€12.500,00 Categories: Cartography/Globes, Handcoloured, Highlights, New Acquisitions London, 1835 - London, Newton & Son Nr. 12638
A 3-inch (7.6cm.) diameter terrestrial globe made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, cartouche in north Pacific NEWTON’S New & Improved TERRESTRIAL GLOBE. Published by Newton & Son 66 Chancery Lane & 3. Fleet St, Temple Bar. The equatorial graduated in degrees, the Meridian of London ungraduated, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses [...]
€18.500,00 Categories: Cartography/Globes, Handcoloured, Highlights, History, New Acquisitions (1820-1830) - London, Newton & Son Nr. 12635
Newton’s new & improved terrestrial and celestial globes The diameter of the globes is 2.75 inches (7 cm). The total height, including the stands, is 6.75 inches (15 cm). A beautiful pair of miniature desk globes, with 12 hand-colored engraved gores on plaster spheres, mounted to nineteenth-century calibrated brass meridian rings and carved wooden stands. [...]