£2,250
Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings & Works of Art | 660
Auction: Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings & Works of Art
mounted with a brass meridian, 18 gore, the circular cartouche printed 'Carys New and improved CELESTIAL GLOBE on which is carefully laid down the whole of the stars and nebulae contained in the astronomical catalogue of the Revd. Mr Wollaston, FRS, compiled from the authorities of Flamsteed, De La Caille, Hevelius, Mayer, Bradley, Herschil, Mashelyn, & C. with an exteufive number from the works of Mifs. Herschel. The whole adapted to the year 1800 and the limits of the constellation decriment by a boundry line. LONDON. Sold by M Berge (late Ramsden) No. 199 Picadilly Jan 1801'; the stand lacking