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PHILIP & Son, George, London
PHILIPS' 12 INCH TERRESTRIAL GLOBE LONDON GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE COPYRIGHT GEORGE PHILIP & SON, LTD. 32 FLEET STREET Printed in Great Britain [c.1930]
A 12-inch (30.5cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve chromolithographed gores and two polar calottes, the equatorial and prime meridian graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with symbols, the oceans showing principal steamship routes with ports of arrival and departure and distances in nautical miles, the continents with nation states variously coloured and showing mountains, rivers, towns, cities, railway lines and principal air mail routes (areas of discolouration, some scratches and wrinkling) with engraved brass meridian circle, the ebonised fruitwood horizon with applied hand-coloured copied ring, on four baluster turned legs united by turned cross stretchers -- 17¾in. (45.1cm.) high
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PHILIPS' 12 INCH TERRESTRIAL GLOBE LONDON GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE COPYRIGHT GEORGE PHILIP & SON, L
A 12-inch (30.5cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve chromolithographed gores and two polar calottes, the equatorial and prime meridian graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with symbols, the oceans showing principal steamship routes with ports of arrival and departure and distances in nautical miles, the continents with nation states variously coloured and showing mountains, rivers, towns, cities, railway lines and principal air mail routes (areas of discolouration, some scratches and wrinkling) with engraved brass meridian circle, the ebonised fruitwood horizon with applied hand-coloured copied ring, on four baluster turned legs united by turned cross stretchers -- 17¾in. (45.1cm.) high
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