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NEWTON & SON, London
NEWTON'S New & Improved TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Published by Newton & Son 66 Chancery Lane. & 3 Fleet St, Temple Bar.
A 3½-inch (8.9cm.) diameter terrestrial pocket globe, made up of twelve hand coloured engraved gores, the equatorial and ecliptic lines graduated in degrees, the ecliptic also showing the symbols of the houses of the zodiac, the continents coloured in outline, the oceans showing the tracks of Captain Cook and Clark and Gore (plaster cracked across South America), with lacquered brass hour ring and meridian circle divided into four quadrants, in original fishskin-covered case with hand coloured engraved horizon ring, with hand coloured engraved celestial diagram depicting the sun, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Hershal and some stars, and the months, houses of the zodiac and four equinoxes, to the upper part of the case, brass hooks and eyes (lacking one eye, some restoration to case)
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NEWTON'S New & Improved TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Published by Newton & Son 66 Chancery Lane. & 3 Fleet St, Temple Bar.
A 3½-inch (8.9cm.) diameter terrestrial pocket globe, made up of twelve hand coloured engraved gores, the equatorial and ecliptic lines graduated in degrees, the ecliptic also showing the symbols of the houses of the zodiac, the continents coloured in outline, the oceans showing the tracks of Captain Cook and Clark and Gore (plaster cracked across South America), with lacquered brass hour ring and meridian circle divided into four quadrants, in original fishskin-covered case with hand coloured engraved horizon ring, with hand coloured engraved celestial diagram depicting the sun, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Hershal and some stars, and the months, houses of the zodiac and four equinoxes, to the upper part of the case, brass hooks and eyes (lacking one eye, some restoration to case)
See Colour Illustration and Detail