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[COPLEY, Charles, New York, 1852]
An impressive pair of 16-inch (40.7cm.) diameter modern reproduction library globes by Greaves & Thomas after those of Charles Copley, signed on the spheres near the South Pole with the crown symbol of Greaves & Thomas and on the papered horizons CONSTRUCTED BY CHARLES COPLEY, HYDROGRAPHER, NEW YORK, engraved by C.J. & F. Copley, N. York, entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1852 by Charles Copley, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York and SOLD BY E. & G.W. BLUNT, NEW YORK, both spheres made up of twelve colour-reproduced gores and two polar calottes, the terrestrial with equatorial graduated in degrees, hours and minutes, the Greenwich meridian and equinoctial colure graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, the oceans with an analemma, the Antarctic with Victoria Land Discovered by Capt.nRoss 1841, Sabrina Land, Claire Land, Adelei Land, Balleny Island and Enderby Land, the continents with some nation states delicately shaded in pink, yellow or green and showing an enormous wealth of detail including rivers, mountains, deserts, towns, cities, Alaska labelled RUSSIAN AMERICA, North America with the territories of various native tribes including the Copper Indians, Shoshones, Boonacks, Sioux and many others, Africa with little detail in the interior but with notes such as Supposed source of the R. Zaire, Tribes of Touariks, Tribes of Tibbous, Portuguese Fair, Portuguese Settlem.t and others, Tasmania labelled VAN DIEMEN LAND, the islands of New Zealand labelled NEW ULSTER and NEW MUNSTER; the celestial gores laid to the celestial poles, the equatorial graduated in degrees, hours and minutes, the colures graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac and with twilight zone, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments in yellow on a pale green ground, the stars to nine orders of magnitude with nebulae and labelled with various numbers and letters; both spheres with stamped brass hour dial and meridian ring, the papered mahogany horizon a colour reproduction graduated in degrees of altitude and azimuth with compass points, days of the week and of the houses of the Zodiac, with a note THIS HORISON is constructed for the first year after BISSEXTILE. If more accuracy is required add a quarter of a Degree towards the left hand for the second year, half a Degree for the third and a quarter of a Degree towards the right hand for Leap Year, also with figures for the equation of time and a note reading THE EQUATION of TIME, shewing how much the Clock is too Fast, or Slow, every day at Noon. The difference arises from the obliquity of the Ecliptic and the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit, also with notes relating to the constellations and the star magnitudes, and the references, these being Flamsteed, Hevelius, Piazzi, LaCaille, W. Hershell, J. Hershell and J. Dunlop, raised on two cast bronze quadrant supports to a foliate decorated tulip-shaped column with three hipped inswept legs and tulip-shaped feet with castors -- 40in. (101.6cm.) high
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