***a Pair of 19th Century Smith's 18" Standing Library Globes, London
CIRCA 1840
Height: 43 1/2" Diameter of Globe: 18"
Inventory Number 8308-85
Price
$65,000
Description
Comprising a celestial globe bearing the cartouche: Smith's Celestial Globe, containing all the known stars. Nebulae compiled from the works of Wollaston, Flamsted, dela Caille, Bradley, Herschel, Markelyse. The transactions of the astronomical society of London and Co., London, I. Smith, 35 Leicester Square....", and a terrestrial globe showing the routes of many of the great explorers, political boundaries and ocean currents; each with fully engraved meridian circle and outring, on a mahogany pedestal stand issuing three downswept legs ending in brass caps and casters.
