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In-folio (32,3 x 22,6 cm), [2] ff, 8 double maps, 10 plates each with a page of explanations, [1] f (table of geographical & spherical figures contained in this Atlas). The maps show the world map, Europe, the Kingdom of France (2x), Asia, Africa, North America, and South America. The plates show the terrestrial globe, [...]

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195, (5), (140) p. 19th-century Leather binding, 12° H. 11 x L. 8 x W. 2 cm. With a contemporary hand-coloured title and several hand-coloured capitals. Old annotations in the margin. Claude Chevallon, 1479-1537, was a medieval French printer. His printer’s mark had been two horses. He added the sun to this when his shop [...]

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A beautiful pair of Library Globes. H. 125 cm. (49 inches), Diam. 53 cm. (21 inches) The two spheres are in a perfect state of freshness and are perfectly legible. There have been some professional repairs to some damaged gores. The Terrestrial globe is in good conserved and legible condition, it has areas of rubbing, [...]

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GLOBES
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19th cent. - s.l., s.n.
Nr. 12578

The 4.25 inch. (10 cm.) spheres applied with twelve printed gores and polar calottes pivoted via the poles within brass half-meridian rings, each mounted on top of alabaster columns with molded capitals, notable entasis to the shafts and Tuscan-style bases, the plinths with gilt fluted black marble cavetto top moldings and roundel-centered skirts incorporating shaped [...]

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A rare pair of miniature terrestrial and celestial globes, each with 12 hand-coloured engraved paper gores, over a papier mâché and plaster sphere. Diameter globes: 7 cm. Total high: 14,5 cm. The globes have been cleaned and re-varnished, and the stands are later.

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Original richly blind-stamped vellum, spine renewed. (20), 235, (47) p. Folio. Title-page within a woodcut border, woodcut initials and tailpieces, 88 numbered, full-page plates, and one unnumbered folding double-page plate of a leaping horse, with a circular diagram of the anatomy of the horse. A free and extended German adaptation of one of the most [...]

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Fine double pocket globe. [The Earth as it is now known]. A very desirable terrestrial and celestial “Mother and Child”, or double globe; the terrestrial globe with 12 beautiful original hand-coloured engraved paper gores over a plaster sphere. All are nicely housed within the celestial globe made of two wooden hemispheres, each covered with 12 [...]

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Miniature terrestrial globe with a diameter of 1,75 inches / 4,5 cm. This lovely miniature terrestrial globe consists of twelve copper engraved, hand coloured gores over a wooden base. The gores are varnished. The colouring is both subtle and original. With a central pin contained in a colourful card box. A little about miniature globes: [...]

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A very rare Dutch miniature terrestrial globe with a diameter of 2,5 inches / 6 cm. 2 legends are inscribed and seen. One is in the Pacific Ocean in a small cartouche: t’AMSTERDAM / Excudit / Iohannes Deur. The second is in the Indian Ocean: I. Deur Fecit. There are only three recorded examples of [...]

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A delightful miniature terrestrial pocket globe in a celestial case, 3 inches / 6.8 cm. The globe consists of 12 wonderful varnished, engraved hand-coloured gores that stretch from pole to pole. In the original case of black fish-skin with a brass hinge and two brass hook-and-eyelet closures, case with a unique silver plaque which reads: [...]

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Miniature terrestrial globe with a diameter of 1,5 inches / 3,8 cm. This lovely miniature terrestrial globe consists of twelve copper engraved, hand coloured gores over a plaster and papier-mache base. The gores are varnished. The colouring is both subtle and original. The simple title is found in the North Pacific Ocean. Two metal pinions [...]

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Miniature terrestrial globe with a diameter of 2 inches / 5 cm. In a turned and stained beech two-section case, 10 cm. high. (With small damages to Africa, Asia, and Australia).

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