Description

A signed: “SILBERRAD 34 ALDGATE LONDON 1815” pocket globe.

A 2 ¾” (7cm) terrestrial pocket globe made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, the equator graduated in hours twice and degrees, the ecliptic graduated in days with symbols for the houses of the Zodiac, the Meridian of London graduated in degrees, the oceans showing trade winds and Cook’s Track, the continents delicately coloured in green, pink and yellow, no North Canadian coastline, China with Great Wall, South Africa labelled Country of the Hottentots, no Antarctic with steel axis pins[al1]  in spherical fishskin-covered case with one hook.

The inside laid with two sets of twelve celestial gores and two polar calottes, coloured green, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures.

VERY GOOD CONDITION THROUGHOUT

(reflections on photos are only due to illumination)

Charles Silberrad (w1799 – 1834) at 34 Aldgate Within ,London was apprentic of Charles Lincoln. He signed microscopes, sundials and globes (Clifton, ad vocem).