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MOORE & NIMS (fl.1858-1868), Troy, New York
THE FRANKLIN TERRESTRIAL GLOBE 10 INCHES IN DIAMETER CONTAINING ALL THE Geographical Divisions & POLITICAL BOUNDARIES to the present date carefully compiled from the best authorities MOORE & NIMS TRY, N.Y. [c.1860]
A 10-inch (26.5cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve delicately and attractively hand-coloured engraved gores, the equator graduated in degrees and hours, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with symbols, the oceans showing details of numerous exploratory expeditions with notes and dates, including those of Cook, Wilkes, Columbus and the Mayflower, an analemma, the San Francisco-Aspinwall, Aspinwall-New York steamship route, and the first trans-Atlantic submarine telegraph cable laid down in 1860, various notes such as details of Napolean Bonaparte's exile and subsequent death on St Helena, and The Pacific Ocean was discovered by Balboa in 1513. First navigated by Magellan in 1520. It extends from North to South 7500 miles and from east to west 10 000 miles, the continents with nation states variously and delicately coloured in outline and showing rivers, mountains, towns and cities, China showing the Great Wall, New Zealand labelled NEW ULSTER, NEW MUNSTER and NEW LEINSTER, Alaska labelled RUSSIAN AMERICA, the Antarctic with partial coastline, the North Polar calotte with printed hour dial with numbers I-XII twice and an iron arrow pointer (some old rubbing and discolouration, small loss of detail in places) the engraved brass meridian circle divided in four quadrants, the hand-coloured engraved papered horizon graduated in degrees twice, days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac with compass directions, on a scroll-decorated three-legged cast iron stand -- 13in. (35cm.) high; together with THE FRANKLIN GLOBE MANUAL: AN AID TO THE STUDY OF GEOGRPAHY AND ASTRONOMY WITH THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL GLOBES. TROY, N.Y.: MOORE AND NIMS, a seventy-eight page pasteboard-covered booklet to accompany the globe, Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, By MOORE & NIMS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Northern District of New York, divided into two sections: ON THE USE OF THE GLOBES and ASTRONOMY, with sections on the terrestrial and celestial globes, the solar system, atmospheric refraction, the tides and the calendar, and nine pages of exercises in the back, also advertisements for various other booklets and the full range of Franklin & Joslin globes published by Moore & Nims (tears to back three blank pages)
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THE FRANKLIN TERRESTRIAL GLOBE 10 INCHES IN DIAMETER CONTAINING ALL THE Geographical Divisions & POLITICAL BOUNDARIES to the present date carefully compiled from the best authorities MOORE & NIMS TRY, N.Y. [c.1860]
A 10-inch (26.5cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve delicately and attractively hand-coloured engraved gores, the equator graduated in degrees and hours, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with symbols, the oceans showing details of numerous exploratory expeditions with notes and dates, including those of Cook, Wilkes, Columbus and the Mayflower, an analemma, the San Francisco-Aspinwall, Aspinwall-New York steamship route, and the first trans-Atlantic submarine telegraph cable laid down in 1860, various notes such as details of Napolean Bonaparte's exile and subsequent death on St Helena, and The Pacific Ocean was discovered by Balboa in 1513. First navigated by Magellan in 1520. It extends from North to South 7500 miles and from east to west 10 000 miles, the continents with nation states variously and delicately coloured in outline and showing rivers, mountains, towns and cities, China showing the Great Wall, New Zealand labelled NEW ULSTER, NEW MUNSTER and NEW LEINSTER, Alaska labelled RUSSIAN AMERICA, the Antarctic with partial coastline, the North Polar calotte with printed hour dial with numbers I-XII twice and an iron arrow pointer (some old rubbing and discolouration, small loss of detail in places) the engraved brass meridian circle divided in four quadrants, the hand-coloured engraved papered horizon graduated in degrees twice, days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac with compass directions, on a scroll-decorated three-legged cast iron stand -- 13in. (35cm.) high; together with THE FRANKLIN GLOBE MANUAL: AN AID TO THE STUDY OF GEOGRPAHY AND ASTRONOMY WITH THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL GLOBES. TROY, N.Y.: MOORE AND NIMS, a seventy-eight page pasteboard-covered booklet to accompany the globe, Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, By MOORE & NIMS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Northern District of New York, divided into two sections: ON THE USE OF THE GLOBES and ASTRONOMY, with sections on the terrestrial and celestial globes, the solar system, atmospheric refraction, the tides and the calendar, and nine pages of exercises in the back, also advertisements for various other booklets and the full range of Franklin & Joslin globes published by Moore & Nims (tears to back three blank pages)
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