Colossal Terrestrian Globe Hand Painted, French, First Half of the 18th Century

French center table. Probably model of the cabinetmaker Jacob-Desmalter. With gilt bronzes an Belgian granite top. Early 19th century.   

Empire French center table i with ormolu and topedd with Tinos marble. Has a label that refers to Petit Luxembourg in Paris.  

With central arabesques inlaid brass and brass edge circular top supported by concave platform, decorated with bronze ending lions paw feet.     

With application in gilded bronze, topped in marble Noir de Belgique.     

Large terrestrial globe (diameter 19,75”), made of paper mache on a wooden structure. The large turned base is made of black lacquered walnut wood. Cartography compiled by engineer E...

!2 inch celestrial globe "The New Twelve Inch British Celestrial Globe". With a mahogany tripod base.

A magnificent and very rare early 18th century celestial table globe produced by Gerard and Leonard Valk. Established at the end of the previous ...

Celestial globe compiled on the Hesi & Gould catalogs by Eng. Pini and published in 1889 by Gussoni & Dotti Milano piazza del Duomo. Sphere in paper mache covered with paper printed by engraving on copper plate and hand watercolored, base in turned and ebonized wood. Good condition, conservative restoration at the base. Measures: Height 45 cm, inche 17.8, sphere diameter 22 cm 8.7. Giovanni Gussoni in 1874 bought the business of Antonio Ronchi typographer in Via Unione 5 in Milan, and then moved in 1883 to the shop of the Southern Porticoes in Piazza Duomo. Giovanni Gussoni was followed by his son Vittorio, who on April 16, 1907 sold the company to a collaborator, Giovanni Serra, who continued the business until November 1914. Man has always wanted to know the world in which he lives and has used all the means available to measure the space that surrounds him to expand his knowledge more and more. The conditions that allowed man to develop models of the world and space were probably realized only after...