$4,994
Wilson's New American 13-inch Globe, made up of twelve hand-colored gores with printed hour rings, with American territories shaded pink, yellow and pale-green, showing expeditions by explorers including Cook and Columbus, the ecliptic divided by months and houses of the Zodiac, the equatorial by hours and degrees, with cartouche Wilson's New Thirteen Inch Terrestrial Globe. Exhibiting with the greatest possible accuracy the positions of the principal known place of the Earth: with the tracks of various circumnavigators together with new discoveries and political alterations down to the present period: 1835. By Cyrus Lancaster, Albany, N.Y. and illustration of female figure examining a globe with dividers watched by an American eagle, in engraved brass meridian ring and horizon ring showing calender months and the Zodiacal calendar, on mahogany stand with four baluster-turned legs joined by stretchers, ht. 18 in. , (horizon ring worn in places, some abrasions). Literature: Elly Dekker and Peter van der Krogt (1993), Globes of the Western World , p. 132. In 1835 Cyrus Lancaster, who had worked for James Wilson & Sons in Albany since 1826, published new editions of Wilson's 13-inch terrestrial and celestial globes under his own name, continuing Wilson's tradition of emphasizing American themes and aspects of geography.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2005-05-03
