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A New Accurate, and Compleat TERRESTRIAL GLOBE accompanying the GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE [..]mally laid down By the late JAMES FERGUSON, F.R.S. [....] by G. WRIGHT and made by W. BARDIN, Fleet Street LONDON Published as the Act directs by Harrison & C.oN.o18, Paternoster Row, Aug.t1.st1783
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BARDIN, William, London, 1783
A New Accurate, and Compleat TERRESTRIAL GLOBE accompanying the GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE [..]mally laid down By the late JAMES FERGUSON, F.R.S. [....] by G. WRIGHT and made by W. BARDIN, Fleet Street LONDON Published as the Act directs by Harrison & C.oN.o18, Paternoster Row, Aug.t1.st1783
A good 10-inch (25.4cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, the equatorial graduated in degrees, hours and minutes, the Greenwich Meridian graduated in degrees but unlabelled, the ecliptic graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, the oceans with ocean currents and Monsoons in the Indian Ocean, with the tracks of various explorers such as Cook, Anson and Furneaux with various notes, the continents with nation states hand-outlined in green, blue and orange and showing towns, cities, mountains in pictorial relief, rivers and the Chinese Wall, with various detailed notes, Australia and New Zealand shown complete, the former attached to Tasmania and with little detail, Central America labelled NEW SPAIN, much of Canada with no detail and with no northern coastline, but showing New Denmark, New North Wales, New South Wales, NEW BRITAIN and Eskimaux (much faded detail and old rubbing, discolouration and spotting, neat repair to Polynesia and old minor cracks to the middle East, much of the detail at the poles obscured), with a printed hour dial at each pole, mounted in an engraved brass meridian circle (remnants of thin green paint) the stained mahogany horizon with colour copied horizon paper ring showing degrees, compass directions, days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac (the original with green staining, minor tears and scratches) on four baluster turned legs united by cross stretchers -- 13½in. (34.3cm.) high
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A New Accurate, and Compleat TERRESTRIAL GLOBE accompanying the GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE [..]mally laid down By the late JAMES FERGUSON, F.R.S. [....] by G. WRIGHT and made by W. BARDIN, Fleet Street LONDON Published as the Act directs by Harrison & C.
A good 10-inch (25.4cm.) diameter terrestrial table globe made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, the equatorial graduated in degrees, hours and minutes, the Greenwich Meridian graduated in degrees but unlabelled, the ecliptic graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, the oceans with ocean currents and Monsoons in the Indian Ocean, with the tracks of various explorers such as Cook, Anson and Furneaux with various notes, the continents with nation states hand-outlined in green, blue and orange and showing towns, cities, mountains in pictorial relief, rivers and the Chinese Wall, with various detailed notes, Australia and New Zealand shown complete, the former attached to Tasmania and with little detail, Central America labelled NEW SPAIN, much of Canada with no detail and with no northern coastline, but showing New Denmark, New North Wales, New South Wales, NEW BRITAIN and Eskimaux (much faded detail and old rubbing, discolouration and spotting, neat repair to Polynesia and old minor cracks to the middle East, much of the detail at the poles obscured), with a printed hour dial at each pole, mounted in an engraved brass meridian circle (remnants of thin green paint) the stained mahogany horizon with colour copied horizon paper ring showing degrees, compass directions, days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac (the original with green staining, minor tears and scratches) on four baluster turned legs united by cross stretchers -- 13½in. (34.3cm.) high
See Colour Illustration