A RARE PAIR OF SWEDISH GLOBES Andreæ Akerman (c.1723-1766) Each 12-inch globe comprised of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, each supported in graduated brass meridian rings with hour rings and pointers, sitting in later stands with facsimile horizon rings; the terrestrial applied cartouche ATLANTI Acadmiae Ups Scientiarumq, [...] Dom. CAROLO EHRENPREUS. Hanc GLOBI TERRAUELE [...] A. Akerman Reg. Soc. Lit. et Scient. Sculptores 1759. and the celestial cartouche ATLANTI Acad. Ups. Scientiarumq [...] Dom. C. EHRENPREUS Hunc GLOBUM COELESTEM Ex Flamsteedii Catalogo [...] A. Akerman Reg. Soc. Scient. Sculptore 1759. Each with green cloth dustcovers. Each 18 ½ x 19 x 19in. (47 x 48 x 48cm.)
A RARE PAIR OF SWEDISH GLOBES Andreæ Akerman (c.1723-1766) Each 12-inch globe comprised of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, each supported in graduated brass meridian rings with hour rings and pointers, sitting in later stands with facsimile horizon rings; the terrestrial applied cartouche ATLANTI Acadmiae Ups Scientiarumq, [...] Dom. CAROLO EHRENPREUS. Hanc GLOBI TERRAUELE [...] A. Akerman Reg. Soc. Lit. et Scient. Sculptores 1759. and the celestial cartouche ATLANTI Acad. Ups. Scientiarumq [...] Dom. C. EHRENPREUS Hunc GLOBUM COELESTEM Ex Flamsteedii Catalogo [...] A. Akerman Reg. Soc. Scient. Sculptore 1759. Each with green cloth dustcovers. Each 18 ½ x 19 x 19in. (47 x 48 x 48cm.)
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