A French tellurian,
J. FOREST En Vente chez l'Auteur 17 rue de Buci Paris; late 19th Century
the 3-inch terrestrial globe made up of two sets of twelve chromolithographed half-gores, with moonball, mounted on lacquered-brass geared arm to candle-holder and silvered projector, atop a mahogany plinth base with polychrome enamelled circular scale graduated in English with compass points, houses of the Zodiac and their sigils, days and months of the year, with a brass compass basin and mechanical handle
49cm. (19¼in.) width
A French tellurian,
J. FOREST En Vente chez l'Auteur 17 rue de Buci Paris; late 19th Century
the 3-inch terrestrial globe made up of two sets of twelve chromolithographed half-gores, with moonball, mounted on lacquered-brass geared arm to candle-holder and silvered projector, atop a mahogany plinth base with polychrome enamelled circular scale graduated in English with compass points, houses of the Zodiac and their sigils, days and months of the year, with a brass compass basin and mechanical handle
49cm. (19¼in.) width
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