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An unusual 19th-Century Italian armillary sphere,
unsigned, the 1½-inch (3.8cm.) diameter terrestrial globe at the centre made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores (much discolouration, paper loss and lifting to gores) with separate arms for the papered sun and moon discs, within red-painted iron polar, tropic and equatorial circles, each papered on the upper surface, the tropic and equatorial circles graduated in degrees, with a fixed papered ecliptic band graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, with a line for the Orbita dela luna (general discolouration and some paper loss to all), raised on a short curved iron arm to an ebonised baluster-turned plinth base -- 14½in. (36.8cm.) high
See Colour Illustration
unsigned, the 1½-inch (3.8cm.) diameter terrestrial globe at the centre made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores (much discolouration, paper loss and lifting to gores) with separate arms for the papered sun and moon discs, within red-painted iron polar, tropic and equatorial circles, each papered on the upper surface, the tropic and equatorial circles graduated in degrees, with a fixed papered ecliptic band graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, with a line for the Orbita dela luna (general discolouration and some paper loss to all), raised on a short curved iron arm to an ebonised baluster-turned plinth base -- 14½in. (36.8cm.) high
See Colour Illustration
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