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| A 2¾ inch pocket globe, after Herman Moll, circa 1775. This item has been sold.
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| A fine pair of 21-inch terrestrial and celestial globes by J & W Cary.
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| This item has been sold.
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| A very fine late 18th century French globe.
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By Pierre Lapie, Geographer (w. 1779 to 1850).The globe is supported on a turned ebonised base with upright quadrants supporting the horizon ring.
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| A drum orrery by Harris & Co. circa 1820. The globe is labelled, Lane and Co.
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Benjamin Martin designed the drum type orrery. The mechanical works of this orrery are housed in a brass drum with a central fixed brass sun and articulated mechanical brass armatures mounted with ivory spheres representing nine orbiting bodies: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Ceres, Mars, Pallas Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. The Earth, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune are displayed with their separate orbiting moons.. Ceres (4th arm) is the only dwarf planet in the solar system and 2 Pallas (6th arm). 2 Pallas was considered a planet until the discovery of many additional asteroids which then led to its re-classification. The model of the Earth is a 3 inch paper globe labelled,’ Lane’s Improved Globe, 1818’. The case is engraved with the month, date and zodiacal rings and inscribed ‘Harris & Co. 50 Holborn London’, with an ivory mounted crank, raised on a central column and supported on three folding brass cabriole legs.
Height: 52 cm, 20 ½ inches, Length: 83 ¾ cm, 33 inches.
This orrery is featured in our new publication, Globes and the Mechanical Universe .
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| A pair of George Adams junior 12 inch table globes, 1782. These Globes Have Been Sold.
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| A six inch table globe, signed Newton Son and Berry and dated 1830. This item has been sold.
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Dimensions:
Height: 10 1/4 inches, 26 cm
Diameter of stand: 8 inches, 20 cm
Diameter of globe: 6 inches, 15 cm
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| A pair of 12” library table globes by Newton & Son, circa 1850
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The terrestrial globe with a cartouche reading ‘NEWTON’s New & Improved Terrestrial Globe Embracing every recent Discovery to the present time, Manufactured by NEWTON & SON, 66 Chancery Lane and 3 Fleet Street/Temple Bar’, and below ‘London Published Jan. 1st 1852’, the celestial globe with a cartouche reading ‘NEWTON’s New & Improved Celestial Globe on which all the Stars, Nebulae & Clusters contained in the extensive catalogue of the late F. Wollaston E.R.S. are accurately laid down, their Right Ascensions & Declinations having been recalculated for the Year 1840 by W. Newton/Manufactured by NEWTON & SON, 66 Chancery Lane and 3 Fleet Street, Temple Bar’, and below ‘London Published Jan. 1st 1851’, each with spirally-fluted shaft on tripod base, the cabriole legs terminating in pointed pad feet.
Height: 25 inches (63.5 cm), Diameter: 12 inches (30.5 cm)
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| A rare brass Ptolemaic armillary sphere by Christian Carl Schindler,
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active from 1680-1716 in Halle, Dresden (Germany). Schindler called himself "Mathematicus et Mechanicus"; the item is signed “Schindler M. & M. / fecit”. The horizon ring is divided into the calendar, zodiac symbols and pictorial representations, a 360-degree-scale, and compass directions in Latin; the engravings are coloured in red. The circular stand is made of turned fruitwood and a brass plate with compass.
Height: 46 cm
Width: 14 cm
Depth: 14 cm
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| A pair of 12 inch Cary table globes
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The terrestrial globe is inscribed: CARY’S NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, delineated from the best Authorities extant, Exhibiting the late Discoveries towards
the NORTH POLE, and every improvement in Geography, to the present Time. Made & sold by G. & J. Cary 86 St James’s Street,March 15th 1821.The celestial globe is dated Jan 1816 with the stars selected from most accurate observations and calculated for the year 1800. Both globes are supported on a mahogany stand with compass.
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| A pair of 12 inch globes by Benjamin Martin, Circa 1770
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Each on a mahogany tripod stand joined by stretchers and centred by a compass. Benjamin Martin was one of the largest producers of globes in England in the third quarter of the 18th century.
Height: 24 inches
Diameter of stand: 17 inches
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| A rare and superb mechanical orrery, signed Nairne & Blunt (1774-1793).
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| A pair of 18” terrestrial and celestial globes, by Bardin. These globes have been sold.
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| A rare George Adams 2 ¾ inch terrestrial globe, circa 1795
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| A 2¾ inch pocket globe after Herman Moll, circa 1775. This item has been sold.
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| A 2 ¾ inch pocket globe by Nicholas Lane, gores published 1809. This item has been sold.
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| A 2.75 in pocket terrestrial globe, by Nathaniel Hill, London, circa 1754.
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| A 3 inch pocket globe by John Newton Son & Berry, circa 1830. This item has sold.
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| Jones’s ‘New Portable Orrery’
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| A pair of 8 3/4 inch table globes, by Dudley Adams.
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| An 18 inch terrestrial globe by W & AK Johnston, circa 1900.
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| A 15-inch terrestrial globe by Newton, circa 1818. This globe has been sold.
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| A Fine pair of 15” Library Globes by G. & J. Cary, this item has been sold
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| An extremely rare pair of 12” terrestrial and celestial globes by Charles Price and Benjamin Scott. These globes have been sold.
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| A tellurion orrery by Claude-Simenon Passement
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| A pair of mid 18th century terrestrial and celestial table globes signed Homann (Heirs) Germany. These globes have been sold.
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| An 18th century Doppelmayr pocket globe. This item has been sold.
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| A pair of 16-inch library globes by Newton. These globes have been sold.
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| A 30-inch diameter terrestrial library globe by W. & A.K. Johnson. These globes have been sold.
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| A pair of extremely rare late 17th /early 18th century miniature terrestrial and celestial gilded globes. This item has been sold.
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| Ebsworth's 'New Portable Orrery'. This item has been sold.
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