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[WOODWARD, George, c.1850]
A 14-inch (35.5cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe, made up of twelve hand-coloured, copied and enlarged facsimile gores and two polar calottes, unsigned, but probably originally by George Woodward, the area where the trade label would be in the northern Pacific left blank and with no detail, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, the meridian of Ferro graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, the oceans with an analemma and the tracks of various explorers including those of Vancouver, Biscoe, Gore and Cook, the continents hand-outlined in green, the interior of the coastline outlined in yellow, showing numerous details including towns, cities, rivers, mountains, forts, copper mines, North American native territories and numerous other details of interest (some areas of dicolouration), with modern stamped brass meridian ring, the fruitwood horizon with colour copied paper ring graduated in degrees of amplitude and azimuth, days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac with compass directions, on four baluster turned legs united by cross stretchers -- 21½in. (53.3cm.) high
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A 14-inch (35.5cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe, made up of twelve hand-coloured, copied and enlarged facsimile gores and two polar calottes, unsigned, but probably originally by George Woodward, the area where the trade label would be in the northern Pacific left blank and with no detail, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, the meridian of Ferro graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, the oceans with an analemma and the tracks of various explorers including those of Vancouver, Biscoe, Gore and Cook, the continents hand-outlined in green, the interior of the coastline outlined in yellow, showing numerous details including towns, cities, rivers, mountains, forts, copper mines, North American native territories and numerous other details of interest (some areas of dicolouration), with modern stamped brass meridian ring, the fruitwood horizon with colour copied paper ring graduated in degrees of amplitude and azimuth, days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac with compass directions, on four baluster turned legs united by cross stretchers -- 21½in. (53.3cm.) high
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