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GILMORE JOSLIN, BOSTON, 1840/1860
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A fine pair of mid 19th-Century 6-inch diameter American table globes
Gilmore Joslin, Boston, 1840/1860
the terrestrial JOSLIN'S Six Inch Terrestrial Globe Containing the latest Discoveries BOSTON Gilman Joslin 1860 Drawn and Engraved by W.B. Annin made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved paper gores and two polar calottes, with north polar hour dial, graduated equatorial and ecliptic and ungraduated meridian, the oceans with an analemma, the continents with shoreline heavily outlined in green, some nation states delicately shaded in green and yellow and pink, showing towns, cities, rivers, mountains and the Great Wall of China;
the celestial JOSLIN'S Six Inch Celestial Globe From the best Authorities GILMAN JOSLIN Boston 1840 made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved paper gores and two polar calottes laid to the celestial poles, with graduated equatorial, equinoctial colure and ecliptic with twilight zone, the constellations depicted by finely engraved and variously coloured mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments, with stars to five orders of magnitude, some labelled with Greek characters;
both spheres with unengraved brass meridian circle, hand-coloured engraved paper horizon with degree calendar and Zodiac scales, raised on three baluster turned legs united by cross stretchers
10¼ in. (26 cm.) high (2)
Gilmore Joslin, Boston, 1840/1860
the terrestrial JOSLIN'S Six Inch Terrestrial Globe Containing the latest Discoveries BOSTON Gilman Joslin 1860 Drawn and Engraved by W.B. Annin made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved paper gores and two polar calottes, with north polar hour dial, graduated equatorial and ecliptic and ungraduated meridian, the oceans with an analemma, the continents with shoreline heavily outlined in green, some nation states delicately shaded in green and yellow and pink, showing towns, cities, rivers, mountains and the Great Wall of China;
the celestial JOSLIN'S Six Inch Celestial Globe From the best Authorities GILMAN JOSLIN Boston 1840 made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved paper gores and two polar calottes laid to the celestial poles, with graduated equatorial, equinoctial colure and ecliptic with twilight zone, the constellations depicted by finely engraved and variously coloured mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments, with stars to five orders of magnitude, some labelled with Greek characters;
both spheres with unengraved brass meridian circle, hand-coloured engraved paper horizon with degree calendar and Zodiac scales, raised on three baluster turned legs united by cross stretchers
10¼ in. (26 cm.) high (2)