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See note to Lot 25 - a miniature terrestrial globe by Newton, Son & Berry.
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NEWTON & SON, LONDON, 1874
NEWTON'S NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE COMPILED FROM THE MOST RECENT AUTHENTIC SURVEYS OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN NAVIGATORS AND TRAVELLERS LONDON Published March 25th 1874. Manufactured by NEWTON AND SON 66, Chancery Lane. Davies [...] NEWTON & Co.3 Fleet Street
An extremely fine and impressive 25-inch (63.5cm.) diameter terrestrial library globe made up of twelve finely hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes laid on a plaster-covered hollow sphere, the equatorial graduated in individual degrees and labelled every 10°, and in hours I-XII (x2) with unlabelled four-minute subdivisions, the MERIDIAN OF LONDON ungraduated, the ecliptic graduated in individual days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils and labelled every ten days, the oceans with an analemma and little extraneous detail beyond the antipodes of London, the bank off Newfoundland and some notes by islands such as Nimrods Group Capt. Eilbech 1827 and Karakakooa I. Capt. Cook killed 1779, Antarctica with some small stretches of coastline for SOUTH VICTORIA LAND with a note for Perpendicular Barriers of Ice, GRAHAM'S LAND Biscoe 1843, Durville 1838, Compact Ice, Adelaide Land and a small stretch of dotted coastline for Clarie Supposed Land, the continents with nation states delicately outlined in green, red, blue, orange or not at all and very finely detailed with mountains, rivers, deserts, towns and cities, Papua New Guinea with partial southern coastline, the interior of Africa with little detail but showing the lakes Victoria, Albert and Tanganyika with some tributaries, various other rivers shown by dotted lines, northern Africa with caravan routes, southern Africa showing TRIBES OF BUSHMEN, North America with only the eastern states delineated, Canada well-detailed, Greenland with no northern coastline, both poles with an engraved double hour dial, the heavy stamped brass meridian graduated in four quadrants, on an extremely fine and heavy walnut library stand, the hand-coloured engraved horizon paper graduated in degrees of amplitude and azimuth, with compass points and days of the month with an equation of time, and days of the houses of the Zodiac with a star chart for the sun's apparent path along the ecliptic and stars to varying degrees of magnitude, edged in red paint, the horizon supported on four curved and cannellated quadrant supports to a short central pillar with three heavy scroll-topped inswept legs terminating in lion's-paw feet with castors, a glazed compass box held between them on turned cross stretchers, the engraved paper signed NEWTON & Co Fleet Street LONDON , graduated in degrees in four quadrants and 0-360°, the decorative central wind rose with thirty-two compass points and a blued-steel needle marked N and S -- 53¼in. (135.2cm.) high
NEWTON'S NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE COMPILED FROM THE MOST RECENT AUTHENTIC SURVEYS OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN NAVIGATORS AND TRAVELLERS LONDON Published March 25th 1874. Manufactured by NEWTON AND SON 66, Chancery Lane. Davies [...] NEWTON & C
An extremely fine and impressive 25-inch (63.5cm.) diameter terrestrial library globe made up of twelve finely hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes laid on a plaster-covered hollow sphere, the equatorial graduated in individual degrees and labelled every 10°, and in hours I-XII (x2) with unlabelled four-minute subdivisions, the MERIDIAN OF LONDON ungraduated, the ecliptic graduated in individual days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils and labelled every ten days, the oceans with an analemma and little extraneous detail beyond the antipodes of London, the bank off Newfoundland and some notes by islands such as Nimrods Group Capt. Eilbech 1827 and Karakakooa I. Capt. Cook killed 1779, Antarctica with some small stretches of coastline for SOUTH VICTORIA LAND with a note for Perpendicular Barriers of Ice, GRAHAM'S LAND Biscoe 1843, Durville 1838, Compact Ice, Adelaide Land and a small stretch of dotted coastline for Clarie Supposed Land, the continents with nation states delicately outlined in green, red, blue, orange or not at all and very finely detailed with mountains, rivers, deserts, towns and cities, Papua New Guinea with partial southern coastline, the interior of Africa with little detail but showing the lakes Victoria, Albert and Tanganyika with some tributaries, various other rivers shown by dotted lines, northern Africa with caravan routes, southern Africa showing TRIBES OF BUSHMEN, North America with only the eastern states delineated, Canada well-detailed, Greenland with no northern coastline, both poles with an engraved double hour dial, the heavy stamped brass meridian graduated in four quadrants, on an extremely fine and heavy walnut library stand, the hand-coloured engraved horizon paper graduated in degrees of amplitude and azimuth, with compass points and days of the month with an equation of time, and days of the houses of the Zodiac with a star chart for the sun's apparent path along the ecliptic and stars to varying degrees of magnitude, edged in red paint, the horizon supported on four curved and cannellated quadrant supports to a short central pillar with three heavy scroll-topped inswept legs terminating in lion's-paw feet with castors, a glazed compass box held between them on turned cross stretchers, the engraved paper signed NEWTON & C
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