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A rare pair of mid 19th-Century American 6-inch diameter table globes,
by Gilman Joslin, Boston, the terrestrial JOSLIN'S Six Inch Terrestrial Globe Containing the latest Discoveries. BOSTON Gilman Joslin. 1846 Drawn and Engraved by W.B. Annin, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, the northern calotte printed with an hour dial, the equatorial graduated in degrees, hours and minutes, the Greenwich meridian ungraduated, the meridian at 180° graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in twelve times 1-30° with sigils for the houses of the Zodiac, an analemma in the Pacific Ocean, Antarctica with two small stretches of coastline for Enderby's Land and Land discov.d by Capt. Wilkes of the U.S. Navy , also with a note Capt. Weddell reached this point in 1823, the continents with nation states variously shaded and/or outlined in red, yellow and green showing towns and cities, rivers, mountains and deserts, China showing the Great Wall, Tasmania labelled VAN DIEMEN'S LAND, the islands of New Zealand labelled in Maori Eahei Nomauwe and Tavai Poenamoo, Central Africa labelled UNEXPLORED, South Africa showing Extensive Deserts and Hottentots, Greenland with no northen coastline, Alaska labelled RUSSIAN AMERICA, Northern America with the territories of various native Indian nations marked (some minor discolouration and neat restoration with slight fading to detail; southern polar calotte is a photocopy);
the celestial JOSLIN'S Six Inch Celestial Globe From the best Authorities GILMAN JOSLIN Boston 1840, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes laid to the celestial poles, the equatorial graduated in degrees, hours and minutes, one half of the equinoctial colure graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in twelve times 1-30° with sigils for the houses of the Zodiac and twilight zone, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific isntruments, the stars shown to five orders of magnitude with nebulae, many labelled with Greek characters or Arabic numerals (much fading with loss of detail in parts);
both spheres mounted in a stamped brass meridian circle graduated in four quadrants, in a mahogany table stand with colour-copied horizon paper, showing degrees, compass directions, days of the month and days of the houses of the Zodiac, the horizon raised on three baluster turned legs united by cross-stretchers to the meridian support -- 25.1cm. (9 7/8in.) high
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by Gilman Joslin, Boston, the terrestrial JOSLIN'S Six Inch Terrestrial Globe Containing the latest Discoveries. BOSTON Gilman Joslin. 1846 Drawn and Engraved by W.B. Annin, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, the northern calotte printed with an hour dial, the equatorial graduated in degrees, hours and minutes, the Greenwich meridian ungraduated, the meridian at 180° graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in twelve times 1-30° with sigils for the houses of the Zodiac, an analemma in the Pacific Ocean, Antarctica with two small stretches of coastline for Enderby's Land and Land discov.
the celestial JOSLIN'S Six Inch Celestial Globe From the best Authorities GILMAN JOSLIN Boston 1840, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes laid to the celestial poles, the equatorial graduated in degrees, hours and minutes, one half of the equinoctial colure graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in twelve times 1-30° with sigils for the houses of the Zodiac and twilight zone, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific isntruments, the stars shown to five orders of magnitude with nebulae, many labelled with Greek characters or Arabic numerals (much fading with loss of detail in parts);
both spheres mounted in a stamped brass meridian circle graduated in four quadrants, in a mahogany table stand with colour-copied horizon paper, showing degrees, compass directions, days of the month and days of the houses of the Zodiac, the horizon raised on three baluster turned legs united by cross-stretchers to the meridian support -- 25.1cm. (9 7/8in.) high
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