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A fine pair of mid 19th-Century 18-inch library globes, by Smith & Son, London, c.1850, the terrestrial SMITH'S TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Containing the whole of THE LATEST DISCOVERIES AND Geographical Improvements, also the TRACKS of the most celebrated Circumnavigators. LONDON SMITH & SON, 63 CHARING CROSS , made up of two sets of twenty-four hand-coloured engraved gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees of amplitude and azimuth and in hours and minutes, the colures and Greenwich meridian graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in twelve times 1-30° with sigils for the houses of the Zodiac, the oceans with an analemma and finely detailed with the tracks of Columbus, Cook, La Perouse, Vancouver, Clerke, Gore, Ross and Furneaux, with dates and notes such as Sea weeds & Birds seen and A piece of Wood & Seaweed seen , also with generally used tracks between ports with seasonal variation, such as Tr. sometimes made from the West Indies and To the Persian Gulf in the S. l yMonsoon and from in the N. t hE. s t , with various other notes such as the location of rocks, the Atlantic also showing THE ORDINARY COURSE of the FLORIDA STREAM and the Newfoundland Bank, Antarctica with coastline shown for Graham Land, Enderby's Land, Adelie Land, Sabrina Land and South Victoria, with notes concerning their discovery joined by faintly dotted projected coastline, and other notes including CLARIE Supposed Land and Numerous Icebergs and indication of Land March 1839 , the continents with most nation states outlined in green, red and orange, some further shaded green, finely detailed showing towns, cities, rivers and mountains, with innumerable notes, China showing the Great Wall, Australia divided into five states, Tasmania labelled VAN DIEMENS LAND , the islands of New Zealand labelled with Maori and English names: New Munster / TAVAI POENAMOO and New Ulster / EAHEI NOMAUWE , Africa showing caravan routes and other notes concerning oases and various mines, Lake Tanganyika shown, North America showing the territories of numerous Indian nations; the celestial SMITH'S CELESTIAL GLOBE Containing all the principal Stars Compiled from the Works of WOLLASTON, FLAMSTEED, DE LA CAILLE, HAVELIUS [sic] , MAYER, BRADLEY, HERSCHEL, MASKELYNE, the Transactions of the ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY of LONDON &c.&c. SMITH & SON, 63 CHARING CROSS , made up of two sets of twenty-four engraved half-gores laid to the ecliptic poles, the axis through the celestial poles, the equatorial graduated in degrees, hours and minutes, the colures graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in twelve times 1-30° with sigils for the houses of the Zodiac, and in days of the month, with twilight zone, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments and bounded by dotted lines, the stars shown to nine orders of magnitude, with nebulae, and labelled with Arabic numerals and Greek and Roman characters, some named; both spheres with engraved brass hour dial and stamped meridian ring divided in four quadrants, in a mahogany library stand with hand-coloured copied horizon paper showing degrees of amplitude and azimuth, compass directions and days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, with some faint hand-colouring and edged in red, the brass meridian support on the celestial engraved Instruments de Science et de Geographie importes par Biennais fournisseur Service du Ministre de la Marine , the horizon raised on three tapering square-section legs terminating in castors, united by baluster turned cross stretchers to the 24.4cm. dia. mahogany-cased glazed compass with blued-steel needle and engraved paper dial graduated 1-360° and in four quadrants, with thirty-two point wind rose and signed around the centre J.& W. Cary STRAND LONDON ( water-damaged ) -- 116.5cm. (45 7/8in.) high See Illustrations (2)