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GLOBE - LORING, Josiah Terrestrial Globe containi

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Boston: Gilman Joslin, 1846. 12-inch diameter (305 mm) engraved terrestrial table globe on engraved brass meridian ring, made up of twelve hand-colored gores and two polar calottes, the North and South Poles printed with hour circles, the North Pole fitted with engraved brass hour ring, the equatorial graduated in degrees, hours and minutes, the ecliptic graduated in days of the month and the houses of the Zodiac; horizon bar with onlaid papers graduated in degrees in both directions, days of the month and houses of the Zodiac supported by four baluster-turned fruitwood legs united by a turned cross stretcher (overall height 457 mm). Compiled from Smith's New English Globe, with additions and improvements by Annin & Smith, revised by Roswell Park (1846). Condition: large areas of upper hemisphere infilled and restored with portions redrawn and colored, some old abrasions, small dent in Arctic Ocean off north coast of Alaska; stand with restored horizon bar with abrasions along perimeter and browning and spotting of papers, split stretcher arms. loring globes were engraved by william b. annin (d. 1839) and george g. smith, but were sold by loring, a boston bookseller. The pair copied the globes of C. Smith and Son, London (as credited on the cartouche), updating and improving them. From about 1839 Loring (1775-1840) was assisted by Gilman Joslin (1804-1886), another Boston bookseller, who continued to sell them under his own name following Loring's death. E. Dekker and P. van der Krogt, Globes from The Western World (London, 1993). p. 126.

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