A rare late 18th/early 19th-Century English orrery, Designed for the NEW PORTABLE ORRERIE by W. JONES and Made and Sold by W. & S. JONES 30 Holborn LONDON , the 1½-inch (3.8cm.) diameter earth globe made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, with overlaid cartouche for W. & S. Jones , the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, the equinoctial colure graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days, the continents with little detail, Australia shown mis-shapen and joined to Tasmania ( much varnish and paint loss, little apparent paper damage ) with ivory moonball on brass arm, on complex brass mechanism with twenty gearwheels to the brass sunball mounted on the central axis, with planet arms for the ivory Mercury and Venus, each half-painted black, four further arms below for Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, Mars in ivory, Jupiter in ivory half-painted black and with six ivory moonballs, Saturn in brass ( rings lacking ) and with four ivory moonballs, Uranus in ivory and with nine ivory moonballs, with one further counterweight arm, the whole mechanism mounted on the 12½-inch (31.7cm.) diameter mahogany horizon plate with hand-coloured engraved paper, graduated around the red-painted edge with days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac with names, sigils and pictures, compass directions and degrees of amplitude and azimuth, the inner section with A TABLE of the principal AFFECTIONS of the PLANETS Jan. y 1. s t 1794 Published as the Act directs by W. & S. Jones. detailing for each of the six planets nearest the sun for the year ANNO 1794 their distance from the sun, solar year, diurnal rotation, diameter and greatest elongation and parallax of those other than the Earth, also with tables for the revolutions and distances of the satellites of Jupiter and Saturn, also with a diagram entitled THE SOLAR SYSTEM with positions for each of the planets and dated from 1824 to 1838 ( abrasions and discolouration but no paper loss ) with ivory-handled brass turning handle, raised on three fluted tapering legs united by inswept cross-stretchers with baluster turned ivory finial at the centre -- 18in. (45.7cm.) high See Colour Illustration and Details
A rare late 18th/early 19th-Century English orrery, Designed for the NEW PORTABLE ORRERIE by W. JONES and Made and Sold by W. & S. JONES 30 Holborn LONDON , the 1½-inch (3.8cm.) diameter earth globe made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, with overlaid cartouche for W. & S. Jones , the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, the equinoctial colure graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days, the continents with little detail, Australia shown mis-shapen and joined to Tasmania ( much varnish and paint loss, little apparent paper damage ) with ivory moonball on brass arm, on complex brass mechanism with twenty gearwheels to the brass sunball mounted on the central axis, with planet arms for the ivory Mercury and Venus, each half-painted black, four further arms below for Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, Mars in ivory, Jupiter in ivory half-painted black and with six ivory moonballs, Saturn in brass ( rings lacking ) and with four ivory moonballs, Uranus in ivory and with nine ivory moonballs, with one further counterweight arm, the whole mechanism mounted on the 12½-inch (31.7cm.) diameter mahogany horizon plate with hand-coloured engraved paper, graduated around the red-painted edge with days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac with names, sigils and pictures, compass directions and degrees of amplitude and azimuth, the inner section with A TABLE of the principal AFFECTIONS of the PLANETS Jan. y 1. s t 1794 Published as the Act directs by W. & S. Jones. detailing for each of the six planets nearest the sun for the year ANNO 1794 their distance from the sun, solar year, diurnal rotation, diameter and greatest elongation and parallax of those other than the Earth, also with tables for the revolutions and distances of the satellites of Jupiter and Saturn, also with a diagram entitled THE SOLAR SYSTEM with positions for each of the planets and dated from 1824 to 1838 ( abrasions and discolouration but no paper loss ) with ivory-handled brass turning handle, raised on three fluted tapering legs united by inswept cross-stretchers with baluster turned ivory finial at the centre -- 18in. (45.7cm.) high See Colour Illustration and Details
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