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A fine late 18th/early 19th Century French armillary sphere,
unsigned, but in the style of the Delamarche atelier, constructed of pasteboard covered with engraved and hand-coloured paper, all the edges painted red, the 1-inch (2.5cm.) diameter terrestrial globe at the centre made up of six hand-coloured engraved gores, with ungraduated ecliptic and equatorial, the continents outlined in green with some place names shown, held on an iron spike with two card discs for the Sun and the Moon held on wire arms to move around it, with labelled and graduated polar, tropic and a equatorial circles, and graduated circles for the equinoctial and solstitial colures, the ecliptic band graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac with names and sigils and papered on both sides, held within the meridian circle with a scale for the climates of hours and months, raised on an elegant baluster turned pear wood column and plinth base (the whole sphere mounted on the column upside down) -- 12¼in. (31cm.) high
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unsigned, but in the style of the Delamarche atelier, constructed of pasteboard covered with engraved and hand-coloured paper, all the edges painted red, the 1-inch (2.5cm.) diameter terrestrial globe at the centre made up of six hand-coloured engraved gores, with ungraduated ecliptic and equatorial, the continents outlined in green with some place names shown, held on an iron spike with two card discs for the Sun and the Moon held on wire arms to move around it, with labelled and graduated polar, tropic and a equatorial circles, and graduated circles for the equinoctial and solstitial colures, the ecliptic band graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac with names and sigils and papered on both sides, held within the meridian circle with a scale for the climates of hours and months, raised on an elegant baluster turned pear wood column and plinth base (the whole sphere mounted on the column upside down) -- 12¼in. (31cm.) high
See Colour Illustration