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BY WILLIAM BARDIN AND GABRIEL WRIGHT, AFTER JAMES FERGUSON, 1782
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A pair of English 12-inch diameter table globes
By William Bardin and Gabriel Wright, after James Ferguson, 1782
The terrestrial: FERGUSON'S TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Improved by G. Wright, Wherein the new Discoveries of the late Capt:Cook & other eminent Navigators are correctly laid down to the Present Time, a note beneath the cartouche reading Made & Sold by W. Bardin, No 16, Salisbury-Square Fleet Street, and a further note around the southern polar dial Published according to the Act of Parliament by W. Bardin, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, the equatorial graduated in degrees of amplitude and azimuth, the ecliptic graduated in degrees 1-30 (x12) with sigils, the Greenwich meridian ungraduated, the oceans with an analemma, two wind roses, arrows for trade winds, and the tracks of Cook and Furneaux with innumerable notes, Antarctica with no land shown but notes such as Many Islands & Fields of Ice and a tentative Gerard's Land, the continents with some nation states hand-outlined in colour and detailed with rivers, mountains in pictorial relief, cities and towns, Africa finely detailed with notes as to various tribes such as Jagas Anthorpophogai and HOTTENTOTS, China showing the Great Wall, North America with no northern coastline and much of the north-west without detail, with various notes such as North West Continent of America discovered by Capt. Cook, in 1780 in Alaska, and Middleton's Discoveries 1742 in Canada, Greenland with a note Here the Hills are said to be covered with Snow & the Weather temperate (extensive damage and restoration with old visible cracks and abrasions and areas of detail loss);
the celestial: WRIGHT'S New & Improv'd CELESTIAL GLOBE On which the Stars are correctly laid down from the Observations of D. Halley, D. Bradley, &c. Made & Sold by W. Bardin, No 16, Salisbury Sqr Fleet Street, London, with a note around the southern ecliptic pole Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by G. Wright & W. Bardin Jan.1.t.1782., made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores laid to the ecliptic poles, the axis through the celestial poles, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, the ecliptic graduated in degrees 1-30 (x12) with sigils for the houses of the Zodiac and twilight zone, the colures graduated in degrees, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures, the stars shown to seven orders of magnitude and labelled with Greek characters (extensive abrasion and discolouration, mainly to the northern hemisphere)
both spheres with an engraved brass hour dial with hours I-XII (x2) and sixteen initialled compass points and pointer, and with a stamped brass meridian circle, the papered horizon showing degrees, compass directions, days of the houses of the Zodiac and days of the month (both somewhat distressed, both probably later copies) edged in red and raised on four baluster-turned mahogany legs united by cross stretchers
45cm. high (2)
By William Bardin and Gabriel Wright, after James Ferguson, 1782
The terrestrial: FERGUSON'S TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Improved by G. Wright, Wherein the new Discoveries of the late Capt:Cook & other eminent Navigators are correctly laid down to the Present Time, a note beneath the cartouche reading Made & Sold by W. Bardin, No 16, Salisbury-Square Fleet Street, and a further note around the southern polar dial Published according to the Act of Parliament by W. Bardin, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, the equatorial graduated in degrees of amplitude and azimuth, the ecliptic graduated in degrees 1-30 (x12) with sigils, the Greenwich meridian ungraduated, the oceans with an analemma, two wind roses, arrows for trade winds, and the tracks of Cook and Furneaux with innumerable notes, Antarctica with no land shown but notes such as Many Islands & Fields of Ice and a tentative Gerard's Land, the continents with some nation states hand-outlined in colour and detailed with rivers, mountains in pictorial relief, cities and towns, Africa finely detailed with notes as to various tribes such as Jagas Anthorpophogai and HOTTENTOTS, China showing the Great Wall, North America with no northern coastline and much of the north-west without detail, with various notes such as North West Continent of America discovered by Capt. Cook, in 1780 in Alaska, and Middleton's Discoveries 1742 in Canada, Greenland with a note Here the Hills are said to be covered with Snow & the Weather temperate (extensive damage and restoration with old visible cracks and abrasions and areas of detail loss);
the celestial: WRIGHT'S New & Improv'd CELESTIAL GLOBE On which the Stars are correctly laid down from the Observations of D. Halley, D. Bradley, &c. Made & Sold by W. Bardin, No 16, Salisbury Sqr Fleet Street, London, with a note around the southern ecliptic pole Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by G. Wright & W. Bardin Jan.1.t.1782., made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores laid to the ecliptic poles, the axis through the celestial poles, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, the ecliptic graduated in degrees 1-30 (x12) with sigils for the houses of the Zodiac and twilight zone, the colures graduated in degrees, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures, the stars shown to seven orders of magnitude and labelled with Greek characters (extensive abrasion and discolouration, mainly to the northern hemisphere)
both spheres with an engraved brass hour dial with hours I-XII (x2) and sixteen initialled compass points and pointer, and with a stamped brass meridian circle, the papered horizon showing degrees, compass directions, days of the houses of the Zodiac and days of the month (both somewhat distressed, both probably later copies) edged in red and raised on four baluster-turned mahogany legs united by cross stretchers
45cm. high (2)
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