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GILLMAN JOSLIN, CIRCA 1870
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A late 19th-century American 16-inch diameter terrestrial library globe
Gillman Joslin, circa 1870
signed on the horizon IMPROVED GLOBE BOSTON MANUFACTURED BY GILMAN JOSLIN CORRECTED TO 1870 after Charles Copley, made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured lithographed split half-gores, with graduated equatorial, ecliptic, equinoctial colure and Greenwich meridian, the oceans with an analemma, North Atlantic submarine telegraph cable and isothermal lines, the Antrarctic with some small stretches of coastline, the continents with nation states delicately shaded green, pink and yellow and well-detailed with towns, cities, rivers, mountains in pictorial relief, deserts and oases (old repairs to equator and Indonesia with some detail loss) with stamped brass hour dial and meridian, the hand-coloured (reproduction) horizon paper showing degrees of amplitude and azimuth, compass directions, days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, and minutes for the equation of time, with a note reading 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, applied to a mahogany circle raised on three shaped bronze quadrant supportas to the central inverse tulip-shaped bronze column with acanthus leaf decoration and three hipped and inswept feet terminating in castors
42½ in. (108 cm.) high
Gillman Joslin, circa 1870
signed on the horizon IMPROVED GLOBE BOSTON MANUFACTURED BY GILMAN JOSLIN CORRECTED TO 1870 after Charles Copley, made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured lithographed split half-gores, with graduated equatorial, ecliptic, equinoctial colure and Greenwich meridian, the oceans with an analemma, North Atlantic submarine telegraph cable and isothermal lines, the Antrarctic with some small stretches of coastline, the continents with nation states delicately shaded green, pink and yellow and well-detailed with towns, cities, rivers, mountains in pictorial relief, deserts and oases (old repairs to equator and Indonesia with some detail loss) with stamped brass hour dial and meridian, the hand-coloured (reproduction) horizon paper showing degrees of amplitude and azimuth, compass directions, days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, and minutes for the equation of time, with a note reading 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, applied to a mahogany circle raised on three shaped bronze quadrant supportas to the central inverse tulip-shaped bronze column with acanthus leaf decoration and three hipped and inswept feet terminating in castors
42½ in. (108 cm.) high