Science, Technology & Clocks
Description:
Assembled Pair of 13-inch Globes on Stands by Wilson, Albany, New York, c. 1834-36, both with twelve gore on plaster orbs, four legged maple and poplar stands, calibrated brass Meridian rings and callotes at the poles, the terrestrial with maker's cartouche in the Pacific Ocean stating in part Wilson's New American Thirteen Inch Terrestrial Globe Exhibiting with the Greatest Possible Accuracy the Positions of the Principal Known Places of the Earth...New Discoveries and Political Alterations down to the Present Period, 1836. By Cyrus Lancaster, Albany New York, printed horizon ring with signs of the Zodiac and calendar, the celestial with cartouche stating in part A New American Celestial Globe Containing the Positions of Nearly 5,000 stars...laid down from the Latest & Most Improved Astronomical Tables Reduced to the Present Time, 1834, by James Wilson & Sons, Albany, New York., hts.18 1/2 in.
Estimate $10,000-12,000
An assembled pair.
Terrestrial: Damage to south pole-lower end of South America area, cracked and in-filled, 1 1/4 in. hole in India, engraved horizon ring very dark, some rubbing below the equator, stand needs regluing on stretcher.
Celestial: minor discoloration and rubbing, does not rotate well in the stand.