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[GLOBE]. LORING, Josiah (1775-1840). Loring's Terrestrial Globe containing all the late 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. Revised by Roswell Park, 1846. Manufactured by Gilman Joslin, Boston. 1846. 12-inch (30.5 cm) diameter terrestrial globe, made up of twelve hand-colored engraved gores and one (North) polar calotte, the equatorial graduated in degrees, hours and minutes, the ecliptic graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, the North and South Poles printed with hour circles (some old abrasions, some areas repaired with portions re-drawn and colored), with engraved brass meridian circle, the papered horizon ring graduated in degrees in both directions, days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, on four baluster-turned fruitwood legs united by turned cross stretchers, 18 inches overall height. Sold not subject to return.
Loring globes were engraved by William B. Annin (d. 1839) and George G. Smith, but were sold by Loring. The pair copied the globes of C. Smith and Son, London, as credited on the cartouche, updating and improving them. From about 1839 Loring was assisted by Gilman Joslin (1804-1886), another Boston bookseller, who sold them under his own name following Loring's death in 1840. See E. Dekker and P. van der Krogt, Globes from The Western World (London, 1993), pp. 126, 139-40.
Loring globes were engraved by William B. Annin (d. 1839) and George G. Smith, but were sold by Loring. The pair copied the globes of C. Smith and Son, London, as credited on the cartouche, updating and improving them. From about 1839 Loring was assisted by Gilman Joslin (1804-1886), another Boston bookseller, who sold them under his own name following Loring's death in 1840. See E. Dekker and P. van der Krogt, Globes from The Western World (London, 1993), pp. 126, 139-40.