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Loring, Josiah, Boston, 1844
Loring's TERRESTRIAL GLOBE containing all THE LATEST DISCOVERIES AND Geographical Improvements, also the Tracks of the most celebrated Circumnavigators. Compiled from Smith's new English Globe, with additions and improvements by Annin & Smith. BOSTON Josiah Loring 136 Washington St 1844.
A 12-inch (30.5cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of two sets of twelve coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, the anti-meridian graduated in degrees, the equatorial graduated in degrees, hours and minutes, the ecliptic graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, the oceans with an analemma and showing the tracks of various explorers such as Cook, La Perouse and Gore, the Antarctic showing little detail beyond Enderby's Land and Wilkes' Land, the continents finely detailed and shaded in green and yellow with nation states finely outlined in red ( general discolouration and rubbing, some small areas of paper loss, large area of paper and plaster loss in the middle east, paper and plaster loss to both poles) both poles with printed hour dial, with graduated brass meridian circle, held in the coloured papered horizon, graduated in degrees of amplitude and azimuth, with compass points, days of the month and days of the houses of the Zodiac (general rubbing and discolouration with some areas of paper loss, splits at both points where the meridian passes through) on four baluster-turned mahogany legs united by cross-stretchers -- 17½in. (44.4cm.) high
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Loring's TERRESTRIAL GLOBE containing all THE LATEST DISCOVERIES AND Geographical Improvements, also the Tracks of the most celebrated Circumnavigators. Compiled from Smith's new English Globe, with additions and improvements by Annin & Smith. BOSTON Josiah Loring 136 Washington St 1844.
A 12-inch (30.5cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of two sets of twelve coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, the anti-meridian graduated in degrees, the equatorial graduated in degrees, hours and minutes, the ecliptic graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, the oceans with an analemma and showing the tracks of various explorers such as Cook, La Perouse and Gore, the Antarctic showing little detail beyond Enderby's Land and Wilkes' Land, the continents finely detailed and shaded in green and yellow with nation states finely outlined in red ( general discolouration and rubbing, some small areas of paper loss, large area of paper and plaster loss in the middle east, paper and plaster loss to both poles) both poles with printed hour dial, with graduated brass meridian circle, held in the coloured papered horizon, graduated in degrees of amplitude and azimuth, with compass points, days of the month and days of the houses of the Zodiac (general rubbing and discolouration with some areas of paper loss, splits at both points where the meridian passes through) on four baluster-turned mahogany legs united by cross-stretchers -- 17½in. (44.4cm.) high
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