Beschreibung:

WRIGHT, Gabriel BARDIN, William, London, 1782 A pair of 12-inch (30.5cm.) diameter table globes, the terrestrial FERGUSONS TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Improv'd by G. WRIGHT, Wherein all the new Discoveries of the late Capt Cook and other eminent navigators are correctly laid down to the Present Time Made & Sold by W m.Bardin, N o.4, Hind Court, Fleet Street. made up of twelve delicately hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, each with an engraved hour dial, the southern calotte with Published according to Act of Parliament by W. Bardin , the equatorial graduated in degrees in two directions, the Greenwich meridian ungraduated, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with symbols, the oceans with an analemma, a wind rose in the north Pacific, wind directions and the Antipodes of London , the Indian Ocean showing Course of the WINDS called MONSOONS and three sets of arrows with the names of months, also showing the tracks of Cook's three voyages with various dates, Furneaux's Track 1773 and Com. Anson's Track , other details such as Isles explored by the Spaniards , Isle disc. 1664 , L d. seen by Mendanna 1568 north of Hawaii, and Desert Isl d s.seen by Marian 1772 , the Antarctic with no coastline and notes such as Many Islands and Fields of Ice , the continents with nation states delicately outlined or shaded in green and showing towns, cities and rivers, the mountains in pictorial relief, China showing the Great Wall, north-eastern Siberia labelled Country of the Tschutka , Africa with a note beneath Ethiopia This Country is very little known by the Europeans and other notes such as Head of the River unknown and Back Bone of the World across CAFFRERIA , Northern India labelled MOGULS EMPIRE , Japan labelled NIPHON , Australia showing NEW SOUTH WALES disc. 1770 with Tasmania joined to the southern coast and labelled Diemens Land disc. 1642 , New Guinea with no southern coastline, Western Brazil lablled COUNTRY OF THE AMAZONS and Parts scarce known , Patagonia labelled TERRA MAGELLANICA a low Desert Coast , North America showing Bay of Good Hope Here Capt n.Cook repair'd , Port Buccarelly, disc d.by the Spaniards , North West Continent of America, discovered by Capt. Cook, in 1780 , several mentions of ESKIMAUX , Middleton's Difcoveries 1742 , northern Greenland showing Here the Hills are said to be cover'd with Snow & the Weather temperate ( several old repaired cracks and areas of discolouration, particularly to poles ); the celestial WRIGHT'S New Improv'd CELESTIAL GLOBE On which the Stars are correctly laid down from the Observations of Dr HALLEY, Dr BRADLEY, & c. Made & Sold by Wm. Bardin, No:4, Hind Court, Fleet Street, LONDON. , made up of twelve delicately hand-coloured engraved gores, the equatorial and the equinoctial and solstitial colures graduated in degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with symbols, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments and labelled in Latin, the stars to seven orders of magnitude, some labelled in Latin, some within constellations labelled with Greek characters, a separate inscription around the southern ecliptic polar circle Published according to Act of Parliament by G. Wright & W m.Bardin. Jan y.1 s t.1782. , the celestial polar circles with printed hour dials ( a few old repaired cracks at poles, some small areas of discolouration ); both spheres with a brass pointer at the north pole, polished engraved brass meridian circle divided in four quadrants and graduated in degrees on one side only ( replacement ), the mahogany horizon with delicately hand-coloured paper circle graduated in degrees, days of the month and days of the houses of the Zodiac with symbols, pictures and names, also showing wind directions and edged in red, the four mahogany quadrant supports to carved and turned central column, with three outswept legs terminating in pad feet ( compasses missing )-- 24in. (61cm.) high Se