THE 13 INCH JAMES WILSON GLOBE

American. James Wilson. A NEW AMERICAN THIRTEEN INCH TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, Exhibiting with the greatest possible accuracy, the positions of the principal known places of the earth; with the tracks of various circumnavigators together with new discoveries and political alterations down to the present period: 1831 by J. Wilson & Sons Albany St. N.Y. S. WOOD & SONS, AGENTS. NEW YORK. 1831. Tan engraved gores over plaster on metal orb, probably copper. Lacks time arrow at North Pole. Shows equinoctial colure, ecliptic, prevailing winds, analemma and the routes of numerous explorers. Stamped and machined brass full ring meridian in full mount four-legged table stand with engraved colored horizon ring scale. Hawaii called Sandwich Islands or Owyhee with notes on the death of Cook in 1779 and Hergest and two others in 1792. New Holland or Australasia not yet divided into provinces. In North America, Louisiana and Missouri are states but entire Northwest called Missouri Territory and Southwest called Internal Provinces (of Mexico). Allegorical title vignette and possibly the gores by D.W. Wilson and engraved by Balch, Rawdon & Co. Surface professionally cleaned but many small black mildew spots remain. Still attractive example of an increasingly hard to find American globe by the Father of American globe making, James Wilson. I.D.#10200.