Sold for:
$3,690
$3,690
James Wilson 13-inch Celestial Globe, c. 1837, twelve engraved and hand-colored gores and calottes, with cartouche reading in part Wilson's New Thirteen Inch Celestial Globe Containing the positions of nearly 7000 Stars, Clusters, Nebulae, By C. Lancaster 1837 Albany St. N.Y. , the constellations labeled and represented as stylized mythological figures, beasts, and instruments of science, brass hour pointer, and brass meridian ring, engraved and printed horizon band on wood with Zodiacal and Gregorian calendars, all resting on a red-stained "X"-form stretcher with turned legs, ht. 17 in. Provenance: Collection of Vera Rubin.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2015-04-25
