3rd Nov, 2015 12:00

Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art ('Encounter')

 
  Lot 143
 

143

[M] An early 19th-century French terrestrial table...

An early 19th-century French terrestrial table globe
signed in the main cartouche GLOBE TERRESTRE Dresse d'apres les relations les plus recents, par Th. Delamarche Successeur de Robert de Vaugondy 1821 and in a second cartouche À PARIS, Chez Fx Delamarche et Charles Dien, Rue du Jardinet No 13, Quartier St Andre des armes, showing the known geographical details of the time, such as central Africa marked Interieur tout-a-fait inconnu, no Lake Victoria, Hottentots to the South: Alaska as Amerique Russe, and the Amazon basin Territoire des Missions, the globe held in a horizon ring supported by four quadrants, in a turned ebonised wood column and circular base, glove -- 8.5in. (22cm.) diam; overall stand -- 19¾in. (50cm.) high


Condition Report
Overall condition very good, noting a few old restorations.

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An early 19th-century French terrestrial table globe
signed in the main cartouche GLOBE TERRESTRE Dresse d'apres les relations les plus recents, par Th. Delamarche Successeur de Robert de Vaugondy 1821 and in a second cartouche À PARIS, Chez Fx Delamarche et Charles Dien, Rue du Jardinet No 13, Quartier St Andre des armes, showing the known geographical details of the time, such as central Africa marked Interieur tout-a-fait inconnu, no Lake Victoria, Hottentots to the South: Alaska as Amerique Russe, and the Amazon basin Territoire des Missions, the globe held in a horizon ring supported by four quadrants, in a turned ebonised wood column and circular base, glove -- 8.5in. (22cm.) diam; overall stand -- 19¾in. (50cm.) high

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