GLOBES ARMILLARY SPHERE Delamarche Charles Fran ois Pa

Sale 2540 - Lot 83

Price Realized: $ 9,375

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Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000

(GLOBES -- ARMILLARY SPHERE.) Delamarche, Charles-François. [Pair of 18th-century Ptolemaic and Copernican armillary spheres.] Ptolemaic - Central 2 1/2-inch terrestrial globe comprised of 12 hand-colored engraved gores with orbiting Sun and Moon discs on brass arms, hand-colored engraved calibration rings pasted to equatorial, ecliptic and Zodiac bands; appropriate restorations; later turned wooden base and baluster. Copernican - Central gilt wooden sun ball banded to a 3/4-inch terrestrial globe with moon disc surrounded by rings of the Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and bands representing the Solstice and Equinox; appropriate restorations; turned wooden base and baluster. Paris, circa 1780's

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