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RARE EGYPTIAN REVIVAL TRIPOD FLOOR STAND. WITH "NATIONAL PARK"
Joslin, Gilman.
Joslin's Terrestrial Globe containing all the late discoveries
and geographical improvements, also the tracks of the most
celebrated circumnavigators. Compiled from Smith's new English
Globe, with additions and improvements by Annin & Smith. Revised
by G.W. Boynton. Manufactured by Gilman Joslin. Boston. c1873.
(after 1872, before 1889). Handsome 12 inch floor globe with
engraved and hand colored gores over an orb of hollow metal
dressed in plaster. Time scales at North and South Poles are part
of the gore surface design, large analemma scale in Pacific.
Oceans finished a subdued tan, some exploration voyage track
dated. Engraved brass full ring meridian set within a cast iron
conforming cradle supporting wooden horizon ring with paper scale.
Raised on three turned screw-in black walnut legs that form a
tripod, paint and gilt decorated with bands of Egyptian motif.
Overall height 39 inches. Western United States shows National
Park (1872) and Dakota Territory undivided. Very nicely preserved
without blemishes to orb, few spots on horizon ring scale.
American globes prior to 1890 often used pre-Civil War maps as
their basis, updating geographical boundaries in colored inks on
the surface during coloring. Visual beauty rather than geographic
timeliness was often the rule. Boynton's revision makes real
changes to the engraving plate, "National Park" (Yellowstone)
being one. The beginning of accuracy in American globe
cartography. On a rare and exquisite floor stand. A true
conversation piece.
I.D.#10432.
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