BY NEWTON, CIRCA 1860

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A PAIR OF MID-VICTORIAN 15 INCH GLOBES
BY NEWTON, CIRCA 1860
NEWTON'S New and Improved TERRESTRIAL GLOBE ... London, Published Feby 1st 1861, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, with graduated equatorial, ecliptic and meridian, an analemma, explorers' tracks with dates and notes, nation states variously and delicately shaded, with towns, cities, rivers, mountains and various notes, with cartouche in the North Pacific 'NEWTON'S New & Improved TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Accurately delineated from the observations of the most esteemed Navigators and Travellers To the Present Time. MANUFACTURED BY NEWTON & SON, NO. 66, CHANCERY LANE & 3, FLEET ST. TEMPLE BAR. London Published Feb 1st 1861'; NEWTON'S NEW & IMPROVED CELESTIAL GLOBE ... London, Published 1st Mar.1860, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two celestial polar calottes, with graduated equatorial, colures and ecliptic with twilight zone, the pictorial constellations with stars to nine orders of magnitude, variously labelled with cartouche below Andromeda 'NEWTON'S NEW AND IMPROVED CELESTIAL GLOBE, On which all the Stars are taken from the elaborate and most approved Catalogue of Piazzi. the Nebulas from Bode and the double Stars and those with proper motions from the South. The Right Ascensions & Declinations of the whole having been recalculated and accurately laid down for the year 1851 BY MR. W. NEWTON. Manufactured by NEWTON & SON Chancery Lane & 3 Fleet St. Temple Bar. London Published 1st March 1860'; each with an engraved brass hour dial and stamped meridian, the paper horizon with degree (x2), Zodiac and calendar scales and wind directions, on a mahogany stand with reeded supports and baluster column and downswept legs with inscrolled feet with brass castors, three feet tipped, lacking paterae on the scrolled feet, restorations to legs
40½ in. (103 cm.) high; 21 in. (53.5 cm.) diameter (2)

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