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A pair of 12-inch Newton & Son library table globes
Price range: £20,000 - £30,000
The terrestrial globe has 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 features 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 globe is supported on a spirally-fluted shaft resting on a 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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