Gilman Joslin
9.5-Inch Terrestrial Table Globe
Boston: 1869
Turned mahogany base, brass half meridian
15.5 inches high, 8.5 inch diameter base
$4,500
9.5-Inch Terrestrial Table Globe
Gilman Joslin, Boston: 1869
Gilman Joslin, Boston: 1869
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The terrestrial globe is canted in a brass uncalibrated half-meridian and raised on a turned mahogany stand with central baluster standard and dish base. The oceans are cream colored and geographical entities are cream or shaded green, with wide green outlining at the edges of major bodies of water. States, regions and territories shown west of Mississippi include Texas, California, and “Oregon Ter.” Canada is labeled "British America" and southwest Canada is labeled "Blackfoot Ind." Antarctica is not shown, but a point in the southern polar region is labeled “Capt. Weddell R.N. reached this point 1823.” Physical geography relating to temperate zones are indicated by lines showing the Northern and Southern “Limit of Wood,” “Limit of Grain,” “Limit of the Vine,” and “Limit of Bananas.” An hour circle is printed at the North Pole. A figure-eight analemma is in the Pacific Ocean and there are graduated dashed lines at the ecliptic and the equator.
This globe was made by Gilman Joslin, successor to Josiah Loring’s Boston globe making business. For more information about them, see our Guide to Globe Makers. This 1869 edition of the globe updates an 1860 edition that is referred to in the cartouche as “Loring’s … Terrestrial Globe” (rather than Joslin’s). The 1869 edition shows Alaska as such, but the 1860 edition shows it as Russian America.
Trapezoidal Cartouche: JOSLIN’S/ Nine and half Inch/ TERRESTRIAL/ GLOBE./ Manufactured by/ GILMAN JOSLIN, BOSTON./ 1869
Condition: Generally very good with the usual light scattered toning, wear, abrasions all now restored. Some light scattered spotting, unobtrusive. Stand generally very good, richly patinated.
References:
Dekker, Elly and Peter van der Krogt. Globes from the Western World. London: Zwemmer, 1993. pp. 126, 140 and 176.
Warner, Deborah Jean. “The Geography of Heaven and Earth.” Rittenhouse Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise. Vol. 2, No. 3 (1987), pp. 100-03.
Yonge, Ena L. A Catalogue of Early Globes, Library Series No. 6. American Geographical Society, 1968. pp. 37-38.