A fine pair of Victorian 18 inch floor-standing library globes J. Wyld, London, mid 19th century The terrestrial applied with twelve hand coloured printed gores and applied paper label A TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, Compiled from the latest, & MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES, including all the recent, Geographical Discoveries, PUBLISHED BY J. WYLD, Charing Cross East, NEXT DOOR TO THE POST OFFICE, LONDON to North Pacific and extensively annotated with principal cities, towns, rivers, lakes, mountains and other significant topological features and with the British colonies colour-outlined in pink, the oceans with 'lines of Variation' and all notable islands annotated, as well as other commentary such as Yedo the Capital of Japan contains 1200,000 inhab'ts and is the residence of the Koubo or Seular Emporer, Meaco or residence of the Mikado or Spiritual Emperor contains 500000 inhab'ts and 6000 Temples, the Pacific with an analemma for the equation of time over table entitled TABLE OF THE ESTIMATED POPULATION OF THE WORLD.., by G.S. Brent Fellow of the Statistical Society of London , the equatorial line graduated in degrees, hours and minutes, the Celestial of conforming construction and labelled A, CELESTIAL GLOBE, Exhibiting the whole of the, Stars, Contained on the Catalogues of, PIAZZI, BRADLEY, HEVEHNS, MAYER, LA CAILLE & JOHNSON, the Double Stars from Sir W. Herschel and Struve, PUBLISHED BY J. WYLD, Charing Cross East, NEXT DOOR TO THE POST OFFICE, LONDON to lower hemisphere beside scale for star intensity and other explanations, the solstitial and equinoctial colures and equatorial graduated in degrees with the latter also in hours and minutes, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and appropriately labelled along with the stars in Latin, both spheres with engraved hour dials to poles and pivoted within brass meridian circle divided for degrees, resting in wooden stand with hand coloured paper horizon ring graduated in degrees in two directions, days of the month and houses of the Zodiac with names and symbols and also showing compass directions, supported on four curved quadrant supports to a baluster turned upright issuing three downswept supports with compass supported via three turned stretchers between, the feet with tapered brass cups and castors, 58.5cm (25ins) maximum diameter, 107cm (42ins) high. James Wyld (II) is recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as a globe maker, map publisher and geographer who worked from several addresses in London including 454 West Strand (1837-1887), 454 Charing Cross East (1841-2), 2 Royal Exchange (1851) and Leicester Square (1848).