Josiah Loring (globe gores)
Gilman Joslin (sold by)
12-Inch Celestial Table Globe
Boston: 1854
Turned maple stand
19 inches high; 17 inch diameter horizon band
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12-Inch Celestial Table Globe
Josiah Loring/Gilman Joslin, Boston: 1854
Josiah Loring/Gilman Joslin, Boston: 1854
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Celestial globe surmounted by a printed hour circle and brass hour pointer, within a full calibrated meridian, raised on a turned maple stand with four legs joined by an X-form stretcher. The horizon band has an engraved paper calendar and zodiac. The constellations, including zodiac signs, are elegantly depicted in the Baroque taste as mythical figures and beasts, and as scientific instruments. The stars are shown in a chart to nine orders of magnitude, together with planetary nebulae.
This globe was designed Josiah Loring, a bookseller who was joined by Gilman Joslin in the late 1830s. Joslin become one of the greatest and most prolific American globe makers ever. This example is rich in tone, retaining its original shellac. An earlier example of a Loring 12-inch celestial globe, dated 1841, was sold by George Glazer Gallery. It appears to be nearly identical to the offered 1854 edition; perhaps the only change was the date in the cartouche.
Read more about Joslin in our Guide to Globe Makers.
Cartouche: LORING’S/ CELESTIAL GLOBE/ Containing all the known Stars Nebulae & c/ Compiled from the Works of/ WOLLASTON, FLAMSTED [sic.], DE LA CAILLE,/ HAVELIUS, MAYER,/ BRADLEY, HERSCHEL, MASKELYNE/ The Transactions of the/ ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY of LONDON/ &c. &c./ From Smith’s New English Globe/ Boston Josiah Loring, 136 Washington St. 1854
References:
Dekker, Elly and van der Krogt, Peter. Globes from the Western World. London: Zwemmer, 1993. pp. 126, 140, 176.
How to Use a Globe, Joslin’s Terrestrial and Celestial Globes/ Joslin’s Hand-book to the Terrestrial and Celestial Globes. Gilman Joslin & Son, Manufacturers and Dealers, 5 Mt. Vernon Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts: [n.d., but c. 1890], pp. 3-4.
Warner, Deborah Jean. “The Geography of Heaven and Earth,” Rittenhouse Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise, Vol. 2, No. 3. 1987. pp. 100-103.
Yonge, Ena L. A Catalogue of Early Globes, Library Series No. 6. American Geographical Society: 1968. pp. 37-38.