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Click here to subscribeAN EARLY 20TH CENTURY PHILIPS EDUCATIONAL TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, London Geographical Institute, 15cm diameter with a brass half ring and mounted on a turned ebonised wooden stand, 28cm high Condition: some restoration to include a later varnish, some browning, small losses around the paper drawing, later washers
A Globe Wernicke mahogany two section bookcase with eight drawer base section, on plinth base, W.86cm, D.36cm, H.125cmCONDITION: The top section of the bookcase has a vertical scratch running through the entire length. There is marking below the metal knob handles through use. Overall good condition
An early 20th century silver cased bracelet wristwatch, the white enamelled dial with Arabic numbers to a manual wind movement; a silver cased wristwatch, with subsidiary seconds dial, lacking strap; two West End Watch Co Secundus wristwatches, (lacking straps); a marcasite set ring fitted with a watch compartment; a marcasite set pendant globe with compartment for watch fitting; and five various watch movements (11).
Original vintage film advertising poster for the 'Cronache Del Mondo' - Chronicles of the World, captioned '23rd One Thousand Miles, Coloured - Special Issue in Cinediorama, a G.L.M. Production.' This longer poster features a simple artwork with a cinematographer holding an Arriflex film camera pointed at a blue tinted globe. The 23. edizione Mille Miglia was an auto race held on a 992.332 mile (1597 km) course made up entirely of public roads around Italy, mostly on the outer parts of the country on 28-29 April 1956. The route was based on a round trip between Brescia and Rome, with start/finish, in Brescia. It was the 3rd round of the 1956 World Sportscar Championship. This race was won by Scuderia Ferrari driver Eugenio Castellotti without the aid of a navigator. The Italian finished 12 minutes in front of their second-placed team-mates, the English pairing of Collins and Louis Klementaski. Luigi Musso and Juan Manuel Fangio were next ensuring Ferrari finished 1-2-3-4. Very good condition, fold line, scuffs and paper loss on margins. Country of issue: Italy, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 70x33, year of printing: 1956
Original vintage French military recruitment poster - Engagez vous Rengagez vous dans les Armees Blindee des Troupes Coloniales Enlist yourself Enlist in the Armored Armies of the Colonial Troops - featuring a dynamic design depicting armoured tanks driving over the globe in blue and white with the Troupes de Marine / Marine Troops anchor logo in white on the yellow background, the Art Deco style lettering above and below. Part of the French Army, the Troupes de Marine was formed in 1622, named the Troupes Coloniales from 1900-1958; armoured tanks were first used by the French Army in World War One and the Armored Army / L'Arme Blindee et Cavalerie was formed during World War Two in 1942. Good condition, folds, foxing, pinholes, tears. Country of issue: France, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 55x45, year of printing: 1950s
Original vintage travel advertising poster: fur die ganze levante Adriatica Venedig. Great Art Deco image featuring an arrow with a line of flags passing over Italy on a globe with a ship on the horizon above. Good condition, creasing, staining and small tears in margin. Country of issue: Italy, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 100x70, year of printing: 1930s
Original vintage poster - KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Amsterdam Batavia 1/3 of the earth's circumference Twice weekly service - featuring the air route on a map of the world marked in red with other routes for corresponding connections and combined services, Imperial Airways and Air France routes, and railway and steamship routes through Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia and across the Indian Ocean with an image of a propeller plane flying towards the viewer above and the legend on the lower left with services and distances marked, the main title text in bold white lettering against the top and bottom blue borders with white stars against the dark background behind the globe. Batavia became a Dutch colony in 1619 and the capital of the Dutch East Indies from 1800; located on the island of Java the city was renamed Jakarta after gaining independence in 1949 and is the capital of Indonesia (Djakarta from 1942-1972; Jakarta from 1972). KLM (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij / Royal Dutch Airlines; since 1919) is the flag carrier of the Netherlands. Horizontal. Good condition, creasing, tears, staining, foxing, small paper losses. Country of issue: Holland, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 100x72, year of printing: 1934
