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[Globes]. "Newton's New & Improved Terrestrial Globe drawn from the Surveys of the most esteemed Navigators & Travellers".
Terrestrial globe, with 10 mounted col. woodengr. paper gores, brass calotte and meridian, Ø ±23 cm., wooden horizon ring, resting on three turned wooden supports, total height ±37 cm, London, Newton, late 19th cent. - AND a late 19th/ early 20th cent. edition of a uniform celestial globe by the same, on uniform turned supports (a few sm. worn spots).
- Terrestrial globe: browned (prob. from darkening of varnish); some chipped spots, mostly in Northern hemisphere. Celestial globe: similarly browned; a few sl. worn/ chipped spots.
= Cf. Van der Krogt, Old Globes in the Netherlands, New 2 (Terrestrial globe). The firm of the Newton family was active until the early 20th cent.