Lot 413
A Fine Pair of English 20-Inch Library Globes, 1850, Newton & Son, London, each made up of two sets of twelve hand-colored finely engraved gores and two polar calottes, engraved brass hour dials at each pole, brass meridian circle with graduated degrees, the papered horizon rings with degrees of amplitude and azimuth, compass directions, star chart, path of the sun and days of the houses of the Zodiac, the terrestrial globe cartouche Newton's/New and Improved/Terrestrial Globe/Accurately delineated/from the observations of the most esteemed/Navigators and Travellers/to the Present Time. /Manufactured by Newton & Son, 66 Chancery Lane/London/Published 1st January 1850, the terrestrial globe showing vast detail including discoveries, the celestial globe showing stars and constellations depicted by mythical beasts, figures and scientific instruments, its cartouche Newton's/New and Improved/Celestial Globe/On which all the Stars, Nebulae and Clusters contained in/the extensive Catalogue of the late/F. Wollaston, F.R.S./are accurately laid down, their Right Ascensions & Declinations/having been recalculated for the year 1830 /by W. Newton/Manufactured by Newton & Son, 66 Chancery Lane, London/Published Feb 2, 1850-Engraved by T. Starling/Washington Square the globes raised on Regency-style mahogany stands, each signed Newton and Son, 1849, with carved pillar, inswept feet incorporating brass casters, height 45 in., diameter 26 1/2 in.
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