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GLOBE - DELAMARCHE, C.F. Globe Terrestre; Rédigé a
GLOBE - DELAMARCHE, C.F. Globe Terrestre; Rédigé a
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GLOBE - DELAMARCHE, C.F. Globe Terrestre; Rédigé astronomiquement, et où la trouvant les trois voyages du Capit. Cook ...Paris: [ n.d., c.1806]. Terrestrial Table Globe, 12-inch diameter (305 mm) overall height 590mm. The globe made up of two sets of twelve hand-colored engraved gores and two polar calottes, varnished, original painted gesso meridian ring, with engraved hour circle and brass pointer mounted to top. The globe set in an ebonised oak four-legged stand; painted gesso horizon bar with onlaid papers graduated in degrees, days of the month and houses of the Zodiac on four baluster-turned legs united by a cross stretcher. Condition: on globe, areas of both hemispheres infilled and restored, with some old cracks and small abrasions; on stand, some old cracks and abrasions to horizon bar with occasional discoloration to papers. A fine globe by French lawyer- turned cartographer Charles François Delamarche (1740-1817). The globe traces in detail the track of Captain James Cook (1728-1779) during his three epic voyages of discovery around the Pacific. Although the relative accuracy of Delamarche's globe indeed owes much to the British Captain Cook's exploration of vast areas of the North and South Pacific, he also credits the reports of fellow Frenchman La Pérouse (1741-1788?). La Pérouse is renowned for his own extensive maritime explorations of the North and South Pacific, including the coasts of Alaska, California, Japan, New Guinea, New Holland (now Australia), Russia and certain Pacific islands before his mysterious disappearance (his wreck off the shore of the Solomon island of Vanikoro was still a mystery at the time this globe was produced). See Peter Van Der Krogt, Old Globes in the Netherlands (pp. 98-103) and Stevenson, Terrestrial and Celestial Globes. p. 190.

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GLOBE - DELAMARCHE, C.F. Globe Terrestre; Rédigé a

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