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An unusual pair of Russian collapsible globes, dated 1849,
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An unusual pair of Russian collapsible globes, dated 1849,
24cm. diameter, both with trade labels in Cyrillic and both made up of twelve linen-backed, laregely uncoloured, paper gores tied with green silk ties at either end, the terrestrial with equatorial graduated in degrees, the ecliptic and prime meridian, running through Ferro, both ungraduated, the continents with the Americas hand-outlined in blue, Europe in brown, Asia in green, Australasia in orange, showing rivers and mountians but no national boundaries, with some towns and cities marked, all text in Cyrillic (small old water damage to Eastern Siberia); the celestial with the gores converging at the ecliptic pole, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, the equatorial graduated in degrees, a chart showing the stars to six orders of magnitude plus nebulae, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments and labelled in Cyrillic with some stars labelled with Greek letters (some very light and sparse spotting)
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24cm. diameter, both with trade labels in Cyrillic and both made up of twelve linen-backed, laregely uncoloured, paper gores tied with green silk ties at either end, the terrestrial with equatorial graduated in degrees, the ecliptic and prime meridian, running through Ferro, both ungraduated, the continents with the Americas hand-outlined in blue, Europe in brown, Asia in green, Australasia in orange, showing rivers and mountians but no national boundaries, with some towns and cities marked, all text in Cyrillic (small old water damage to Eastern Siberia); the celestial with the gores converging at the ecliptic pole, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, the equatorial graduated in degrees, a chart showing the stars to six orders of magnitude plus nebulae, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments and labelled in Cyrillic with some stars labelled with Greek letters (some very light and sparse spotting)
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Special notice
Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20% (VAT inclusive) for this lot.