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See note to Lot 27 - a pair of table globes by the Delamarche atelier.
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DELAMARCHE, CHARLES-FRANÇOIS, PARIS, 1801
GLOBE TERRESTRE RÉDIGÉ astronomiquement et où se trouvent les trois voyages du Capit. COOK, ses découvertes et celles de la Peyrouse sur la Nlle Hollande la Nlle Caledie et sur la partie occident de l'Amerique Septentrionale A PARIS par C.F. Delamarche Géog. Rue du Jardinet No.13, vis-à-vis celle de l'Eperon 1801
A fine and rare 13-inch (33cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes laid on a papier-mâché and plaster sphere, the equatorial and prime meridian of Ferro graduated in individual degrees and labelled every 10°, the ecliptic graduated in individual days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils and labelled every 10 days, the oceans showing the tracks of Cook's three voyages and that of Captain Fourneaux, with numerous dates, also with notes such as by a small stretch of coastline near Hawaii Terre vue par Mendana and on the prime meridian at 50°S Americ Vespuez est venu Jusqu'ici le 3 Avril 1503, also with the antipodes of Paris and Le Grand Banc off Newfoundland, no land shown south of 57°S save a stretch of coastline for T. de Sandwich, the continents with some nation states delicately hand-outlined in orange and/or shaded in pale green and showing mountains in pictorial relief, rivers, towns and cities, Australia with partially projected southern coastline and showing various place names around the coast, Tasmania labelled Terre de Diemen, the islands of New Zealand labelled Tavay Poenamoo and Eahei Nomaye, Africa with little detail in the interior but showing some [?]caravan routes, place names and notes such as PAYS DES DATES and in South Africa HOTENTOTS and showing Mts de la Lune , North America with little detail apart from rivers and some place names in the east and with tribal areas such as Cherakis, Apaches, Teguavo and Iroquois, Labrador labelled beneath Pays des Eskimaux, Canada and Greenland with no northern coastline, the wooden horizon edged in red paint and with plain paper applied to one side, the other side with applied hand-coloured engraved paper graduated in degrees in four quadrants with the usual scale for climates and hours, the mahogany horizon with hand-coloured engraved paper ring graduated in degrees in four quadrants, days of the houses of the Zodiac with attractive pictures, and days of the month, also with thirty-two wind directions, edged in red and raised on four baluster turned ebonised wooden legs united by cross stretchers to the central meridian support, with five bun feet -- 21¾in. (55.2cm.) high
GLOBE TERRESTRE RÉDIGÉ astronomiquement et où se trouvent les trois voyages du Capit. COOK, ses découvertes et celles de la Peyrouse sur la N
A fine and rare 13-inch (33cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes laid on a papier-mâché and plaster sphere, the equatorial and prime meridian of Ferro graduated in individual degrees and labelled every 10°, the ecliptic graduated in individual days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils and labelled every 10 days, the oceans showing the tracks of Cook's three voyages and that of Captain Fourneaux, with numerous dates, also with notes such as by a small stretch of coastline near Hawaii Terre vue par Mendana and on the prime meridian at 50°S Americ Vespuez est venu Jusqu'ici le 3 Avril 1503, also with the antipodes of Paris and Le Grand Banc off Newfoundland, no land shown south of 57°S save a stretch of coastline for T. de Sandwich, the continents with some nation states delicately hand-outlined in orange and/or shaded in pale green and showing mountains in pictorial relief, rivers, towns and cities, Australia with partially projected southern coastline and showing various place names around the coast, Tasmania labelled Terre de Diemen, the islands of New Zealand labelled Tavay Poenamoo and Eahei Nomaye, Africa with little detail in the interior but showing some [?]caravan routes, place names and notes such as PAYS DES DATES and in South Africa HOTENTOTS and showing M
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