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A rare mid 18th-Century astronomical engraving,
with text The best Globes of 3. 9. 12. 17. & 27 Inches Diameter from the latest observations & discoveries. Made and Sold by Mary Senex over against St Dunstans Church in Fleet Street London. NB her Globes may be known from all others, by having Bayers letters of refference incerted on the Coelestial, & the Rhumb lines on the Terrestrial, besides other improvements , No.IV, with 63 diagrams showing various astronomical phenomena and characteristics, the Moon, armillary spheres, globe gore arrangement, an astronomical quadrant, a Sutton quadrant and others -- 38 x 36cm. (15 x 14 1/8in.) framed and glazed
with text The best Globes of 3. 9. 12. 17. & 27 Inches Diameter from the latest observations & discoveries. Made and Sold by Mary Senex over against S
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