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| FINE 13" JAMES WILSON GLOBE - SOLD
Tan engraved gores over plaster on metal orb, probably copper, precision time arrow fastened to meridian at North Pole. Shows equinoctial colure, ecliptic, prevailing winds, analemma and the routes of numerous explorers. Stamped and machined brass full ring meridian in full mount table stand with engraved colored horizon ring scale. Hawaii called Sandwich Islands or Owyhee with notes on the death of Cook in 1779 and Hergest and two others in 1792. New Holland or Australasia not yet divided into provinces. In North America, Louisiana and Missouri are states but entire Northwest called Missouri Territory and Southwest called Internal Provinces. Title vignette and possibly the gores by D.W. Wilson and engraved by Balch, Rawdon & Co. A definitive view of the earth and its explorations of the late 18th Century. Some rubbing at equator and slight damage in South Pacific but an overall excellent specimen well preserved. ITEM# 07815
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1-World Global Gifts
WILSON, JAMES.
A NEW
AMERICAN THIRTEEN INCH TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, Exhibiting With The Greatest Possible
Accuracy, The Positions Of The Principal Known Places Of The Earth; With The
Tracks Of Various Circumnaviagators Together With New Discoveries And Political
Alterations Down To The Present Period: 1831 By J. Wilson & Sons Albany St.
N.Y. S. WOOD & SONS, AGENTS. NY. ©1831.
