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Lot 5
Sale 623 - Worldly Pursuits:Estate of Steve & Peggy Fossett
Oct 30, 2018
9:59AM
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$8,000 -
12,000
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$27,500
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Lot Description
A Pair of Victorian Mahogany Twelve-Inch Library Globes
NEWTON & SON, LONDON, CIRCA 1838
comprising a terrestrial and celestial example, each raised on a tripod stand centered with a compass and ending in casters, the terrestrial globe signed in the cartouche Newton's/ New & Improved/ Terrestrial Globe/ Embracing every recent/ Discovery/ to the Present Time/ Manufactured by Newton, Son and Barry/ 66 Chancery Lane/ London, Published Jan. 1st 1838; the celestial globe signed in the cartouche Newton's/ New & Improved/ Celestial Globe/ On which all the Stars, Nebulae & Clusters contained/ in the exclusive Catalogue of the late F. Wallaston F.R.S./ are accurately laid down their Right Ascensions & Dedina.tns./ having been recalculated for the Year 1830 by W. Newton/ Manufactured by Newton & Son, Chancery Lane/ London, Published Jan. 1st 1840.
Height 35 inches.