Original vintage warning notice poster featuring a great design depicting a man holding up glasses to read the bold red warning text on a wall - Gare a la Peinture - while sitting on a paint pot dripping with red paint and marking his trousers, the French paints worldwide France Peintures s'impose dans le monde entier FP logo on a map shape of France against a red and white globe background above. RG Lyon France. Very good condition, folds. Country of issue: France, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 24x31, year of printing: 1930s
Original vintage warning poster featuring a great design depicting a smartly dressed man holding out a gloved hand dripping with paint over the bold red Art Deco style lettering - Gare a la Peinture - with the French paints worldwide France Peintures s'impose dans le monde entier FP logo on a map shape of France against a red and white globe background below. Creation Gougenheim Lyon France. Good condition, stain, folds. Country of issue: France, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 24.5x31, year of printing: 1930s
Original vintage Art Deco design travel poster issued by the Dutch shipping company Holland Africa Line featuring a great Art Deco design of a ship sailing towards the viewer against a yellow background with a route map on a globe of the earth in front of the calm reflective sea above the bold title text in blue and red shaded lettering. The Vereenigde Nederlandsche Scheepvaartmaatschappij (VNS) was a Dutch shipping company based in The Hague that existed between 1920 and 1970. In 1970, the VNS merged with several other Dutch shipping companies to form the Nederlandsche Scheepvaart Unie (NSU), known from 1977 as Nedlloyd. The VNS was founded on April 30, 1920 in The Hague as a partnership between the following Dutch shipping companies: Holland-America Line (HAL) in Rotterdam; Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland (SMN) in Amsterdam; Rotterdamsche Lloyd (RL) in Rotterdam; Van Nievelt Goudriaan (NiGoCo) in Rotterdam; Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij (KPM) in Amsterdam; Java-China-Japan Line (JCJL) in Amsterdam; Royal Dutch Steamboat Company (KNSM) in Amsterdam; Steamship Company 'De Maas' (Phs. Van Ommeren) in Rotterdam. Acceptable condition, staining, minor tears, rust marks. Country of issue: Netherlands, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 100x62, year of printing: 1930s
* Collaert (Adriaen, circa 1560-1618). Amerigo Vespucci on his ship, plate 3 from Americae Retectio (The Discovery of America), published by Philip Galle, Antwerp, circa 1598, copper engraving on laid paper by Collaert after Johannes Stradanus, with two lines of Latin text at foot 'Americus Vespuccius Florentinus portentosa navigatione ad Occasum atque ad Austrum duas Orbis terrarum partes, nostris oris quas incolimus maiores, et nullis antea nobis notas saeculis, aperuit, quarum alteram de suo nomine Americam mortalium consensus nominavit. An. Sal. M. IIID', trimmed to image, some minor marks and a few short tears and abrasions to top margins repaired with archival tissue and paper, sheet size 210 x 282 mm (8.25 x 11.1 ins)Qty: (1)NOTESHollstein 469. Sabin 92665. See R.V. Tooley, One of the Rarest Picture Atlases, Americae Retectio, 1592, The Map Collector, no. 2, March 1978, 22-24. The third of four plates from the first edition of Americae Retectio, commemorating the successive discoveries of America by Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci and Ferdinand Magellan. The engraved inscription reads: Amerigo Vespucci of Florence by a portentous voyage to the west and south opened up two parts of the globe, larger than the portion we inhabit, and not known to any before us, the second of which by the common consent of mankind had been called America after his name'.
Two Victorian silver mounted clear glass decanters, the taller by Hukin & Heath, London 1888, plain mounts in the manner of Christopher Dresser, the body wrythen moulded, 212cm (8 3/4in) high; the second with a pierced foliate thumbpiece to the flattened dome cover, the plain collar with beaded rims, on a globe and shaft body, 22cm (8 1/2in) high (2)
A late Victorian silver gilt mounted ruby glass claret jug by Elkington & Co., Birmingham 1891, with a bunch of grapes finial to the domed cover, a squeeze opening handle, meandering fruiting vine cage over the hobnail cut globe and shaft body, Condition Report: The glass has not been examined without the mount, but it appears that the mount may be covering some serious damage, there are some large chips by the collar, and another large chip under the handle at the top of the neck, some further small chips to the rim and facet edges. Sections of the meandering vine lackingCondition Report Disclaimer
PHILIP'S; an early 20th century 'Educational Terrestrial Globe' with printed manufacturer's mark and further inscribed London Geographical Institute, on turned mahogany circular base, approx 26 x 13cm.Additional InformationGlobe heavily stained, some losses to surface, slightly catching on the spinning movement, split to the base of the column, further scuffs, scrapes, abrasions and general wear.
