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A good pair of mid 19th-Century Scottish 6-inch diameter table globes
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A good pair of mid 19th-Century Scottish 6-inch diameter table globes
KIRKWOOD'S NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE with the very latest DISCOVERIES Published by Kirkwood & Son 11 So.S.tAndrew S.tEdin.r made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, with graduated equatorial, ecliptic and equinoctial colure, the oceans with an analemma and some islands with notes such as Isles discovered by la Perouse, Davis's Land or Easter I. of Cook Mar.1774 and Owhyhee where Cap.tCook was killed in February 1779 , the Antarctic with no land save small stretches of coastline for Graham Land and Enderby's Land, the latter Disc.dby Biscoe 1831 , the continents with some nation states delicately outlined in red, others shaded in blue or green, well-detailed with towns, cities, rivers and lakes;
KIRKWOOD'S NEW CELESTIAL GLOBE made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores laid to the ecliptic poles, the axis through the celestial poles, with graduated equatorial, ecliptic and colures, the pictorial constellations with stars to five orders of magnitude, some named, others labelled with Arabic numerals or Greek or Roman characters;
both with a stamped brass hour dial and meridian in a [?]later four legged stand with cross-stretchers and hand-coloured reproduction horizon paper with degrees, compass directions, days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac
10in. (25.6cm.) high (2)
KIRKWOOD'S NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE with the very latest DISCOVERIES Published by Kirkwood & Son 11 So.S.
KIRKWOOD'S NEW CELESTIAL GLOBE made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores laid to the ecliptic poles, the axis through the celestial poles, with graduated equatorial, ecliptic and colures, the pictorial constellations with stars to five orders of magnitude, some named, others labelled with Arabic numerals or Greek or Roman characters;
both with a stamped brass hour dial and meridian in a [?]later four legged stand with cross-stretchers and hand-coloured reproduction horizon paper with degrees, compass directions, days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac
10in. (25.6cm.) high (2)