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A 19th-Century English 12-inch diameter terrestrial table globe,
CRUCHLEY'S NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE From the most recent Authorities EXHIBITING THE DISCOVERIES IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA, NORTH OPLE And the new Settlements & Discoveries of AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, CALIFORNIA, TEXAS 7c. LONDON G.F. CRUCHLEY MAP SELLER, GLOBE MAKER & PUBLISHER 81 FLEET STREET (c.1850), made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, 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, the oceans with trade winds and an analemma, Antarctica with some portions of coastline shown and various notes, the continents with some nation states outlined in green and red, shaded green or yellow, and well-detailed (extensive discolouration, cracking, abrasions and heat damage) in a stamped brass meridian half-circle graduated in two quadrants, to a turned fruitwood column and concave triform base with three bun feet --48cm. (18 7/8in.) high
CRUCHLEY'S NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE From the most recent Authorities EXHIBITING THE DISCOVERIES IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA, NORTH OPLE And the new Settlements & Discoveries of AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, CALIFORNIA, TEXAS 7c. LONDON G.F. CRUCHLEY MAP SELLER, GLOBE MAKER & PUBLISHER 81 FLEET STREET (c.1850), made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, 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, the oceans with trade winds and an analemma, Antarctica with some portions of coastline shown and various notes, the continents with some nation states outlined in green and red, shaded green or yellow, and well-detailed (extensive discolouration, cracking, abrasions and heat damage) in a stamped brass meridian half-circle graduated in two quadrants, to a turned fruitwood column and concave triform base with three bun feet --48cm. (18 7/8in.) high
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