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GLOBES & PLANETARIA
(LOTS 117-127)
AN ENGLISH 3-INCH POCKET GLOBE
NEWTON & SON, MID 19TH CENTURY
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AN ENGLISH 3-INCH POCKET GLOBE
Newton & Son, mid 19th century
NEWTON's New & Improved TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Published by Newton & Son 66 Chancery Lane & 3 Fleet St. Temple Bar, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, divided equator and ecliptic, brass hour plate, supported in a gradutated brass meridian ring; in ribbed papier-mâché case with engraved paper horizon ring, twelve half gores and a solar calotte, showing some ecliptic stars and the then-known planets (Saturn with seven satellites, Hershal[sic] with six), and four asteroids (Vesta, Ceres, Pallas, Juno).
4in. (11cm.) high
Newton & Son, mid 19th century
NEWTON's New & Improved TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Published by Newton & Son 66 Chancery Lane & 3 Fleet St. Temple Bar, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, divided equator and ecliptic, brass hour plate, supported in a gradutated brass meridian ring; in ribbed papier-mâché case with engraved paper horizon ring, twelve half gores and a solar calotte, showing some ecliptic stars and the then-known planets (Saturn with seven satellites, Hershal[sic] with six), and four asteroids (Vesta, Ceres, Pallas, Juno).
4in. (11cm.) high
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