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216 – (Objet, Globe) -
FRANKS, J.H.- White's plane globe.
Sheffield, W. White, 1839.
2 copper engraved maps of the hemispheres, diam. 21 cm, hand-outline coloured.
Each mounted as a volvelle beneath fixed brass meridian, within a folding hardboard cover, lettered in gilt
(slightly damaged cover).
Est.
:
250/ 300 €
Didactical lower cost substitute for a spherical globe. Both hemispheremaps show continents
with major cities, rivers and deserts. The Northern hemisphere shows the Republic of Texas
and "New Albion" and the later California, as part of Mexico. Surrounding the hemispheres
are various diagrams representing the eclipses of sun and moon, umbra and penumbra of
the sun, precession of the equinox, the tides, the seasons, the earth's convexity, the transit
of Venus, plus a table with symbols and names of the signs of the zodiac.
¶ Instrument didactique représentant un planisphère dont les hémisphères tournent sous un méridien
fixe en cuivre. Autour des hémisphères : différents diagrammes avec saisons, marées, éclipses, etc.
217 – (Objet, Globe) -
Nesting wooden egg with English pocket globe inside.
19
th
Century.
Chromolithography, diameter : 4,4 cm, height container : 9 cm.
Est.
:
500/ 600 €
Terrestrial globe made up of 12 coloured printed paper gores on a steel axis pin, fitting
in a wooden egg-formed carrying case. Represented are the equator, the tropics and the
eccliptic. English topographical nomenclature although Tibet is named "Tübet" like in 19
th
century German literature. Continents in yellow, pink and orange. Outer egg decorated with
painted flowers, butterflies, hunting scene and a drinking peasant.
# von Klaproth.- Asia polyglotta, 1823, p. 345.
¶ Globe miniature en chromolithographie, dans récipient ovoïde de bois peint.
218 – (Afrique du Sud) -
TROYE, Gustav Arthur.- Map of the Transvaal or S.A.
Republic.
Pretoria, Fehr & Dubois (Wintherthur Switzerland, engraved and printed by Wurster,
Randegger & Cy), 1892.
6 sheets (54 x 76 cm), lithographed, assembled and mounted on cloth, total size : 151,5 x 161,5 cm, folded
(browned, cracked, edges trimmed).
Est.
:
500/ 600 €
Troye's greatest cartographical achievement and according to Prof. Elri Liebenberg "the
most complete, accurate and attractive map of the Transvaal produced up to that time".
Gustav Troye was an associate of Fred and Charles Jeppe. After years spending to fit the
patchwork of incompatible cadasters, their joint forces resulted in compilation maps on both
sides. This map, inspired by Jeppe's third map of 1889, is compiled from actual surveys
and supplemented with valuable information from Fred Jeppe, Richard Kelsey Loveday
and others. Troye used farm diagrams and inspector's records to map farm boundaries
and list farm names, hence the most striking feature of this map is a network of red lines
crisscrossing the landscape. With an inset map of South-Africa on scale 1/5000000.
# L.F. Braun, Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South-Africa, 2014, p. 193.
# Biographical database of Southern African Science.; # Tooley IV-292. # Liebenberg, "Die
Kartierung von Süd-Afrika [...].", Cartographica Helvetica 30 (2004), pp. 31-32.
¶ Carte de compilation cadastrale du Transvaal avec limites et noms des fermes.
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