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Antique Globes>Globe Pairs #10314

GEORGE III TABLE GLOBES WITH STATE OF FRANKLIN AND MATCHING CELESTIAL

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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