A pair of Newton and Son ‘New & Improved’ 15 inch globes

Each of these globes is set into a walnut stand with burr walnut veneers to the frieze and a solid turned and gadrooned walnut bluster support. This is raised on three acanthus carved C-curve legs centred on compass roses (replaced). The sharply carved lion’s paw feet enclose the original brass castors. The terrestrial globe label reads ‘Newton’s new and improved terrestrial globe accurately delineated from the observations of the most esteemed Navigators and Travellers to the Present Time, manufactured by Newton and Son. No. 66, Chancery Lane – 3 Fleet Street, Temple Bar, London, Published Febry Ist 1864’. The celestial globe label reads: ‘Newton’s New and Improved Celestial Globe on which all the Stars are taken from the elaborate and most approved Catalogue of Piazzi, the Nebulas from Bode and the double stars and those with proper motions from South. The Right Ascensions & Declinations of the whole having been recalculated and accurately laid down for the year 1851. By Mr. W. Newton. Manufactured by Newton & Son, Chancery Lane, London, Published, Ist March, 1860. The horizon rings are also signed ‘Newton & Son No. 66, Chancery Lane and 3 Fleet Street, Temple Bar, London’. English, dated 1860 and 1864.

Estimate:$58,783.52

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