(GLOBE) Joslin Gilman Joslins Terrestrial Globe Containing A

Sale 2512 - Lot 77

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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000

(GLOBE.) Joslin, Gilman. Joslin's Terrestrial Globe Containing All the Late Discoveries and Geographical Improvements, Also the Tracks of the Most Celebrated Circumnavigators. Compiled from Smith's New English Globe, with Additions and Improvements by Annin & Smith. Revised by G.W. Boynton. 12-inch American table globe comprised of 12 hand-colored engraved gores, two polar calottes and a calibrated brass meridian ring on its original four-legged turned maple stand with engraved hand-colored zodiacal horizon band. 18 inches height overall; lovely original hand-color and patina; few unobtrusive age cracks, horizon band and base with small repairs, overall excellent condition. Boston, circa 1890

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Very nice nineteenth-century American table globe. Several important political updates are included in the northwest of America showing the addition of several states to the Union: North and South Dakota (each admitted 1889), Montana (1889), Washington (1889), and Idaho (1890).