Fine American Twelve-Inch Library Globe on Stand

$2,300.00

Fine American Twelve-Inch Library Globe on Stand, c. 1870, the cartouche reading "Joslin's/ Terrestrial Globe/ containing all/ the Late Discoveries/ and Geographical Improvements/ also the tracks of/ the most celebrated Circumnavigators/ Compiled from Smith's new English Globe with/ additions and improvements by Annis & Smith/ Revised by G. W. Boynton/ Manufactured by Gilman Joslin, Boston", hand-colored engraved gores, full brass meridian with degrees, paper horizon band showing houses of the zodiac and months, on turned three-legged stand, h. 38 in., w. 22 in. (base).

Fine American Twelve-Inch Library Globe on Stand, c. 1870, the cartouche reading "Joslin's/ Terrestrial Globe/ containing all/ the Late Discoveries/ and Geographical Improvements/ also the tracks of/ the most celebrated Circumnavigators/ Compiled from Smith's new English Globe with/ additions and improvements by Annis & Smith/ Revised by G. W. Boynton/ Manufactured by Gilman Joslin, Boston", hand-colored engraved gores, full brass meridian with degrees, paper horizon band showing houses of the zodiac and months, on turned three-legged stand, h. 38 in., w. 22 in. (base).