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A rare 19th-Century American telluric indicator
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A rare 19th-Century American telluric indicator
with JOSLIN'S Six Inch Terrestrial Globe, Containing the latest Discoveries. BOSTON Gilman Joslin Drawn and Engraved by W. B. Annin made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, with graduated equatorial, ecliptic and equinoctial colure, the oceans with an analemma and the southern and northern limits for wood, grain, the vine and bananas, the Antarctic with little coastline shown but notes concerning Captains Weddell and Wilkes, the continents with nation states outlined in red and shaded green, pink, yellow and blue and showing towns, cities, rivers and mountains in pictorial relief (old damages and repairs with some detail loss) mounted in a stamped brass meridian on a shaped ebonised base with index, gilt outline and floral decoration and a central brass Sunball on a rod, over three gear wheels turning around the circular cast bronze base with foliate-decorated pierced central section and a hand-coloured engraved paper calendar scale around the circumference showing the path of the ecliptic, days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, the edge painted in green and gilt
9 3/8in. (23.8cm.) diameter
with JOSLIN'S Six Inch Terrestrial Globe, Containing the latest Discoveries. BOSTON Gilman Joslin Drawn and Engraved by W. B. Annin made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, with graduated equatorial, ecliptic and equinoctial colure, the oceans with an analemma and the southern and northern limits for wood, grain, the vine and bananas, the Antarctic with little coastline shown but notes concerning Captains Weddell and Wilkes, the continents with nation states outlined in red and shaded green, pink, yellow and blue and showing towns, cities, rivers and mountains in pictorial relief (old damages and repairs with some detail loss) mounted in a stamped brass meridian on a shaped ebonised base with index, gilt outline and floral decoration and a central brass Sunball on a rod, over three gear wheels turning around the circular cast bronze base with foliate-decorated pierced central section and a hand-coloured engraved paper calendar scale around the circumference showing the path of the ecliptic, days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, the edge painted in green and gilt
9 3/8in. (23.8cm.) diameter