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Merzbach & Falk, Brussels, 1881
A fine pair of 12-inch (30.5cm.) diameter table globes, the terrestrial Merzbach & Falk Authorities extant; Exhibiting the late Discoveries towards the NORTH POLE, and every improvement in Geography to the present Time. LONDON. Made & Sold by Merzbach & Falk made up of twelve hand-coloured, finely engraved gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees of amplitude and azimuth, hours and minutes, the meridian of Greenwich ungraduated, the equinoctial colure graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, the oceans with an analemma, trade winds, and the tracks of numerous explorers including those of Cook, Gore, Clerke, Vancouver, De La Perouse, Pickersgill, Ross and Phipps, with numerous notes and dates and other notes such as I. Grande its existence doubtful, Gough's I. according to Cap.t Hodgson 1783 and many others. On three mahogany quadrant supports to turned central pillar with three cabriole legs terminating in pad feet, the original uncoloured engraved compass mounted beneath on cross stretchers.
35 in. (89 cm.), high
A fine pair of 12-inch (30.5cm.) diameter table globes, the terrestrial Merzbach & Falk Authorities extant; Exhibiting the late Discoveries towards the NORTH POLE, and every improvement in Geography to the present Time. LONDON. Made & Sold by Merzbach & Falk made up of twelve hand-coloured, finely engraved gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees of amplitude and azimuth, hours and minutes, the meridian of Greenwich ungraduated, the equinoctial colure graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, the oceans with an analemma, trade winds, and the tracks of numerous explorers including those of Cook, Gore, Clerke, Vancouver, De La Perouse, Pickersgill, Ross and Phipps, with numerous notes and dates and other notes such as I. Grande its existence doubtful, Gough's I. according to Cap.
35 in. (89 cm.), high