Berry (William). [Composite atlas], London: sold by William Berry at the Sign of the Globe between Charing-Cross and White Hall, 1680-9, containing: 1. A Mapp of all the World. In two Hemispheres in which are exactly Described all the Parts of the Earth and Seas. Described by Sanson. Corrected and amended by William Berry, 1680, 2. Asia. Divided into its Principall Regions, 1680, 3. Africa. Divided according to the Extent of its Principall Parts, 1680, 4. North America. Divided into its Principall Parts where are distinguished the several States which belong to the English, Spanish and French, 1680 [i.e. c.1681], 5. South America. Divided into its Principall Parts where are distinguished the several States which belong to the Spanish, English, Portugals [sic], and French, 1680, 6. A New Mapp of the Kingdome of England and Wales, c.1685, 7. Spain … Portugal, 1682, 8. Italy, 1682, 9. The Empire of Germany, c.1685, 10. The Kingdom of Hungary, c.1685, 11. Poland, c.1685, 12. Russia Alba or Moscovia, 1682, 13. Scandinavia and its Confines, 1684, 14. The United Provinces of the Netherlands, c.1685, 15. The Catholick Provinces of the Low Countries, c.1685, 16. The Kingdom of France, c.1685, 17. The States of the Empire of the Turks in Europe, 1683, 18. The Empire of the Great Turke in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Divided into all its Beglerbeglicz or Governments, c.1685, 19. Mediterranean Sea divided into its Principall Parts or Seas, c.1685, 20. The Course of the River Rhine, c.1685, 21. The Circle of Swabia, 1685, 22. The Circle of Bavaria, 1685, 23. The Dukedom of Pomerania, 1685, 24. The Circle of Westphalia, 1685, 25. The Mountains of the Alpes, 1683, 26. Principality of Catalonia, c.1685, 27. Part of the Circle of Austria viz. the Archdukedom of Austria, c.1685, 28. Part of the Circle of Austria in which are the Dukedomes of Stiria … and other Heriditary [sic] Countrys of the House of Austria, 1688, 29. The Dukedom and Electorat [sic] of Brandenbourg, c.1680-5, 30. The Circle and Electorat [sic] of the Rhine, 1689, 31. The Archbishoprick and Electorat [sic] of Colen, c.1685, i.e. 31 engraved maps, each on two conjoined sheets (except Colen, on one sheet) mounted on guard, various sheet sizes (approx. 58 x 90 cm to 61 x 96 cm), strip-titles to head, titles and dedications within large elaborate cartouche incorporating royal arms and ethnographic and allegorical elements (Spain with title and dedication within separate cartouches), all except England and Wales with secondary cartouche containing bar scales and imprint, contemporary outline colour throughout (except Asia, uncoloured; Africa colouring with modern enhancement including to cartouche, North America, South America, England and Wales and Pomerania colouring minimal, now faded), variable toning, various nicks and tears, professionally repaired and consolidated throughout, most closed up without loss, sometimes with visible but generally light disruption, margins often extended or consolidated several maps backed on archival tissue, Empire of The Turks in Europe and The Empire of the Great Turke both with old linen backing (outline colour showing through), a few maps closely trimmed, many with creases, bound with (between 1 and 2): Moll (Herman), To Her most Sacred Majesty Ann, Queen of Great Britain, France and Ireland. This Map of Europe according to the Newest and most Exact Observations is dedicated, London: for H. Moll, D. Midwinter and T. Bowles, sold by H. Moll and P. Overton, 1708, and (between 13 and 14): Jaillot (Hubert), Le Royaume de Danemark. Subdivisé en ses principals provinces, tiré de plusieurs mémoires par le Sanson, Paris: Hubert Jaillot, 1692, each on two sheets, conjoined, with cartouches, contemporary outline colour, toning, creasing and repairs, modern full calf binding, gilt red morocco label to front board, atlas folioQty: (1)NOTESBurden II 532 (for North America: 'very rare'); Chubb p. 420; Shirley British Isles 1650-1750 p. 29; Shirley World 501; Tooley Africa p. 56 ('uncommon'); Tooley America p. 122 (for North America). A near-complete set of Berry's series of maps known as 'the English Sanson', 'very rare' (Chubb), and with Europe and Denmark, the only missing maps according to the list at the foot of The Circle and Electorat of the Rhine , appositely replaced with contemporary examples by Moll and Jaillot. Based on Jaillot’s Atlas nouveau (1674), a reworking of Sanson, they were published separately between 1680 and 1689, which may account for their high attrition rate. Berry’s version of the North America map is especially important, being the first or at least the second map to name Pennsylvania, which was founded on 4 March 1681 (Thornton and Seller's map appeared in the summer of that year). Certain features of Jaillot's map are retained, including the easterly slant to the Mississippi River, and the omission of Montreal, but there are notable differences other than the inclusion of Pennsylvania. 'Much of it is the anglicising of the continent, New England's boundaries being pushed to the St Lawrence River and New Scotland laying claim to all of the territory to the Gulf and Acadia ... Penn's main rival Maryland is not ignored and the town of Baltamore [sic] is identified. The southern claims of England are also extended with the inclusion of Charles-Towne and Carolina. In the west one notable addition is a Straits of Anian. The engraver of the map is not known although it bears many ofthe hallmarks of Herman Moll. If his work it would be one of his earliest known' (Burden). The world map exhibits similar changes: 'Berry has patriotically marked the islands discovered by Drake just off Tierra del Fuego and has added New Albion in the northern part of California, shown as an island' (Shirley; California is depicted in the same manner in North America ). North America is in Burden's first state (it was re-issued in 1718); The New Mapp of the Kingdome of England and Wales is in Shirley's first state; the Moll map of Europe was also re-issued c.1730 with a re-engraved dedication to Caroline, consort of George II.
