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DELAMARCHE, Flix, Paris, 1855
A pair of 8in. (21.5cm.) diameter table globes, the terrestrial GLOBE ADOPT PAR LE CONSEIL DE L'UNIVERSIT Maison DELAMARCHE Rue Serpente, 25 PARIS, 1855, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, the Paris meridian graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with symbols, the continents outlined in green with some nation states delineated in orange; the celestial GLOBE CELESTE Approuv par l'Univesit Par A. Delamarche 7, Rue du Balloiv, a further note reading Les positions des toiles sont calcules pour 1erJanvier 1850 , made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with symbols, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments with stars shown to six orders of magnitude and labelled with Greek letters or names in French (long crack in southern hemisphere), both spheres mounted with papered pasteboard meridian circle and horizon ring, the celestial also with hour dial, all edged in red, the meridian circle with CLIMATS D'HEURES and CLIMATS DE MOIS and degrees of elevation from the Poles, the horizon graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac with pictures and symbols for the latter, further with degrees and wind directions, raised on four papered pasteboard quadrant supports edged in red showing the latitudes and longitudes for sixteen cities (both spheres and mountings covered in smoke damage with resultant obscuring of detail, numerous small areas of paper loss, some surface abrasions), raised on a simple turned ebonised column and plinth base -- 18in. (47cm.) high
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A pair of 8in. (21.5cm.) diameter table globes, the terrestrial GLOBE ADOPT PAR LE CONSEIL DE L'UNIVERSIT Maison DELAMARCHE Rue Serpente, 25 PARIS, 1855, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, the Paris meridian graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with symbols, the continents outlined in green with some nation states delineated in orange; the celestial GLOBE CELESTE Approuv par l'Univesit Par A. Delamarche 7, Rue du Balloiv, a further note reading Les positions des toiles sont calcules pour 1
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