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MERRIAM & MOORE 1852
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AN AMERICAN 6-INCH CELESTIAL GLOBE
MERRIAM & MOORE 1852
comprised of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, held in graduated brass meridian, supported on cart iron tripod stand with engraved calendrical sales on wooden horizon, the cartouche to southern hemisphere A New Six Inch CELESTIAL Globe Reduced from the latest authorities of the Astronomical ASSOCIATION LONDON BY MERRIAM & MOORE STATIONERS TROY NY 1852.
9in. (23cm.) high
MERRIAM & MOORE 1852
comprised of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, held in graduated brass meridian, supported on cart iron tripod stand with engraved calendrical sales on wooden horizon, the cartouche to southern hemisphere A New Six Inch CELESTIAL Globe Reduced from the latest authorities of the Astronomical ASSOCIATION LONDON BY MERRIAM & MOORE STATIONERS TROY NY 1852.
9in. (23cm.) high
Provenance
from the collection of the astronomer Vera Rubin
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