Lot 41
Lot 41
A QUARTET OF 7-INCH GLOBES AND ARMILLARY SPHERES

DELAMARCHE, 1791

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GBP 30,000 - GBP 50,000
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A QUARTET OF 7-INCH GLOBES AND ARMILLARY SPHERES

DELAMARCHE, 1791

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A QUARTET OF 7-INCH GLOBES AND ARMILLARY SPHERES
DELAMARCHE, 1791
the terrestrial with cartouche Dressé Par Delamarche Géogr. Rue du Foin St. Jacques A PARIS An. 1791, 1791 showing the latest discoveries in the oceans and polar regions, Australia joined to Tasmania, Greenland joined to Canada, mountains, rivers, towns and The Great Wall of China shown in the continents; the celestial with carotuche A PARIS Chez le Sieur Delamarche géo. Rue du Foin St. Jacq. au College de Me. Gervais and three other cartouches, the stars given to six orders of magnitude, the constellations depicted with mythical beasts and figures, each composed of twelve hand coloured engraved gore; the Ptolemaic armillary with miniature terrestrial globe GLOBE TERRESTRE A PARIS Mr Delamarche rue de Foin Jacq au College de Mr Gervais; the Copernican armillary with six rings, one bearing the Earth Moon system on pulley with the central sun; each supported on restored delamarche pattern stand
each 41 x 27 x 27cm.
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