* Globe. Klinger (J. G.), Die Erde den naust Entdeck, Nuremberg, circa 1850, a 45 mm (1.75 inch) miniature 'golf ball' globe, comprising 12 engraved gores with contemporary outline colouring, two iron pivot pins at the poles, slight wear and toning to surface, lacking original box but housed in a purpose made unvarnished solid birch box skillfully made to display and facilitate the 'spinning' of the globe, the box with brass hinges and clasp, supplied with an additional perspex stand which also displays and allows manipulationQty: (1)NOTESJ. G.Klinger (1764-1806) was an engraver and art dealer in Nuremberg who published numerous globes in varying sizes. The date attributed to this globe is posthumous because in the Southern Ocean there is the area of 'Wilkes' Land' which was not discovered and mapped until 1842 and the Island of Tasmania is still called Van Diemans land. The adoption of the name Tasmania did not occur until 1856.
A very rare early 19th century silver and silvered brass English striking spherical skeleton clockBarraud, Cornhill, LondonIn the form of a globe on a turned column set to the front with the letter S (for South), the three folding tripod legs each with a levelling screw to the top, the time read against a fixed gilt sunburst between twin horizontal revolving bands of Arabic five-minute numerals and twice I-XII Roman numerals, the horizon ring marked in degrees 0-180-0, the solid silver meridian ring with engraved signature, the twin gut fusee movement set within the lower half of the globe, the top plate intricately cast and skeletonised with visible rack strike work activating the hammer and bell to the underside, both spring barrels with pierced caps, the going train terminating in a horizontal deadbeat escapement to a 8.5 inch pendulum with lacquered rod and lenticular bob. 31cm high x 15cm diameter (12in high x 6in diameter) 31cms (12ins) high.Footnotes:Provenance: Sotheby's London, Important Clocks 3rd October 1991, lot 194.The first spherical skeleton clock is thought to have been devised and made by Henry Gratte of London in the late 18th century, see 'The Horological Journal', February 1951, page 94, a feature entitled 'Sphere Clock by Henry Gratte' which illustrates a similar clock with moonphase and perpetual calendar signed with the makers name and the legend 'Invenit & Fecit', denoting that he was the first to devise and make such a clock. The Gratte clock was originally in the private museum of the Earls of Buckingham at Stowe House. The contents of the museum were sold by auction in 1848, and the clock's current whereabouts is unknown. It would appear that Gratte supplied other makers with these clocks, including Horne & Ash (working 1808-1817), George Jamison (an example is illustrated and discussed in Derek Roberts, 'Skeleton Clocks', Woodbridge 1987 Figs 1/2 a to c.), and Paul Philip Barraud.Jamison and Barraud were well known to one another – along with William Howells they produced precision timekeepers based on the principles of Thomas Mudge until 1799. Another spherical clock by Barraud with additional world time chapter ring is illustrated in Cedric Jagger 'Paul Philip Barraud', Ramsgate, 1968 Fig XIX, a) and b). As far as we are aware, the current lot is the only extant clock with a solid silver signature arc.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A very rare early 19th century lacquered and silvered brass English striking spherical skeleton clockBarraud, Cornhill, LondonInspired by a globe on a turned column set on the three folding tripod legs each with a knurled levelling screw to the top, the time read against a fixed gilt sunburst between twin horizontal revolving bands of Arabic five-minute numerals and twice I-XII Roman numerals, the silvered horizon ring marked in degrees 0-180-0, the meridian ring with engraved signature (old repair), the twin chain fusee movement set within the lower half of the globe, the top plate intricately cast and skeletonised with visible rack strike work activating the hammer and bell to the underside, with manual lever to effect strike/silent acting on the fly, both spring barrels with pierced caps, the going train terminating in a verge escapement to a 8.5 inch pendulum with lacquered rod and lenticular bob 30cm high x 15cm diameter (12in high x 6in diameter). Together with the original winding key with extended shaft, and galleried stand 31cms (12ins) high.Footnotes:Provenance: Christie's London, Clocks, Watches and Barometers, 30 September 1992, lot 53See footnote on previous lotThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A 19th century French marriage throne 'Globe de Mariee', the gilt brass frame set with mirrors and purple velvet cushion, all housed under a glass dome and set on ebonised baseCondition ReportNo obvious damage or chipping to the globe. The seat is very worn . The base is worn in spots and chipped in others. Some of the gilt lining on the bottom of the globe has faded. See attached images.
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