An active vol 12,400 ft high, the continents with some nation states delicately outlined in green and red and showing rivers, mountains, deserts, towns and cities, Cyprus shown as English, the Congo State not shown in Africa (several neat repairs, some redrawing, much of North-Eastern Asia with no detail beyond impressionistically redrawn rivers) with stamped brass meridian half-circle graduated 90-0-90 to a baluster turned fruitwood column and concave triform base with three bun feet
15in. (40cm.) high
by Smith & Son, London, circa 1880
The cartouche reading SMITH'S TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Containing all the MOST RECENT DISCOVERIES. LONDON. SMITH & SON, 63. CHARING CROSSmade up of twelve hand coloured engraved gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, the meridian of Greenwich ungraduated, the oceans with an analemma and the tracks of Captain Cook's three exploratory voyages, the Antarctic with partial segments of coastline and Mt. Erebus An active vol 12,400 ft high, the continents with some nation states delicately outlined in green and red and showing rivers, mountains, deserts, towns and cities, Cyprus shown as English, the Congo State not shown in Africa (several neat repairs, some redrawing, much of North-Eastern Asia with no detail beyond impressionistically redrawn rivers) with stamped brass meridian half-circle graduated 90-0-90 to a baluster turned fruitwood column and concave triform base with three bun feet
15in. (40cm.) high