A WILLIAM IV TWELVE-INCH TERRESTRIAL LIBRARY TABLE GLOBE J. ADDISON AND COMPANY, LONDON, CIRCA 1835 The sphere applied with two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved split half-gores incorporating circular panel inscribed J. ADDISON'S, New & Improved, TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, Containing all the latest Discoveries and, GEOGRAPHICAL IMPROVEMENTS, also the Tracks of the most celebrated, Circum Navigators, Carefully Delineated by, J. ADDISON & Co., Globe Makers by appointment, to his Majesty, GEORGE IV, Made and Sold by J. ADDISON, No. 116 Regent Street, London to the North Pacific, extensively annotated with fully graduated equatorial calibrated in minutes and degrees, ecliptic and meridians, the Pacific ocean with an analemma TABLE of EQUATION, many explorers' tracks and numerous notes and dates, Antarctica with no land shown except for Graham's Land and Enderby's Land both dated 1833, the continents with nation states faintly colour-outlined, showing cities, towns, rivers, mountains in pictorial relief including marine topography, with engraved brass hour dial to the North pole and pivoted within brass meridian circle divided for degrees, set within hand-coloured engraved paper horizon ring with compass points and degrees in both directions, pictorial representations of the Zodiac and calendar scales, the tripod stand incorporating four quadrants supporting the meridian ring over reeded squat baluster upright and downcurved supports, with stretcher centred with a glazed paper compass dial printed with elaborate thirty-two point rose within outer scale divided for degrees, and terminating with tapered feet, (compass needle lacking). 61cm (24ins) high, 44cm (17.25ins) diameter overall. John Addison is recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as a Globe maker working from Regent Street, 50 London Street (Fitzroy Square) and 7 Hampstead Road, London 1800 - 1819. He was granted Royal appointment in 1820 and was trading as Addison and Co. after around 1815. Latterly John Addison and Company are recorded working from 9 Skinner Street (Snow Hill) 1800-21, 116 Regent Street 1822-25 and finally 275 Strand 1829-30. Addison is known to have produced terrestrial and celestial globes in many sizes from three inch through to his magnificent thirty-six inch 'Terraqueous Globe'.
A WILLIAM IV TWELVE-INCH TERRESTRIAL LIBRARY TABLE GLOBE J. ADDISON AND COMPANY, LONDON, CIRCA 1835 The sphere applied with two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved split half-gores incorporating circular panel inscribed J. ADDISON'S, New & Improved, TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, Containing all the latest Discoveries and, GEOGRAPHICAL IMPROVEMENTS, also the Tracks of the most celebrated, Circum Navigators, Carefully Delineated by, J. ADDISON & Co., Globe Makers by appointment, to his Majesty, GEORGE IV, Made and Sold by J. ADDISON, No. 116 Regent Street, London to the North Pacific, extensively annotated with fully graduated equatorial calibrated in minutes and degrees, ecliptic and meridians, the Pacific ocean with an analemma TABLE of EQUATION, many explorers' tracks and numerous notes and dates, Antarctica with no land shown except for Graham's Land and Enderby's Land both dated 1833, the continents with nation states faintly colour-outlined, showing cities, towns, rivers, mountains in pictorial relief including marine topography, with engraved brass hour dial to the North pole and pivoted within brass meridian circle divided for degrees, set within hand-coloured engraved paper horizon ring with compass points and degrees in both directions, pictorial representations of the Zodiac and calendar scales, the tripod stand incorporating four quadrants supporting the meridian ring over reeded squat baluster upright and downcurved supports, with stretcher centred with a glazed paper compass dial printed with elaborate thirty-two point rose within outer scale divided for degrees, and terminating with tapered feet, (compass needle lacking). 61cm (24ins) high, 44cm (17.25ins) diameter overall. John Addison is recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as a Globe maker working from Regent Street, 50 London Street (Fitzroy Square) and 7 Hampstead Road, London 1800 - 1819. He was granted Royal appointment in 1820 and was trading as Addison and Co. after around 1815. Latterly John Addison and Company are recorded working from 9 Skinner Street (Snow Hill) 1800-21, 116 Regent Street 1822-25 and finally 275 Strand 1829-30. Addison is known to have produced terrestrial and celestial globes in many sizes from three inch through to his magnificent thirty-six inch 'Terraqueous Globe'.
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