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[WOODWARD, LONDON, c.1840]
A NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Published By G. Woodward, LONDON
A 50cm. diameter facsimile terrestrial table globe, the twelve copied gores and two polar calottes uncoloured and poorly aligned, with applied equatorial graduated in degrees but unlabelled, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with symbols, the oceans with an improved analemma and showing the tracks of Cooks three voyages of discovery in 1771, 1773 and 1780, with numerous details such as Palmyras I. uninhabited no fresh water, H.M.S. Guardia struck hereabout and Manuel Rodrigues R. according to Anson, the continents with numerous details of rivers, deserts, mountains, towns and cities (gores poorly aligned in many places, some small varnish loss, four plugged and brown-painted holes approx 0.7cm. dia. in Arabian Ocean, other areas of discolouration) with ebonised fruitwood finial and raised on a short brass support atop an ebonised baluster turned column and plinth base
82cm. high
A NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Published By G. Woodward, LONDON
A 50cm. diameter facsimile terrestrial table globe, the twelve copied gores and two polar calottes uncoloured and poorly aligned, with applied equatorial graduated in degrees but unlabelled, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with symbols, the oceans with an improved analemma and showing the tracks of Cooks three voyages of discovery in 1771, 1773 and 1780, with numerous details such as Palmyras I. uninhabited no fresh water, H.M.S. Guardia struck hereabout and Manuel Rodrigues R. according to Anson, the continents with numerous details of rivers, deserts, mountains, towns and cities (gores poorly aligned in many places, some small varnish loss, four plugged and brown-painted holes approx 0.7cm. dia. in Arabian Ocean, other areas of discolouration) with ebonised fruitwood finial and raised on a short brass support atop an ebonised baluster turned column and plinth base
82cm. high