English, c.1800, the engraved paper laid on mahogany table, trade cartouches Designed for the New Portable Orreries by W Jones, and Made and Sold by W&S Jones of 30 Holborn London. Graduated with days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac with names, signs and pictures, compass directions and degrees of amplitude and azimuth, table of principal affections of the planets dated ‚'Jany 1st 1794 Published as the Act directs by W. & S. Jones‚' giving details for each of the six planets nearest the sun for the year 1794, also with tables for the revolutions and distances of the satellites of Jupiter and Saturn, with a diagram entitled The Solar System with positions for each of the planets and dated from 1796 to 1810, the 1¬Ω-inch globe made up of 24 hand-coloured engraved gores, signed Bardin London with graduated equatorial, ecliptic and one meridian, Tasmania as a peninsula in New Holland, mounted with brass twilight pointer and held above an angled ring to alter the height of the ivory moon, a secondary ring graduated with the signs for the houses of the Zodiac, and a disc showing the phases of the moon, on multi-wheeled geared mechanism, at the centre the brass sun mounted on the central axis, with planet arms for the ivory Mercury and Venus, the mechanism driven by a cranked handle in original oak case with brass oil lamp which can be fitted as alternative to the brass ball sun, table diameter 32.3cm.
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