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DARTON & CO., LONDON, 1809
An attractive pair of 2¾-inch (7cm.) diameter miniature table globes, the terrestrial DARTON & C.o 55 Gracechurch Street LONDON 1809 made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, the Meridian of London ungraduated but with a wind rose, the equinoctial colure graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, the oceans showing trade winds, the antipodes of London and the tracks of Admiral Anson and Cook's first voyage between Java and Tierra del Fuego only, a note by the Sandwich Islands Owhyhee Here C. Cook was Kill'd 14 Feby 1779, Antarctica with no land shown and labelled FROZEN OCEAN, the continents delicately outlined in green, red and orange and shaded yellow and orange, nation states delineated in dotted outline, showing some mountains in pictorial relief, rivers and cities, China with the Great Wall, northern India labelled MOGULS EMPIRE, Australia labelled NEW HOLLAND, Tasmania labelled Dimens Ld, Africa showing NEGROLAND, CAFFRES and Country of the Hotentots, South America showing Gold Mines and labelled Terra Firma in the North, Canada with no northern coastline (darkened minor damage in Pacific, neat repair to South Pole, other minor patches of discolouration); the celestial A Correct Globe with y.e New Cons:tellations of D.r Halley & c. made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores laid to the celestial poles, the equatorial and vernal equinoctial colure graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac but unlabelled apart from sigils, the stars shown in a table to six orders of magnitude, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures (minor areas of discolouration beneath new varnish); both spheres with an engraved brass meridian circle graduated in four quadrants, in an attractive ivory stand, the horizon stamped with degrees in four quadrants and days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac with names, raised on four baluster turned legs united by cross stretchers to a turned base and meridian support, on four bun feet -- 4½in. (11.5cm.) high
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An attractive pair of 2¾-inch (7cm.) diameter miniature table globes, the terrestrial DARTON & C.o 55 Gracechurch Street LONDON 1809 made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, the Meridian of London ungraduated but with a wind rose, the equinoctial colure graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, the oceans showing trade winds, the antipodes of London and the tracks of Admiral Anson and Cook's first voyage between Java and Tierra del Fuego only, a note by the Sandwich Islands Owhyhee Here C. Cook was Kill'd 14 Feby 1779, Antarctica with no land shown and labelled FROZEN OCEAN, the continents delicately outlined in green, red and orange and shaded yellow and orange, nation states delineated in dotted outline, showing some mountains in pictorial relief, rivers and cities, China with the Great Wall, northern India labelled MOGULS EMPIRE, Australia labelled NEW HOLLAND, Tasmania labelled Dimens Ld, Africa showing NEGROLAND, CAFFRES and Country of the Hotentots, South America showing Gold Mines and labelled Terra Firma in the North, Canada with no northern coastline (darkened minor damage in Pacific, neat repair to South Pole, other minor patches of discolouration); the celestial A Correct Globe with y.e New Cons:tellations of D.r Halley & c. made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores laid to the celestial poles, the equatorial and vernal equinoctial colure graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac but unlabelled apart from sigils, the stars shown in a table to six orders of magnitude, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures (minor areas of discolouration beneath new varnish); both spheres with an engraved brass meridian circle graduated in four quadrants, in an attractive ivory stand, the horizon stamped with degrees in four quadrants and days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac with names, raised on four baluster turned legs united by cross stretchers to a turned base and meridian support, on four bun feet -- 4½in. (11.5cm.) high
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