$1,880
6-inch American Terrestrial Globe by Merriam, Moore & Co. , with cartouche Comprising the Latest Political Divisions, Discoveries & C. Merriam, Moore & Co., Troy, N.Y. , made up of twelve hand-colored gores and two polar calottes, with Equinoctial Line divided by degrees and showing the Longitude West from Washington and Greenwich, the Ecliptic by days of the Gregorian calender and Zodiacal sigils, Analemma, polar hour rings, the tracks of various explorers, including the voyages of Cook, the Return of the Resolution, and the polar tracks of Wilkes and Weddell, America shaded by state and outlined in pink, yellow, blue and green, California and Old California, Canada as British America, the cities labeled to four degrees of magnitude in symbols, in calibrated brass full-meridian ring and paper horizon ring marking Gregorian and Zodiacal calendars in days and sigils, edged in red, on cast-iron scrollwork base, ht. 9 1/2 in., (light varnish abrasions, overall good).
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2007-03-24
