12-inch Celestial Table Globe by Thomas Harris & Son, retailed by J. Lynch & Son, Dublin, the twelve engraved and hand-colored gores laid on a wooden sphere with cartouche reading A New Celestial Globe, on which is laid down all the Stars & Nebulae contained in the catalogues of the most celebrated Astronomers, the whole adapted to the year 1820, by Thomas Harris & Son, Optcians and Globe Makers to His Majesty and the overpaste, Sold by J. Lynch & Son, Dublin, the constellations labeled and represented as stylized mythological figures, beasts and instruments of science, brass meridian ring and hour circle, engraved and printed horizon band on wood with calendar and signs of the zodiac all on a four-legged stand with "X"-form cross stretcher, ht. approximately 18, wd. 17 1/4 in.
12-inch Celestial Table Globe by Thomas Harris & Son, retailed by J. Lynch & Son, Dublin, the twelve engraved and hand-colored gores laid on a wooden sphere with cartouche reading A New Celestial Globe, on which is laid down all the Stars & Nebulae contained in the catalogues of the most celebrated Astronomers, the whole adapted to the year 1820, by Thomas Harris & Son, Optcians and Globe Makers to His Majesty and the overpaste, Sold by J. Lynch & Son, Dublin, the constellations labeled and represented as stylized mythological figures, beasts and instruments of science, brass meridian ring and hour circle, engraved and printed horizon band on wood with calendar and signs of the zodiac all on a four-legged stand with "X"-form cross stretcher, ht. approximately 18, wd. 17 1/4 in.
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