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Antique Globes>Globe
Pairs #10314
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GEORGE
III TABLE GLOBES WITH STATE OF FRANKLIN AND MATCHING
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English.
Bardin, T.M. The New 12 Inch British
Terrestrial globe
representing the accurate positions of the principle known
places of the earth, from the discoveries of Captain Cook
and subsequent circumnavigators to the present period 1802
... with additions to 1807. Retailer's label (W.& S. Jones.
Holborn. London) obscuring lower part of title cartouche.
One end chipped. Aaron Arrowsmith engraved gores for Bardin
globes of this period and this information may lie beneath
the retailer's label. [With] The New Twelve
Inch British Celestial Globe,
containing the exact positions of more than 3800 Fixd Stars,
Nebulae; Plsanetary Nebulae; &c. According to the latest
discoveries and observations of Dr. Maskelyne; Dr. Herschell,
and other Eminent Astronomers and Adjusted to the present
period 1800. T.M. Bardin. London. 1807. Period full mount
stands raised on four turned legs and similar stretchers
supporting horizon ring with engraved scale. Restorations to
orb, gores and scale. Yonge lists a globe with the same
surface, 1802 but dated to 1805, in the Wilson Museum,
Castine, ME. Literature: Ena L. Yonge. A catalogue of early
globes. American Geographical Society Library series No. 6.
1968. p. 5; Tooley (Mapmakers) p.84; Der Globusfreund 41/42;
Millburn and Rossaak pp. 21-57. Only globe with the elusive
state of Franklin in eastern Tennessee. Rockies called
Stoney Mountains. The interior of Africa is left blank with
no speculative additions. South coast of Australia not
determined. On the celestial globe are seen constellations
such as Bootes, Corona Borealis, Canis Venatici,
Camelopardalis, Perseus and the Head of Medusa. Gives the
names provided by French astronomer Nicolas Louis de
Lacaille which include Equulerus Pictorius (Laicalle's
Pictor), Fornax Chemica (Fornax) and his Microscopium.
Professionally refurbished. We have only had the Bardin
terrestrial globe once. Finding a pair is unusual.
I.D.#10314.






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