Josiah Loring's 12-inch Celestial Globe

Description:

Josiah Loring's 12-inch Celestial Globe, c. 1833, twenty-four engraved and hand-colored gores, with cartouche reading in part Loring's Celestial Globe Containing all the known Stars Nebulae, The Transactions of the Astronomical Society of London, Boston Josiah Loring 136 Washington St., the constellations labeled and represented as stylized mythological figures, beasts, and instruments of science, brass hour pointer, and meridian ring, engraved and printed horizon band on wood with Zodiacal and Gregorian calendars, all resting on a "X"-form stretcher with turned legs, ht. 17 in.

Provenance: Collection of Vera Rubin.
Estimate $400-600

losses, staining and crackes to printed gores, horizon band split at joint, original finish to base


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