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COPLEY, CHARLES & NIMS & CO., H.B., NEW YORK, C.1852
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A fine late 19th-Century American 16-inch diameter celestial library globe
COPLEY, CHARLES & NIMS & Co., H.B., New York, c.1852
made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved half gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees, hours and minutes, with one minute subdivisions labelled every fifteen minutes, the Greenwich meridian and equinoctial colure graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, the oceans with an analemma and lines of magnetic variation, the northern Atlantic showing the first submarine telegraph cable (1866) with varying depths marked, notes either side of the small island of Minicoy to the west of the southern tip of India reading 9 Degrees Channel and 8 Degrees Channel, the Antarctic showing Victoria Land Discovered by Capt Ross 1841, a small stretch of coastline for Enderby Land and a longer stretch entitled comprising Sabrina Land, Clarie Land, Adelie Land and Balleny Island, a note by the latter Freeman's Peak 1200ft, the continents with nation states delicately shaded in blue, pink, yellow or green and showing an enormous wealth of detail including rivers, mountains, deserts, towns, cities, North America with the territories of various native tribes including the Boonacks, Pawnees, Chicksaws and many others, Alaska labelled as such, Greenland with no northern coastline, Africa with little detail in the interior but dotted lines for various rivers and lakes including Lake Tanganyika and the Congo, also with note such as Tribes of Touariks, Tribes of Tibbous and the Mountains of the Moon shown as Jebel al Kamar or al Kumri, Tasmania labelled VAN DIEMAN LAND, the islands of New Zealand labelled NEW ULSTER, NW.MUNSTER and New Lienster, China showing the Great Wall, Japan labelled NIPHON, with a stamped steel hour dial and meridian ring graduated in four quadrants, the mahogany horizon with hand-coloured engraved paper ring graduated in degrees of amplitude and azimuth with thirty-two compass points, days of the week and of the houses of the Zodiac, bearing the separate notes IMPROVED GLOBE, BOSTON, MANUFACTURED BY H.B. NIMS & Co. TROY, N.Y. and Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1852 by Charles Copley, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York, also with a note on the equation of time shown on the calendar scale, a table for the magnitudes of stars and a note regarding the boundaries of constellations. The horizon supported by three brass arms with cherub heads and mounted on baluster turned brass column with bronze patina and base decorated with florets and the heads of mythical cats.
46 in. (116.8 cm.) height
COPLEY, CHARLES & NIMS & Co., H.B., New York, c.1852
made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved half gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees, hours and minutes, with one minute subdivisions labelled every fifteen minutes, the Greenwich meridian and equinoctial colure graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, the oceans with an analemma and lines of magnetic variation, the northern Atlantic showing the first submarine telegraph cable (1866) with varying depths marked, notes either side of the small island of Minicoy to the west of the southern tip of India reading 9 Degrees Channel and 8 Degrees Channel, the Antarctic showing Victoria Land Discovered by Capt Ross 1841, a small stretch of coastline for Enderby Land and a longer stretch entitled comprising Sabrina Land, Clarie Land, Adelie Land and Balleny Island, a note by the latter Freeman's Peak 1200ft, the continents with nation states delicately shaded in blue, pink, yellow or green and showing an enormous wealth of detail including rivers, mountains, deserts, towns, cities, North America with the territories of various native tribes including the Boonacks, Pawnees, Chicksaws and many others, Alaska labelled as such, Greenland with no northern coastline, Africa with little detail in the interior but dotted lines for various rivers and lakes including Lake Tanganyika and the Congo, also with note such as Tribes of Touariks, Tribes of Tibbous and the Mountains of the Moon shown as Jebel al Kamar or al Kumri, Tasmania labelled VAN DIEMAN LAND, the islands of New Zealand labelled NEW ULSTER, NW.MUNSTER and New Lienster, China showing the Great Wall, Japan labelled NIPHON, with a stamped steel hour dial and meridian ring graduated in four quadrants, the mahogany horizon with hand-coloured engraved paper ring graduated in degrees of amplitude and azimuth with thirty-two compass points, days of the week and of the houses of the Zodiac, bearing the separate notes IMPROVED GLOBE, BOSTON, MANUFACTURED BY H.B. NIMS & Co. TROY, N.Y. and Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1852 by Charles Copley, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York, also with a note on the equation of time shown on the calendar scale, a table for the magnitudes of stars and a note regarding the boundaries of constellations. The horizon supported by three brass arms with cherub heads and mounted on baluster turned brass column with bronze patina and base decorated with florets and the heads of mythical cats.
46 in. (116.8 cm.) height
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The title of the lot should read, A fine late 19th-century American 16-inch diameter terrestrial library globe