Fine Pair of Antique English 12-Inch Newton's Floor Globes

Fine Pair of Antique English 12-Inch Newton's Floor Globes the terrestrial cartouche reading "NEWTON'S NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE compiled from the most authentic BRITISH AND FOREIGN SURVEYS EMBRACING all the recent discoveries/MANUFACTURED BY NEWTON & SON/66 Chancery Lane, LONDON/1843"; the celestial globe "NEWTON'S NEW & IMPROVED CELESTIAL GLOBE, On which all the Stars are taken from the elaborate and most approved Catalogue of Piazzi the Nebulas from Bode and the double Stars and those with proper motions from South. The Right Ascensions & Declinations of the whole having been recalculated and accurately laid down for the year 1840. BY MR. W. NEWTON/Manufactured by Newton Son & Berry Chancery Lane", made from twelve hand-colored engraved gores, the stars shown to seven orders of magnitude, each sphere pivoted via the polar axis within brass meridian circle divided for degrees, set within hand-colored engraved paper horizon ring with compass points and degrees in both directions, Zodiac and calendar scales, equinoxes, and wind directions, raised on carved mahogany stands, with compass stretchers, h. 37 in., dia. 16 1/2 in.

Estimate:£5,965.64

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