A late 18th-Century 10-inch diameter celestial table globe, THE CELESTIAL GLOBE Accompanying the GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. Published as the Act directs, by Harrison & C O.N O.18 Paternoster Row, Apr.1, 1785. made by W. BARDIN, Fleet Street, LONDON made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores laid to the ecliptic poles, the axis through the celestial poles, with graduated equinoctial, colures and ecliptic with twilight zone and northern polar hour dial, the pictorial constellations with stars to six orders of magnitude, some labelled with Greek characters, with an engraved brass meridian ring and hand-coloured engraved horizon showing degrees in four quadrants, wind directions, Zodiac and calendar scales, on a mahogany stand with four turned legs united by cross stretchers ( repaired ) -- 34.3cm. (13½in.) high
A late 18th-Century 10-inch diameter celestial table globe, THE CELESTIAL GLOBE Accompanying the GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. Published as the Act directs, by Harrison & C O.N O.18 Paternoster Row, Apr.1, 1785. made by W. BARDIN, Fleet Street, LONDON made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores laid to the ecliptic poles, the axis through the celestial poles, with graduated equinoctial, colures and ecliptic with twilight zone and northern polar hour dial, the pictorial constellations with stars to six orders of magnitude, some labelled with Greek characters, with an engraved brass meridian ring and hand-coloured engraved horizon showing degrees in four quadrants, wind directions, Zodiac and calendar scales, on a mahogany stand with four turned legs united by cross stretchers ( repaired ) -- 34.3cm. (13½in.) high
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