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A PAIR OF EARLY VICTORIAN 18 INCH DIAMETER LIBRARY GLOBES ON MAHOGANY STANDS BY J. WYLD, 1854 The TERRESTRIAL ' A TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Compiled from the latest & MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES including all the recent Geographical Discoveries, PUBLISHED BY J. WYLD 11 & 12 Charing Cross. LONDON. ', made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, with graduated equatorial, equinoctial colure and ecliptic, the oceans with an analemma, lines of magnetic variation, notes such as ' Here the Sea is 3 miles 222 feet in depth Sounded by Capt. n Ross in 1840 ' and a large cartouche of information in the southern pacific entitled ' TABLE OF THE ESTIMATED POPULATION OF THE WORLD ', Antarctica with projected coastline and various notes, the continents with nation states variously outlined in colour, some also shaded, showing towns, cities, rivers and mountains, some discolouration and neat restoration throughout, with some fading to detail; The CELESTIAL: ' A CELESTIAL GLOBE Exhibiting the whole of the Stars CONTAINED IN THE CATALOGUES OF PIAZZI, BRADLEY, HEVELIUS, MAYER, LA CAILLE & JOHNSON, the Double Stars from Sir W. Herschell & Struve, REDUCED TO THE YEAR 1860 PUBLISHED BY J. WYLD. Charing Cross East, NEXT DOOR TO THE POST OFFICE, LONDON. 1854. ', made up of twelve cream, pale green and orange engraved gores and two polar calottes, with graduated equatorial, colures and ecliptic, the last with twilight zone, the delicately rendered pictorial constellations with stars to nine orders of magnitude according to a table ' ARRANGED ACCORDING TO PIAZZI ', variously labelled according to another table, a note reading ' NB. The 100 Principal Stars quoted in the Nautical Almanac are underlined ', the constellations bounded by dotted outlines, some minor discolouration and neat restoration; both spheres with stamped brass hour dial and meridian circle, the mahogany horizon with hand-coloured engraved paper showing degrees of amplitude and azimuth, compass directions, days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac and figures for the equation of time, raised on four curved quadrant supports on a baluster turned column with three cabriole legs terminating in brass caps and castors, turned stretchers between supporting the glazed compass box with engraved paper with thirty-two point wind-rose, double circumference scale and blued-iron needle with brass cap 46 in. (117 cm.) high: 18 in. (46 cm.) diameter (2)