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NEWTON, London
NEWTON'S, new and improved terrestrial pocket globe, New Chancery Lane, London and NEWTON'S improved pocket celestial GLOBE
A rare pair of 3-inch (7.7cm.) diameter pocket globes, each with twelve hand coloured engraved paper gores, the terrestrial with continents coloured in outline, the oceans not showing any tracks of circumnavigators, the lower Great South Sea inscribed: The improved annalema is intended to supersede the necessity of the Ecliptic Line hitherto unneccessarily drawn upon the Terrestrial Globe. Pub. Dec. 1.1816; the celestial showing stars and planets by magnitude, the constellations suitably labelled; both globes with engraved lacquered-brass hour rings and meridian circles divided in four quadrants, contained in the original fishskin-covered cases with horizon rings, the interior of one case printed with a heavenly diagram incorporating the sun's rising and setting, the other with a planetary chart showing Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, the Earth and Hershel, the latter case with trade label for I. BLEULER, No. 27 Ludgate Street, LONDON (both globes with some minor abrasions, both cases with some old damages, and brass hooks and eyes)
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NEWTON'S, new and improved terrestrial pocket globe, New Chancery Lane, London and NEWTON'S improved pocket celestial GLOBE
A rare pair of 3-inch (7.7cm.) diameter pocket globes, each with twelve hand coloured engraved paper gores, the terrestrial with continents coloured in outline, the oceans not showing any tracks of circumnavigators, the lower Great South Sea inscribed: The improved annalema is intended to supersede the necessity of the Ecliptic Line hitherto unneccessarily drawn upon the Terrestrial Globe. Pub. Dec. 1.1816; the celestial showing stars and planets by magnitude, the constellations suitably labelled; both globes with engraved lacquered-brass hour rings and meridian circles divided in four quadrants, contained in the original fishskin-covered cases with horizon rings, the interior of one case printed with a heavenly diagram incorporating the sun's rising and setting, the other with a planetary chart showing Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, the Earth and Hershel, the latter case with trade label for I. BLEULER, No. 27 Ludgate Street, LONDON (both globes with some minor abrasions, both cases with some old damages, and brass hooks and eyes)
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